WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.680 precious name I pray the name above all names 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:06.259 y 'all say with me Jesus amen amen with love 00:00:06.259 --> 00:00:09.699 on the person next to him and tell him I'm so 00:00:09.699 --> 00:00:16.579 glad to see you in church today listen I am extraordinarily 00:00:16.579 --> 00:00:20.739 excited if you didn't get the news we are starting 00:00:20.739 --> 00:00:22.300 look at neighbor said we're starting something 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:27.929 new today We are starting a truth new truth collection 00:00:27.929 --> 00:00:33.329 today and I am I can say extraordinarily Excited 00:00:33.329 --> 00:00:38.250 about this one. I'm stirred up to the full to 00:00:38.250 --> 00:00:43.990 till it overflows, right and I'm gonna go ahead 00:00:43.990 --> 00:00:45.289 do that piece at the end. There was something 00:00:45.289 --> 00:00:47.210 I was going gonna do at the beginning But I'm 00:00:47.210 --> 00:00:49.130 gonna go ahead and reserve it for the end of 00:00:49.130 --> 00:00:53.609 the message But boy, I got a testimony to tell, 00:00:53.950 --> 00:00:57.549 and I'm so excited to tell it. But to this new 00:00:57.549 --> 00:01:00.189 Truth Collection, if you didn't know, we do two 00:01:00.189 --> 00:01:01.969 things here at Revenue Truth Ministries. We do 00:01:01.969 --> 00:01:05.189 sermon series and things we call Truth Collections, 00:01:05.310 --> 00:01:07.909 right? And you guys can turn to the book of Ephesians. 00:01:08.639 --> 00:01:11.819 And the sermon series are topical, right? So 00:01:11.819 --> 00:01:14.560 we talked about new life, new community. But 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:16.879 when we do truth collections, we like to just 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:19.799 pick out a book in the Bible and go line upon 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:23.140 line to see what God is going to do. And so God 00:01:23.140 --> 00:01:25.659 was saying, and so I'm excited. And I believe 00:01:25.659 --> 00:01:29.840 we should be able to get this book done over 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.840 the summer. But we are going to be studying the 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:38.870 Book of Ephesians over the summer. Oh, I'm so 00:01:38.870 --> 00:01:42.010 excited about it. And the subject matter is this. 00:01:42.109 --> 00:01:45.069 The title of this truth collection is I have 00:01:45.069 --> 00:01:50.109 a reason to praise. I have a reason to praise. 00:01:50.250 --> 00:01:54.870 Look, your neighbor said I have a reason to praise. 00:01:55.629 --> 00:02:00.349 And here's the truth, right? Many believers have 00:02:00.349 --> 00:02:04.969 fallen into a dangerous place, which is reactionary 00:02:04.969 --> 00:02:08.069 praise, which they're praising based on change 00:02:08.069 --> 00:02:11.310 and circumstances. They're praising based upon 00:02:11.310 --> 00:02:14.930 things shifting. But truthfully, as believers, 00:02:15.469 --> 00:02:18.289 our praise should not be reactionary. It should 00:02:18.289 --> 00:02:21.580 be a lifestyle. that we've been called into a 00:02:21.580 --> 00:02:24.419 lifestyle of praise. Matter of fact, the Bible 00:02:24.419 --> 00:02:27.500 teaches us that praise is important to God because 00:02:27.500 --> 00:02:30.699 it fulfills our intended purpose that you were 00:02:30.699 --> 00:02:34.159 created to praise, right? That praise is acknowledgement, 00:02:34.379 --> 00:02:37.960 it ushers in his presence, God's presence. Psalms 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:42.479 22 and three says, God inhabits the praises of 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.569 his. people and so it lets us know that praise 00:02:45.569 --> 00:02:47.610 isn't something that we should take casually 00:02:47.610 --> 00:02:50.750 but praise is something that we should take to 00:02:50.750 --> 00:02:54.069 heart that we should be people who praise the 00:02:54.069 --> 00:02:58.349 lord and so the title of um my message today 00:02:58.349 --> 00:03:06.590 is let's get loud let's get loud that by the 00:03:06.590 --> 00:03:08.830 end of this message, this series, your praise 00:03:08.830 --> 00:03:11.689 should go up a few decibels, right? That wherever 00:03:11.689 --> 00:03:13.650 you come in at, you should come out a little 00:03:13.650 --> 00:03:16.969 louder than the way you came in. And because 00:03:16.969 --> 00:03:19.509 here's the truth, right? Truth is when we praise 00:03:19.509 --> 00:03:23.569 the Lord, our hearts are drawn away from our 00:03:23.569 --> 00:03:26.590 afflictions and are set upon his presence and 00:03:26.590 --> 00:03:30.569 his mighty power. That praise draws your attention 00:03:30.569 --> 00:03:34.969 away from your. afflictions away from your problems 00:03:34.969 --> 00:03:38.770 away from shame guilt and condemnation and it 00:03:38.770 --> 00:03:42.229 reminds you of the power of God that the reason 00:03:42.229 --> 00:03:44.870 we praise is because we are in remembrance of 00:03:44.870 --> 00:03:48.669 the power of God that we understand what what 00:03:48.669 --> 00:03:52.930 God can do that's why praise is a lifestyle because 00:03:52.930 --> 00:03:55.610 I understand that God can always change what 00:03:55.610 --> 00:03:58.949 I think is unchangeable so I don't have to wait 00:03:58.949 --> 00:04:01.229 for it to change in order to praise the Lord 00:04:01.229 --> 00:04:05.270 I Praise the Lord because I know his power is 00:04:05.270 --> 00:04:09.030 available. I'm getting excited, right? But many 00:04:09.030 --> 00:04:11.789 believers, their praise is connected to what 00:04:11.789 --> 00:04:14.939 is going on around them. that's a grave right 00:04:14.939 --> 00:04:16.600 we've been talking about going from graves to 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:20.379 glory right that many believers that their praise 00:04:20.379 --> 00:04:23.620 has got to a place where it is connected to what's 00:04:23.620 --> 00:04:25.779 going on around them that if a door opens they 00:04:25.779 --> 00:04:28.480 praise them that when prayers are answered they 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.680 praise them that if situations change they praise 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.680 them but here's the truth our praise should be 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:40.000 a lifestyle not a reaction That we don't react 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.939 in praise. We live by praise. That we wake up 00:04:44.939 --> 00:04:47.079 in the morning, what we praise the Lord. Thank 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:50.620 you for waking me up today. That before you break 00:04:50.620 --> 00:04:52.939 bread, you say, God, thank you for this food, 00:04:53.339 --> 00:04:56.040 this nourishment to my body. That before you 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.720 go to sleep, God, thank you for this day. I'm 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.519 ending it with sound mind, with clarity of thought. 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:03.399 And I'm thankful that you're gonna wake me up 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:06.459 tomorrow. And we gonna do it again. But as believers, 00:05:06.459 --> 00:05:10.930 we are to praise. God as a lifestyle go ahead 00:05:10.930 --> 00:05:14.470 look at him say hey neighbor your praise should 00:05:14.470 --> 00:05:20.050 be loud too right because what is happening what 00:05:20.050 --> 00:05:22.629 what what happens when a person is struggling 00:05:22.629 --> 00:05:27.069 to praise God and I think it's important for 00:05:27.069 --> 00:05:30.370 us to realize that when a person is struggling 00:05:30.370 --> 00:05:33.629 to praise God it is evidence that your faith 00:05:33.629 --> 00:05:37.620 is shifting away from his presence and power 00:05:37.620 --> 00:05:42.100 being available. That when you refuse to praise 00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:45.199 God, you find it difficult to praise. It's also 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:48.579 indication that you are also losing hope that 00:05:48.579 --> 00:05:52.660 God can change you. And so I know sometimes people 00:05:52.660 --> 00:05:54.540 see people praising the Lord. They say they doing 00:05:54.540 --> 00:05:57.019 too much. No, they are heavily reminded of what 00:05:57.019 --> 00:06:02.500 he can do. That praise is evidence that I trust 00:06:02.500 --> 00:06:08.399 God. that I still believe in God and my trust 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:12.800 in him has responded in a praise you see. But 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.100 it is important for us to realize that if you 00:06:15.100 --> 00:06:18.199 see a believer who is hesitant, they just can't 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.569 open their mouth. They can't move their feet. 00:06:21.569 --> 00:06:24.490 They can't clap their hands, whatever your expression 00:06:24.490 --> 00:06:28.290 is But when that there is a difficulty or withholding 00:06:28.290 --> 00:06:30.310 and I'm not saying this as a person who hasn't 00:06:30.310 --> 00:06:33.430 been there before You know, I was the type of 00:06:33.430 --> 00:06:36.050 person that I was the one that said it doesn't 00:06:36.050 --> 00:06:39.430 take all that it just doesn't take all that but 00:06:39.430 --> 00:06:42.490 truthfully if I was being honest that that was 00:06:42.490 --> 00:06:47.790 me that was me trying to convince myself Of what 00:06:47.790 --> 00:06:51.189 wasn't necessary But the Bible tells us that 00:06:51.189 --> 00:06:55.470 our God is worthy to be praised I'm not saying 00:06:55.470 --> 00:06:57.910 you have to mimic somebody else I'm saying but 00:06:57.910 --> 00:07:01.209 over time you find how your praise is to go to 00:07:01.209 --> 00:07:04.589 God that Somehow some way he shapes a unique 00:07:04.589 --> 00:07:08.509 way that you praise him for what he has done 00:07:08.509 --> 00:07:10.889 But the thing I really want to say the thought 00:07:10.889 --> 00:07:13.290 that it doesn't take all that has to go away 00:07:20.430 --> 00:07:24.870 Because truth is our praise is not born out of 00:07:24.870 --> 00:07:30.829 a changed place, but a revealed position. That's 00:07:30.829 --> 00:07:33.930 what I'm saying, that the book of Ephesians finished 00:07:33.930 --> 00:07:37.069 show us how, no, no, no, you have a reason to 00:07:37.069 --> 00:07:40.569 praise. Because it's not about a change in position. 00:07:41.250 --> 00:07:44.290 It's a change in place. It's about a revealed 00:07:44.290 --> 00:07:52.819 position. I see who I am in Christ. Praising 00:07:52.819 --> 00:07:58.720 what I know about who I am in Christ I'm responding 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:10.560 to who I am But in Ephesians 1 to 1 Paul writes 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:17.980 this book While he is in prison That Paul is 00:08:17.980 --> 00:08:22.819 writing this book about praise while he is in 00:08:22.819 --> 00:08:27.779 a prison that his environment looks like a grave, 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:33.480 but the revelation he has still brings praise 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:39.519 out of him. Why you saying this is because that 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:43.080 shows this evidence that our praise shouldn't 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:47.419 be controlled or governed by our environment, 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:52.279 but our environment should be governed. By our 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:56.000 praise What are you saying that truth it is is 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.200 not the place that should govern our praise but 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:06.220 our praise that should govern the place We see 00:09:06.220 --> 00:09:08.200 this all the time any of you guys ever been out 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:10.960 shopping somewhere and you was there right about 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:13.820 when they closed and Then they turned the music 00:09:13.820 --> 00:09:18.519 off And it's listen you was it's like you was 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.860 having a shopping experience The music turns 00:09:22.860 --> 00:09:25.539 off and it's like everything shifted you ever 00:09:25.539 --> 00:09:28.759 felt that before it happens at many places But 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.360 when the music turns off, it's like it's over 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.039 like it's done. The atmosphere is gone What what 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:38.740 are you saying that? No, this is a reality That 00:09:38.740 --> 00:09:43.460 sound shapes atmospheres that sound sets the 00:09:43.460 --> 00:09:47.789 tone of how you embrace where you are That the 00:09:47.789 --> 00:09:50.789 sound matters where you are that when there's 00:09:50.789 --> 00:09:53.710 no sound there's often it's hard to maintain 00:09:53.710 --> 00:09:57.289 good atmosphere I'm gonna say it again that where 00:09:57.289 --> 00:10:01.549 there is no sound. It's hard to maintain a good 00:10:01.549 --> 00:10:06.830 atmosphere because sound governs atmospheres 00:10:06.830 --> 00:10:10.870 Sound can set the tone of an atmosphere Sound 00:10:10.870 --> 00:10:12.690 can let you know whether or not I should stay 00:10:12.690 --> 00:10:22.759 or go gunshots leave Violence, stay. Why am I 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:24.399 saying this? I'm saying because a lot of times 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:31.019 we walk into places as if they govern, as this 00:10:31.019 --> 00:10:35.419 place has authority over how it feels. No, you 00:10:35.419 --> 00:10:39.480 have authority through your praise. to shape 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.740 and govern every environment you walk into. That 00:10:43.740 --> 00:10:47.419 sound shapes the environment. You walk in there. 00:10:47.820 --> 00:10:54.080 OK. I'm getting ahead of myself. But just to 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.740 give you guys some understanding that the context, 00:10:56.840 --> 00:10:59.480 the emphasis, right? This is who Ephesians is 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:02.240 written to. It's a wealthy city. It's a spiritual 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.029 marketplace. It's a place. full of competing 00:11:05.029 --> 00:11:08.710 identities and false gods. And so Paul opens 00:11:08.710 --> 00:11:11.710 up this letter, right? He opens up this letter, 00:11:12.090 --> 00:11:14.230 letting know that the life of faith is not founded 00:11:14.230 --> 00:11:17.269 upon the pursuit of better behavior, but upon 00:11:17.269 --> 00:11:21.820 the unveiling of who you are in Christ. And so 00:11:21.820 --> 00:11:24.759 he begins that conversation to get them to move 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:27.519 away from what their environment is and start 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:31.240 to praise God as a result of what he has done 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:34.899 by reminding them that your faith is not founded 00:11:34.899 --> 00:11:38.419 upon the pursuit of better behavior, but upon 00:11:38.419 --> 00:11:42.159 the unveiling of who you are. That the foundation 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:46.720 of your faith isn't better behavior, it's understanding 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.750 who you. are when you forget that the foundation 00:11:50.750 --> 00:11:54.330 of your faith is who you are in Christ, you allow 00:11:54.330 --> 00:11:57.590 your behavior to shift how you feel about the 00:11:57.590 --> 00:12:00.169 state of your salvation. But when you realize 00:12:00.169 --> 00:12:03.929 that the foundation of your salvation isn't about 00:12:03.929 --> 00:12:07.090 your behavior, but what God has done, you have 00:12:07.090 --> 00:12:20.919 a reason to praise. Y 'all already ready look 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:24.600 at them say we already ready Pastor stop pumping 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:26.759 the prime priming the pump. Whatever way you 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:30.700 go. I Just want y 'all to know why we talking 00:12:30.700 --> 00:12:36.980 about this right now Because a lot of you guys 00:12:36.980 --> 00:12:41.480 are allowing circumstances to change dictate 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:11.820 See y 'all ready? It says Paul, an apostle, starting 00:13:11.820 --> 00:13:15.740 in verse one, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus 00:13:15.740 --> 00:13:21.919 by the will of God to the saints who are in Ephesus 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:26.620 and are faithful in Christ Jesus. He says, grace 00:13:26.620 --> 00:13:32.480 to you and peace from God our Father and the 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:36.220 Lord Jesus. Christ, that already right here in 00:13:36.220 --> 00:13:40.679 these first two verses, Paul is laying the foundation 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:44.100 of why they have a reason to praise. And it starts 00:13:44.100 --> 00:13:48.440 with the labeling of to the saints of Ephesus. 00:13:48.820 --> 00:13:52.580 He's letting them know that I'm calling you according 00:13:52.580 --> 00:13:56.059 to who you are, not where you are right now. 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:59.399 He says, to the saints. Look at your neighbor 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:05.190 say, hey neighbor, you are a saint. A saint is 00:14:05.190 --> 00:14:10.509 a holy one, one set apart and consecrated by 00:14:10.509 --> 00:14:14.070 God, that he's giving them their identity even 00:14:14.070 --> 00:14:17.049 in the midst of their confusion, that he's letting 00:14:17.049 --> 00:14:20.259 them know, I know that y 'all are. Serving false 00:14:20.259 --> 00:14:22.759 gods y 'all are doing things that God does not 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.059 approve of but to get your attention Let me remind 00:14:26.059 --> 00:14:30.559 you of who you are. You are a saint a holy one 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:34.919 set apart Consecrated by God that God chose you 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:38.860 he knows you he selected you he picked you and 00:14:38.860 --> 00:14:45.409 he's calling you a saint What are you saying 00:14:45.409 --> 00:14:47.710 that he's not saying to the successful ones to 00:14:47.710 --> 00:14:50.929 the perfect ones the ones who have it all together 00:14:50.929 --> 00:14:55.009 He is saying to the saints Now I'm gonna have 00:14:55.009 --> 00:14:59.509 you say this to yourself say I am a saint a holy 00:14:59.509 --> 00:15:07.549 one set apart consecrated by God Because truth 00:15:07.549 --> 00:15:10.590 is God doesn't name you according to your condition 00:15:10.590 --> 00:15:18.649 he names you according to his calling What are 00:15:18.649 --> 00:15:21.049 you saying, Pastor Brian? That they were in Ephesus' 00:15:21.230 --> 00:15:26.090 location, but they were in Christ, their identity. 00:15:27.169 --> 00:15:29.809 That as believers, we have to understand that 00:15:29.809 --> 00:15:32.909 we'll always have a physical location, but we 00:15:32.909 --> 00:15:37.269 have an identity everywhere we go. And our identity 00:15:37.269 --> 00:15:41.529 always supersedes our location. Hear what I'm 00:15:41.529 --> 00:15:45.129 saying. Your location never speaks to your identity. 00:15:45.509 --> 00:15:50.250 Your identity always shapes your location. That's 00:15:50.250 --> 00:15:52.470 why it starts with saying, you are a saint, a 00:15:52.470 --> 00:15:56.230 holy one, consecrated by God. Take that. into 00:15:56.230 --> 00:15:59.629 every environment you see, that you are holy, 00:16:00.269 --> 00:16:03.590 consecrated, set apart, and called by God. I 00:16:03.590 --> 00:16:07.009 know you are going to a foreclosure, but that 00:16:07.009 --> 00:16:10.870 foreclosed atmosphere doesn't change your identity. 00:16:11.370 --> 00:16:15.289 Walk in there as a holy one. consecrated, set 00:16:15.289 --> 00:16:20.850 apart by God, and watch you, your identity begin 00:16:20.850 --> 00:16:25.269 to shape this atmosphere. You responded differently 00:16:25.269 --> 00:16:27.350 to this than anybody else. I know, baby, because 00:16:27.350 --> 00:16:30.169 this is a blip on the radar. It's not my founding 00:16:30.169 --> 00:16:33.409 location. This may be a foreclosure today, but 00:16:33.409 --> 00:16:43.490 I know a God that can work things together for 00:16:43.490 --> 00:16:46.309 their good. And so although this is my present 00:16:46.309 --> 00:16:50.509 location, it hasn't shifted my identity of who 00:16:50.509 --> 00:16:53.889 I am. So although I shouldn't be praising because 00:16:53.889 --> 00:16:56.669 of where I am, no, I got a reason to praise because 00:16:56.669 --> 00:17:01.809 of who I am. Who I am is a reason to praise that 00:17:01.809 --> 00:17:06.259 it doesn't, I know I may show up. in some places 00:17:06.259 --> 00:17:09.539 have been through some things done some things 00:17:09.539 --> 00:17:14.200 said some things but those locations do not determine 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:22.099 who i am to the saints say it one more time i 00:17:22.099 --> 00:17:27.339 am a saint because there's the truth truth is 00:17:27.339 --> 00:17:31.640 your environment may describe where you are but 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:40.250 jesus defines who you are. And so I see a lot 00:17:40.250 --> 00:17:44.769 of believers right now. It's that midway point 00:17:44.769 --> 00:17:49.309 of the year. And you're thinking right now, I'm 00:17:49.309 --> 00:17:58.930 not where I thought I would be. I came to turn 00:17:58.930 --> 00:18:03.619 that devil upside down on his head today. And 00:18:03.619 --> 00:18:06.059 so you're thinking, not another year like this. 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:11.680 And where you are is trying to shift your sense 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:15.339 of what God can do. Where you are is trying to 00:18:15.339 --> 00:18:18.920 shape who you are now. It's trying to change 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.140 it. I thought I'd be further along. I thought 00:18:21.140 --> 00:18:23.460 this, I thought this, I thought this. We all 00:18:23.460 --> 00:18:29.519 had thoughts. And if we really wanna be transparent, 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:43.000 98 % of us aren't living what we thought It's 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:45.380 okay there's lots of churches in Tampa if you 00:18:45.380 --> 00:18:48.039 if this this is the one for the people that I 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:52.160 may not be Where I am, but I know who I am And 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:56.619 I want to take who I am and start to allow it 00:18:56.619 --> 00:19:00.660 to shape where I'm about to be though Listen, 00:19:02.740 --> 00:19:11.039 listen, listen. But no, like 98, I tell you all 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:12.359 the time, this is just not where I thought I 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:18.700 would be. I just never saw myself facing these 00:19:18.700 --> 00:19:21.660 circumstances, and I never saw, and I never saw, 00:19:21.740 --> 00:19:24.140 and I never thought, and I never could, and I 00:19:24.140 --> 00:19:26.359 never imagined, and I never this, and I never 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:39.220 that. I said, okay. what we not gonna do is allow 00:19:39.220 --> 00:19:46.460 that to shape who we are as a great description 00:19:46.460 --> 00:19:50.059 of how you got here but that ain't the fuel that's 00:19:50.059 --> 00:19:53.220 gonna get you from here no no no no no that's 00:19:53.220 --> 00:19:56.400 that's the thing that's gonna keep you here you 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.539 keep thinking about that you ain't moving from 00:19:59.539 --> 00:20:04.359 here you gonna have to shift how you are in order 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.660 to move from this location. I know you can describe 00:20:08.660 --> 00:20:11.980 to a T how you got here, but what you need to 00:20:11.980 --> 00:20:15.359 understand is how you don't stay here. And let 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:17.640 me tell you, this is how you don't stay here. 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:31.200 You start to remind yourself who you are. the 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:35.039 midst of it make some folks mad start them start 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:46.700 getting loud start get make a man but who does 00:20:46.700 --> 00:20:50.619 God say we are says we are chosen we are accepted 00:20:50.619 --> 00:20:56.180 we are covered by grace we are his possession 00:20:59.529 --> 00:21:02.849 Speak this over yourself. I'm chosen. I'm accepted. 00:21:03.210 --> 00:21:11.150 I'm covered by grace. I'm his possession. That's 00:21:11.150 --> 00:21:16.930 who I am. That's who I am. And who I am is about 00:21:16.930 --> 00:21:29.410 to shape and shift where I am. We've been talking 00:21:29.410 --> 00:21:32.670 about new life, new community. And this is where 00:21:32.670 --> 00:21:38.509 I want to really help us as a community. Because 00:21:38.509 --> 00:21:47.789 we have to help each other live this out. The 00:21:47.789 --> 00:21:52.750 truth is we must become a community that calls 00:21:52.750 --> 00:22:01.630 out identity before insecurity. We don't remind 00:22:01.630 --> 00:22:06.450 people of where they've been. We remind them 00:22:06.450 --> 00:22:12.930 of who God says you are. The moment one of your 00:22:12.930 --> 00:22:15.009 brothers and sisters start to get on one of them 00:22:15.009 --> 00:22:26.670 trains be like, who are you? I ain't ask you 00:22:26.670 --> 00:22:28.549 where you are and how you got here. I said, who 00:22:28.549 --> 00:22:37.509 are you? No, no, I know the story is a good one 00:22:37.509 --> 00:22:43.529 to tell. But if telling the story keeps you in 00:22:43.529 --> 00:22:49.569 this chapter, then we got to tell a new story. 00:22:54.329 --> 00:22:55.410 Why are you saying this, Pastor Brian? Because 00:22:55.410 --> 00:22:58.009 you'll never get up from something you've been 00:22:58.009 --> 00:23:00.529 knocked down from until you realize you have 00:23:00.529 --> 00:23:06.710 the strength to. Many people are sitting on the 00:23:06.710 --> 00:23:09.529 sidelines Because they don't recognize they have 00:23:09.529 --> 00:23:16.849 the strength to actually play Why are you saying 00:23:16.849 --> 00:23:18.549 pastor Brian because you know how many y 'all 00:23:18.549 --> 00:23:21.549 I talked to and You know what God has called 00:23:21.549 --> 00:23:25.329 you to do then you start telling me what you 00:23:25.329 --> 00:23:30.990 got to do to be qualified for How many y 'all 00:23:30.990 --> 00:23:34.319 in this room right now smothered and covered 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:38.259 With what you think you need to do in order to 00:23:38.259 --> 00:23:40.339 be qualified for what I actually raise your hand 00:23:40.339 --> 00:23:43.200 for a guy called I'm kind of as you call yourselves 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:49.140 out for what God called you to do Y 'all want 00:23:49.140 --> 00:23:51.079 here percentage I could I'm nice. Nobody's raised 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:57.960 a hand But from my conversations amongst and 00:23:57.960 --> 00:24:04.039 in the community it's 98 % of us We know who 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.559 God says we are. We know where God's called us 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:11.079 to be. We're just smothered, covered, and chunked 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:13.660 in the qualifications the world says we need 00:24:13.660 --> 00:24:16.859 in order to participate in the thing God said. 00:24:24.940 --> 00:24:28.059 Some of our reactionary thoughts aren't praising 00:24:28.059 --> 00:24:31.740 God. It's compiling the NIST of who we need to 00:24:31.740 --> 00:24:36.180 be in order to do what he said And all I'm saying 00:24:36.180 --> 00:24:40.160 is before you create that list Before you start 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:45.339 to pile up a list of things You have to be qualified 00:24:45.339 --> 00:24:48.579 in in order to do what God says first remind 00:24:48.579 --> 00:24:55.680 yourself I was chosen Accepted covered by grace 00:24:55.680 --> 00:25:10.099 For what he's called me to do Verse three, he 00:25:10.099 --> 00:25:15.859 says, bless be the God and father of our Lord 00:25:15.859 --> 00:25:21.839 Jesus Christ. Look at this, who has blessed us 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:28.019 in Christ with every spiritual blessings in heavenly 00:25:28.019 --> 00:25:35.890 places, even as he chose us, what, in him. before 00:25:35.890 --> 00:25:40.210 the foundation of the world that we should be 00:25:40.210 --> 00:25:49.049 holy and blameless before him in love What are 00:25:49.049 --> 00:25:51.390 you saying pastor Brian that he's letting us 00:25:51.390 --> 00:25:53.369 know that there are some things you have to realize 00:25:53.369 --> 00:25:58.170 that have already been done Before you start 00:25:58.170 --> 00:26:01.630 thinking about what needs to be done is that 00:26:01.630 --> 00:26:05.269 we live from the identity of what Christ has 00:26:05.269 --> 00:26:09.269 already done, that your strength for the race 00:26:09.269 --> 00:26:12.470 God has called you to sits on the foundation 00:26:12.470 --> 00:26:17.130 of who you are in Christ, not how qualified you 00:26:17.130 --> 00:26:21.730 are by this world. That when God speaks a word 00:26:21.730 --> 00:26:25.470 to you, he's expecting you to look at what he's 00:26:25.470 --> 00:26:29.910 done to get the strength to qualify and see yourself 00:26:29.910 --> 00:26:33.140 as qualified for what he said. That he's saying 00:26:33.140 --> 00:26:36.880 that when you hear me say, this is for you, child, 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:39.819 your next thought should be, I've been chosen, 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:44.059 set apart, called by God, I've been made blameless, 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:47.519 seen as holy, and given all spiritual blessings 00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:52.599 in heavenly places to get it done. I'm gonna 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:54.980 say it again, because some of y 'all missed it. 00:26:56.259 --> 00:27:04.769 God says, hey, I understand where you are. But 00:27:04.769 --> 00:27:08.410 I told you, you will be a lender and not a borrower. 00:27:10.470 --> 00:27:14.230 You say, you know what we say? God, I got a lot 00:27:14.230 --> 00:27:18.390 of debt. Wrong foundation. You're starting from 00:27:18.390 --> 00:27:26.809 your environment, not your identity. I want you 00:27:26.809 --> 00:27:30.529 to open up a restaurant. You know, it takes six 00:27:30.529 --> 00:27:34.539 months to get a permit. I got a bill due next 00:27:34.539 --> 00:27:37.940 month this time and ain't gonna solve my problems 00:27:37.940 --> 00:27:44.400 You're looking at your environment Not your identity 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:57.099 you're starting from a fractured foundation How 00:27:57.099 --> 00:28:04.960 should we put practice pastor Brian And this 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:07.519 is really, I just gonna say, make it plain. Because 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:09.539 really it's best when you get loud right in the 00:28:09.539 --> 00:28:17.420 midst. That unexpected letter shows up. There's 00:28:17.420 --> 00:28:27.640 been a miscalculation. You or us? Right there. 00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:32.700 God, you said I'm the head and not the tail. 00:28:33.220 --> 00:28:36.150 Above and not beneath. I'm blessed coming in 00:28:36.150 --> 00:28:42.750 and I'm blessed coming out. Now my environment 00:28:42.750 --> 00:28:50.230 says this, but my identity says I've been chosen, 00:28:50.490 --> 00:28:57.809 called, set apart, made holy, seen as blameless 00:28:57.809 --> 00:29:01.410 before you and have been given every spiritual 00:29:01.410 --> 00:29:06.890 blessing in heavenly places. so that I can experience 00:29:06.890 --> 00:29:17.230 every promise you've spoken. Y 'all rocking with 00:29:17.230 --> 00:29:24.069 me. And he's saying that's what starts to stir 00:29:24.069 --> 00:29:31.089 up our praise. Right in the midst. You hear the 00:29:31.089 --> 00:29:34.170 news, you get the report. You get the results. 00:29:34.490 --> 00:29:40.369 You see what is being said. But you never forget 00:29:40.369 --> 00:29:45.829 what's been said. Because we live from what the 00:29:45.829 --> 00:29:53.089 Bible describes as a finished work. We start 00:29:53.089 --> 00:29:57.609 our journeys from a finished position. We start 00:29:57.609 --> 00:30:02.420 our race from a it's already done position. We 00:30:02.420 --> 00:30:05.799 start every journey having already realized I 00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:10.259 have everything Necessary for what this journey 00:30:10.259 --> 00:30:14.819 is about to be So I'm not going into it seeing 00:30:14.819 --> 00:30:18.980 myself as insufficient I'm going into it seeing 00:30:18.980 --> 00:30:23.279 myself as full of what's necessary for what's 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:26.660 ahead of me Look at your neighbor one more time. 00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:32.660 Say hey neighbor I got what it takes Find somebody 00:30:32.660 --> 00:30:42.380 else say hey you you have what it takes It says 00:30:42.380 --> 00:30:46.240 you have been blessed not you're going to be 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:50.319 not it's coming not it's on the way not God's 00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:54.299 Considering it not possibly not when you not 00:30:54.299 --> 00:30:59.299 if this it says you have been blessed with all 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:04.359 spiritual blessings in heavenly places. That 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:08.339 you start with the mindset that I am full, I 00:31:08.339 --> 00:31:16.880 am flooded with God in heaven itself. Woo! Woo! 00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:29.000 Verse five says he predestined us for adoption 00:31:29.230 --> 00:31:33.849 to himself as sons through Jesus Christ according 00:31:33.849 --> 00:31:39.369 to the purpose of his will. I love this right 00:31:39.369 --> 00:31:43.710 here because it lets us know that God was determined. 00:31:44.750 --> 00:31:49.849 God was determined that God had a will. He had 00:31:49.849 --> 00:31:54.150 a design for how he wanted to see us exist in 00:31:54.150 --> 00:31:57.950 this world. And God was determined to see us 00:31:57.950 --> 00:32:02.180 exist. as we were created in this world, that 00:32:02.180 --> 00:32:08.119 God had a fixation, a desire to see me and you 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.960 operate at our full capacity in the midst of 00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:16.200 this world, that God was determined to make sure 00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:21.380 me and you started sufficiently full of what 00:32:21.380 --> 00:32:24.660 we need in order to be successful, that it was 00:32:24.660 --> 00:32:28.769 God's will. You gotta hear what I'm saying. It 00:32:28.769 --> 00:32:33.230 ain't your choice. It was God's will. It wasn't 00:32:33.230 --> 00:32:36.470 your behavior. It was God's will. It wasn't your 00:32:36.470 --> 00:32:41.170 prayer. It's God's will. God was determined to 00:32:41.170 --> 00:32:46.869 set you up for victory. It was in his will, his 00:32:46.869 --> 00:32:50.890 good pleasure out of his love, from his grace 00:32:50.890 --> 00:32:54.990 that you couldn't earn nor deserve that he gave 00:32:54.990 --> 00:32:58.640 you all. Spiritual blessings in heavenly places 00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.319 God was determined for you to wake up every day 00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:07.359 and realize I am full and flooded with God himself 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:12.339 So ahead of time before you chose him. He adopted 00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:15.220 you. You got to hear what Paul is saying He's 00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:19.099 saying you didn't choose this he chose you he 00:33:19.099 --> 00:33:21.819 called you out of darkness brought you into this 00:33:21.819 --> 00:33:25.259 marvelous light he He flooded you with blessings 00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:28.779 in all spiritual places. He then made you righteous, 00:33:29.140 --> 00:33:32.660 made you holy, made you blameless, set you apart, 00:33:33.140 --> 00:33:35.460 called you a saint, because He was determined 00:33:35.460 --> 00:33:38.660 for you to walk in this world, not living based 00:33:38.660 --> 00:33:44.259 on what it is, but on who you are. God was determined. 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:48.920 It was His idea. It was His pleasure. It was 00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:53.119 His design. You didn't choose you. He chose you. 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:58.680 You, woo, called you out, set you apart, then 00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:04.839 set you up. Woo, it was God. Look at you, understand 00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:22.409 what I'm saying? It was God. I got this thing, 00:34:22.429 --> 00:34:24.329 I was walking around all week saying this and 00:34:24.329 --> 00:34:28.809 look what the Lord has done. Woo, look what the 00:34:28.809 --> 00:34:32.309 Lord has done. Some of y 'all need to get yourselves 00:34:32.309 --> 00:34:35.289 a mirror, look at it and just say, look what 00:34:35.289 --> 00:34:39.489 the Lord has done. Look what the Lord has done. 00:34:39.610 --> 00:34:44.210 It wasn't me, it wasn't you, it was God himself. 00:34:44.460 --> 00:34:49.179 His determination, His choice, His pleasure that 00:34:49.179 --> 00:34:53.179 decided to send His Son to die a bloody death 00:34:53.179 --> 00:34:56.420 so that you wouldn't be judged by your sin, you 00:34:56.420 --> 00:34:58.980 wouldn't be condemned by what you've done, but 00:34:58.980 --> 00:35:02.260 that you would see yourself as holy, blameless, 00:35:02.820 --> 00:35:06.559 acceptable, and a well -pleasing before Him. 00:35:06.659 --> 00:35:11.460 It was His choice. It was His choice. Look at 00:35:11.460 --> 00:35:24.440 your neighbor say, I am. Who he says I am What 00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:29.699 you gonna do about this I don't know but I am 00:35:29.699 --> 00:35:34.860 Who he said I am I'm the head and not to tell 00:35:34.860 --> 00:35:37.800 above and not believe bless going in and bless 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:40.579 coming out I'm the lender and not to borrow. 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.679 I'm the heal protected my health I'm the peace 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:47.179 of God in every situation that shows up. I'm 00:35:47.179 --> 00:35:51.119 righteous. I'm chosen. I'm blameless. I'm holy. 00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:55.300 I'm set apart, consecrated, called by name. Whoo! 00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:25.250 That's who I am. That's who I am. That's who 00:36:25.250 --> 00:36:34.909 you are. Get yourself together. It's already 00:36:34.909 --> 00:36:51.050 done. And God wants us to start to see this as 00:36:51.050 --> 00:36:55.530 clear, as clear as we see this. from a physical 00:36:55.530 --> 00:37:02.809 position. Here's the thing. Amber's last name 00:37:02.809 --> 00:37:19.929 is Pope. Did she have a choice? I'll see what 00:37:19.929 --> 00:37:23.210 I'm saying. She ain't have a choice in the matter. 00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:32.480 And every once in a while, Amber will display 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:37.099 behavior that's not representative of her last 00:37:37.099 --> 00:37:42.739 name. And I'll look at her, and I'll say, pose, 00:37:43.219 --> 00:37:52.019 don't do that. Now, I want you to realize something. 00:37:53.139 --> 00:37:59.860 Even though Shaping her in the character of what 00:37:59.860 --> 00:38:03.920 her last name represents Just because she hasn't 00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:08.659 achieved The character of what her last name 00:38:08.659 --> 00:38:15.679 represents. It doesn't change You got to hear 00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.519 what I'm saying it doesn't change her last name 00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:24.860 It doesn't change her last name. She is a pole 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:28.960 when she act like one and when she doesn't, she 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:32.920 can't change her last name. She is not legally 00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:37.360 capable of changing her last name. She don't 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:40.239 have a vote in the matter, a choice in the matter. 00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:43.099 If she walked in today and said, Rashida and 00:38:43.099 --> 00:38:45.400 Brian, I don't want to be a poll no more. We'll 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:47.980 say, girl, you done lost your mind, but we ain't 00:38:47.980 --> 00:38:52.539 changing your last name. You were born a poll 00:38:52.539 --> 00:38:57.590 and you will Be a Po until legal situations happen 00:38:57.590 --> 00:39:00.989 and there is a process that transitions you, 00:39:01.269 --> 00:39:03.630 but guess what? The name don't go nowhere, it 00:39:03.630 --> 00:39:11.150 just slides. You came in this world of Po and 00:39:11.150 --> 00:39:14.010 you coming out this world of Po. You didn't have 00:39:14.010 --> 00:39:16.489 a choice in the matter and I'm trying to tell 00:39:16.489 --> 00:39:19.130 you that's the Confidence that God wants you 00:39:19.130 --> 00:39:23.550 to walk in recording your name and identity in 00:39:23.550 --> 00:39:26.170 him. You don't have a choice I know sometimes 00:39:26.170 --> 00:39:29.070 you don't act like it, but it doesn't change 00:39:29.070 --> 00:39:33.389 who you are You are not actually capable of changing 00:39:33.389 --> 00:39:36.989 it. You didn't wonder one that chose it He chose 00:39:36.989 --> 00:39:40.050 you you didn't choose to be holy. He made you 00:39:40.050 --> 00:39:42.630 holy you didn't choose to be blameless He made 00:39:42.630 --> 00:39:45.230 you blameless. You didn't choose heavenly blesses. 00:39:45.230 --> 00:39:51.719 He gave them to you The Bible says he poured 00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:55.820 it out upon you in his lavish love and a tip. 00:39:55.820 --> 00:40:02.840 I could run right now. I just want to run. Because 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:08.539 when I think about what God has done, you can't 00:40:08.539 --> 00:40:12.780 help but praise him. You can't help but praise 00:40:12.780 --> 00:40:29.260 him. Look, I got a reason to praise. I'm gonna 00:40:29.260 --> 00:40:34.820 stop praying here. But I just came to get y 'all 00:40:34.820 --> 00:40:37.619 stirred up this morning. Satan is not taking 00:40:37.619 --> 00:40:41.059 this year from us. I know we have all seen and 00:40:41.059 --> 00:40:43.880 been through a lot of things thus far. We've 00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:46.900 lost some people, but we haven't lost who we 00:40:46.900 --> 00:40:49.980 are. We have failed at some things, but we haven't 00:40:49.980 --> 00:40:52.760 lost who we are. We haven't been perfect at all 00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.280 things, but it hasn't changed who we are. We 00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:57.280 said some things and done some things, but it 00:40:57.280 --> 00:41:01.320 hasn't changed who we are. God is still determined 00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:05.159 to complete the work He started in your life, 00:41:05.179 --> 00:41:08.880 and He is the one that is faithful to complete 00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:28.650 it. God's not done, so we aren't done. in this 00:41:28.650 --> 00:42:03.590 book so that we can look at it. He's going from 00:42:03.590 --> 00:42:07.530 graves to glory. He's going from graves to glory, 00:42:07.829 --> 00:42:10.510 and God's not done yet. For some of y 'all, he 00:42:10.510 --> 00:42:14.630 ain't even got started yet. But don't you allow 00:42:14.630 --> 00:42:19.030 good doing to cause you to begin to doubt his 00:42:19.030 --> 00:42:22.610 power. No, no, let your praise represent your 00:42:22.610 --> 00:42:27.039 trust in him. Your praise is a sign that your 00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:30.099 faith has not shifted away from what he said 00:42:30.099 --> 00:42:33.579 But it is firmly planted in what he said your 00:42:33.579 --> 00:42:39.539 praise Will change the atmosphere You've let 00:42:39.539 --> 00:42:42.440 what has happened shape it enough. It's time 00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:50.679 to let what he's done Shape it now Well, I'm 00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:55.719 trying to go I could close everything I got up 00:42:55.719 --> 00:43:11.739 here. Woo! Look what the Lord has done. I wanna 00:43:11.739 --> 00:43:16.780 show y 'all something. I wanna show y 'all something. 00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:22.780 Boy, and I'm telling you. Yo, yo when I refer 00:43:22.780 --> 00:43:25.199 to me myself, I'm just just let y 'all know but 00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:29.920 um, yo pastor Oh, I got a lot of a lot of persecutors 00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:32.460 a lot of people say things and doubt a lot of 00:43:32.460 --> 00:43:46.659 things But this is what I know The race isn't 00:43:46.659 --> 00:43:52.679 given to the swift The race isn't given to the 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:58.179 strong, but into he that endures to the end. 00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:08.000 I only, not only do I know what God said, I know 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.320 how God said it should look. And you don't, there's 00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:15.679 nothing like the confidence and courage you get 00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:23.079 when you got both. Only do I know what God said 00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:34.420 I know how what God said should look I know what 00:44:34.420 --> 00:44:48.199 how God says should sound But I'm so godly proud 00:44:48.199 --> 00:44:53.230 of y 'all So godly proud of y 'all as a church, 00:44:53.889 --> 00:45:03.530 as a people. This week, what has been a three 00:45:03.530 --> 00:45:09.989 year spiritual battle, them walls came crumbling 00:45:09.989 --> 00:45:20.170 down. God told us to be absolutely determined 00:45:20.090 --> 00:45:26.510 determined not to be peripheral in the lives 00:45:26.510 --> 00:45:30.010 of this next generation, but to be integrated 00:45:30.010 --> 00:45:34.530 in the lives of this next generation, to not 00:45:34.530 --> 00:45:38.369 be no substitute, to not be the other thing, 00:45:38.469 --> 00:45:50.699 but to be the thing. And so it looked wild. At 00:45:50.699 --> 00:45:55.980 times crazy, even to me. Move a school into this 00:45:55.980 --> 00:46:01.099 building. When we gonna start this, I know what 00:46:01.099 --> 00:46:03.099 we need to start, but I also know what it needs 00:46:03.099 --> 00:46:07.900 to look like when it starts. And I refuse to 00:46:07.900 --> 00:46:10.619 see it ever represented less than what it was 00:46:10.619 --> 00:46:16.000 supposed to be. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:18.760 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:26.480 no. There should never be an asterisk on God's 00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:30.579 work. What's that asterisk? Oh, that's just the 00:46:30.579 --> 00:46:35.320 church. Oh, they're just Christians. And so that 00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:39.139 asterisk lets the quality go down, the presentation 00:46:39.139 --> 00:46:42.159 go down, that we say, you know, it was good for 00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:44.360 what the church is doing. Some of y 'all said 00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:46.559 that with your own mouths. It was a nice thing 00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:50.179 the church did, knowing it pales in comparison 00:46:50.179 --> 00:46:54.150 when stacked up against. what the world is doing. 00:46:56.849 --> 00:47:00.530 Just reveal the truth, can we just tell the truth? 00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:25.059 And I'm sharing this with you that I'm just trying 00:47:25.059 --> 00:47:27.760 to be sensitive to people too at the same time, 00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:32.480 but I want you to understand sometimes what the 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:35.139 journey looks like when you're doing what God 00:47:35.139 --> 00:47:41.719 said. People mad, people upset, people confused, 00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:46.639 all the stuff. Some of y 'all seen it too, the 00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:50.679 walls is dirty. When we gonna clean the walls 00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:52.829 in? Meanwhile, Deacon Frankie doing everything 00:47:52.829 --> 00:47:56.070 he can to paint the walls to keep them white. 00:47:56.610 --> 00:47:58.949 They came to me, the school came to me. Why can't 00:47:58.949 --> 00:48:00.789 we just paint them a different color? I said, 00:48:00.949 --> 00:48:02.369 because if it's a different color, we won't see 00:48:02.369 --> 00:48:05.110 when they messed up. The key isn't dark walls. 00:48:05.210 --> 00:48:07.230 The key is white walls that we keep training 00:48:07.230 --> 00:48:15.050 the kids how to keep clean. My dad told me when 00:48:15.050 --> 00:48:17.269 you can't do fancy, at least you can do clean. 00:48:18.230 --> 00:48:22.219 Clean. is capable clean is achievable for everybody 00:48:22.219 --> 00:48:24.960 and many people are asking for excellence while 00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:27.980 stepping over cleaning you got to do clean before 00:48:27.980 --> 00:48:33.539 you can do excellent can a church say amen I'm 00:48:33.539 --> 00:48:35.460 just trying to tell you how to live this word 00:48:35.460 --> 00:48:37.940 out I'm trying to tell you how you stand up and 00:48:37.940 --> 00:48:40.639 realize oh now that you know who you are your 00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:42.440 car shouldn't look like that your house shouldn't 00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:44.780 look like that you shouldn't look like that you 00:48:44.780 --> 00:48:49.690 should represent who you are I know some y 'all 00:48:49.690 --> 00:48:51.610 want to keep this in a spiritual place, but the 00:48:51.610 --> 00:48:54.369 spiritual is always there to get our physical 00:48:54.369 --> 00:48:57.210 together. Just take this as this. Amber, you 00:48:57.210 --> 00:48:59.869 are a poet. I'm telling you right, you are a 00:48:59.869 --> 00:49:08.670 saint. You are a saint, a holy one, consecrated, 00:49:09.050 --> 00:49:13.349 set apart for the purposes of God. That's who 00:49:13.349 --> 00:49:16.809 you are. I'm going to say it again. It just gets 00:49:16.809 --> 00:49:20.099 me stirred up every time I hear it. But you are 00:49:20.099 --> 00:49:22.139 in the same way I would look at amber and say 00:49:22.139 --> 00:49:24.739 you're a pope. I need you to realize this you 00:49:24.739 --> 00:49:31.219 are a saint a holy one consecrated Set apart 00:49:31.219 --> 00:49:35.059 made blameless made holy made righteous so that 00:49:35.059 --> 00:49:38.840 you could serve the purposes of an almighty God 00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:49.130 That is who you are That's who you are. No, Pastor 00:49:49.130 --> 00:49:51.250 Brian, no, no, no, no. Many of y 'all still trying 00:49:51.250 --> 00:49:52.789 to let your environment say who you are. No, 00:49:52.789 --> 00:49:57.409 no, no, I'm telling you who you are. And you 00:49:57.409 --> 00:50:02.309 start letting that identity shape your environment. 00:50:06.449 --> 00:50:09.210 Shake the way you talk, shake the way you walk, 00:50:10.030 --> 00:50:11.550 shake the way you keep your house, keep your 00:50:11.550 --> 00:50:15.590 clothes, keep your kids, everything, everything, 00:50:15.590 --> 00:50:20.510 everything. Your life is flooded and radiating 00:50:20.510 --> 00:50:26.809 with this glory. Whoo! So where people see you, 00:50:26.809 --> 00:50:32.590 they just notice something different about you. 00:50:35.309 --> 00:50:42.309 Yeah, there is. I'm a holy one. The same. Set 00:50:42.309 --> 00:50:45.289 apart. Called by God. You know, I have to do 00:50:45.289 --> 00:50:49.340 the whole run. consecrated I've been made blameless 00:50:49.340 --> 00:50:52.139 and holy I've been forgiven of all my sins yesterday 00:50:52.139 --> 00:50:55.280 today and the ones to come I've been I've been 00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:58.219 made righteous I've been invited into the courts 00:50:58.219 --> 00:51:01.579 of God I have an intimate relationship with the 00:51:01.579 --> 00:51:05.119 shaper and creator of the universe he knows me 00:51:05.119 --> 00:51:17.769 by name I can't get away from that. I can't get 00:51:17.769 --> 00:51:27.869 away from it. Whoo! Let that sit on y 'all for 00:51:27.869 --> 00:51:29.670 a minute. Just let it sit on you for a minute. 00:51:30.070 --> 00:51:33.289 That's who you are. That's who you are. That's 00:51:33.289 --> 00:51:36.469 who you are. That's who you are. That's who you 00:51:36.469 --> 00:51:39.369 are. Now say to y 'all, that's who I am. That's 00:51:39.369 --> 00:51:43.940 who I am. That's who I am. That's who I am. I'm 00:51:43.940 --> 00:51:46.000 a mess with y 'all. I'm not a Democrat. I'm not 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:51.300 a Republican. I'm a holy one. Because y 'all 00:51:51.300 --> 00:51:53.780 starting to argue over that again. When you're 00:51:53.780 --> 00:51:57.019 not even in that system, you're not even, you're 00:51:57.019 --> 00:52:04.059 not even. I'm saying stuff to you. Hear what 00:52:04.059 --> 00:52:07.320 I'm saying. They told us church and state can't 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.280 coexist. There is a whole state church, state 00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:16.809 school in our church. How'd that happen? Well, 00:52:16.809 --> 00:52:23.269 I'm a holy one called by God, consecrated, set 00:52:23.269 --> 00:52:29.010 apart for the will of Him to be done. He called 00:52:29.010 --> 00:52:32.170 me by name. I didn't even choose it. He chose 00:52:32.170 --> 00:52:36.400 me and blessed me and set me up. to say things 00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.800 and do things and to pursue things that would 00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:41.980 bring glory to his kingdom and shake this world's 00:52:41.980 --> 00:52:44.440 foundations that when the world looks at it they 00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.840 can only say look what the the lord has done 00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:49.780 because how did you get it done how did it happen 00:52:49.780 --> 00:52:51.940 this ain't even supposed to happen how did it 00:52:51.940 --> 00:52:54.199 happen how did it happen it's not supposed to 00:52:54.199 --> 00:53:08.019 happen but it's happening to get to it. Y 'all 00:53:08.019 --> 00:53:09.599 put up the photos. Y 'all put up the photos because 00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:12.039 we got evidence. Ain't nothing like some evidence. 00:53:13.420 --> 00:53:18.059 But right here, y 'all see the smiling faces 00:53:18.059 --> 00:53:20.360 on the kids faces on the kids because them ain't 00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:28.000 our kids. These are children from the community. 00:53:32.179 --> 00:53:38.210 Where they at y 'all? Look what it reads. Look 00:53:38.210 --> 00:53:42.949 what it reads. This summer, our Bulldogs have 00:53:42.949 --> 00:53:46.510 been enjoying an exciting collaboration with 00:53:46.510 --> 00:53:49.369 Revealing Truth Ministries through their Young 00:53:49.369 --> 00:53:53.789 Art Big Dream program. Together! We have created 00:53:53.789 --> 00:53:57.289 meaningful opportunities for students to explore, 00:53:57.630 --> 00:54:01.510 create, and grow through engaging, enriched experiences. 00:54:01.989 --> 00:54:04.710 From team building challenges and dance classes 00:54:04.710 --> 00:54:07.809 to arts and crafts and interactive games and 00:54:07.809 --> 00:54:10.469 creative activities, our students have been building 00:54:10.469 --> 00:54:13.570 confidence, developing friendships, and making 00:54:13.570 --> 00:54:17.409 unforgettable summer memories in fun, safe, and 00:54:17.409 --> 00:54:29.360 faith. Go show the other half. Environment, we're 00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:32.699 so grateful for our partnership with Revealing 00:54:32.699 --> 00:54:34.679 Truth Ministries and the Young Heart Big Dreams 00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:38.639 programs. This incredible collaboration has provided 00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:42.400 enriching experiences for our students and we're 00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:45.800 excited to continue bringing this same spirit 00:54:45.800 --> 00:54:49.559 of creativity, teamwork, and hands -on learning 00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:53.139 into the upcoming year. Thank you, Revealing 00:54:53.139 --> 00:54:56.789 Truth Ministries. for making this summer so special. 00:54:56.989 --> 00:54:59.809 Here's to an amazing school year ahead. That's 00:54:59.809 --> 00:55:04.829 not our post, that's their post talking about 00:55:04.829 --> 00:55:11.650 what the Lord has done. Listen, the kids were 00:55:11.650 --> 00:55:14.409 coming into the building saying, when do we get 00:55:14.409 --> 00:55:19.769 to be with the church people? Ooh, y 'all got 00:55:19.769 --> 00:55:22.880 to hear what's shifting spiritually. They came 00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:26.039 into the building saying, when do we get to be 00:55:26.039 --> 00:55:31.760 with the church people? These are summer school 00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:36.360 kids. They don't want to be here. But now they 00:55:36.360 --> 00:56:04.099 enjoy being here. Generations will speak of what 00:56:04.099 --> 00:56:09.199 that means. I just came here to tell y 'all, 00:56:09.699 --> 00:56:14.300 y 'all got a reason to praise. Tell y 'all thank 00:56:14.300 --> 00:56:20.199 you. Thank you for believing. Thank you for sowing. 00:56:21.099 --> 00:56:27.159 They came in, the teachers said, y 'all are giving 00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:38.230 them Real paint supplies We said Yes Blown away 00:56:38.230 --> 00:56:45.409 Blown away And what I love so much is God set 00:56:45.409 --> 00:56:59.239 it up in a way that he cannot be ignored I'm 00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:03.340 saying this because we've been going back and 00:57:03.340 --> 00:57:06.699 forward for over a year and some change of saying 00:57:06.699 --> 00:57:10.800 we need to get with the kids. And I want to be 00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:12.840 transparent with y 'all. Can I be transparent 00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:17.380 for a moment? I discern by the spirit that they 00:57:17.380 --> 00:57:25.260 were trying to use us in a moment to build them 00:57:25.260 --> 00:57:28.559 a playground. when what we partnered on was we 00:57:28.559 --> 00:57:35.519 was gonna do it together. But we not to be played 00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:46.380 with. My editing crew ain't in here right now, 00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:47.840 so I'm gonna tell y 'all the real truth, too. 00:57:52.039 --> 00:57:55.099 No, no, no, it's cool. I know how to keep it 00:57:55.099 --> 00:58:05.539 holy. I'm sharing these things with you, because 00:58:05.539 --> 00:58:09.340 I want you to realize what the fight often looks 00:58:09.340 --> 00:58:12.900 like. You're talking about a year and a half 00:58:12.900 --> 00:58:18.159 later. You're talking about promises made, not 00:58:18.159 --> 00:58:20.699 kept. You're talking about people saying stuff 00:58:20.699 --> 00:58:22.679 like, where is it? And I'm saying it would be 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:25.340 hard to explain, but we're using it as a bargaining 00:58:25.340 --> 00:58:29.599 tool. because we refuse to lay down and do something 00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:32.280 that would keep them from actually honoring what 00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:34.219 our commitment was. We said from the beginning, 00:58:34.420 --> 00:58:38.500 the only reason we're doing this is so that we 00:58:38.500 --> 00:58:46.659 can touch those kids. No touch, no playground. 00:58:51.059 --> 00:58:53.400 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no touch. No, 00:58:53.559 --> 00:58:57.679 this is system. All this stuff is just, no. We 00:58:57.679 --> 00:58:59.679 got, I'm just part that, what's it gonna say? 00:59:01.239 --> 00:59:03.440 Sometimes you gotta talk to people like this 00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:06.219 for them to understand. We're sitting down in 00:59:06.219 --> 00:59:08.340 the table right there. This is probably three 00:59:08.340 --> 00:59:14.340 months ago. And they're saying some things. I 00:59:14.340 --> 00:59:17.940 said, you know, y 'all have an interesting way 00:59:17.940 --> 00:59:20.880 of negotiating. They said what do you mean? I 00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:23.139 says for some reason y 'all choose to pick a 00:59:23.139 --> 00:59:26.260 path that continues to make me trust you less 00:59:26.260 --> 00:59:31.440 and less They looked up I Said now it's not none 00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:34.320 of my business But I wouldn't advise you practice 00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:36.400 this type of communication with anybody else 00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:42.420 outside this room, but I can tell you this I 00:59:42.420 --> 00:59:46.079 Will not return to this room. I'm done talking 00:59:49.710 --> 00:59:52.929 my little evidence over there. They was emailing, 00:59:52.929 --> 00:59:54.570 calling, saying all types of stuff for three 00:59:54.570 --> 00:59:57.349 months. I said, don't y 'all say a word back. 00:59:57.809 --> 01:00:06.690 Silence. What we gonna do about this? What we 01:00:06.690 --> 01:00:08.829 gonna do about that? We not doing nothing. We 01:00:08.829 --> 01:00:15.789 will wait and see what the Lord's gonna do. Where 01:00:15.789 --> 01:00:19.039 is this and where is that? Listen, this is what 01:00:19.039 --> 01:00:21.960 I do trust if you are if you see what God is 01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:24.719 doing and you stay prayed up and stop Stop listening 01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:27.320 to people and they stuff you'll see what God 01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:35.079 is doing But you can't be called by God and care 01:00:35.079 --> 01:00:39.619 about what with the comment section saying And 01:00:39.619 --> 01:00:41.360 some of the worst comments come from the people 01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:47.610 you care about you got to know that too Y 'all 01:00:47.610 --> 01:00:52.710 live this out. But you got to know who you are. 01:00:56.130 --> 01:01:04.849 Stay firmly planted. I know what he said. You 01:01:04.849 --> 01:01:06.570 don't look like something's going on. Why would 01:01:06.570 --> 01:01:14.760 I look like it? What type of faith are you? Are 01:01:14.760 --> 01:01:17.079 you talking about that we look like what we are 01:01:17.079 --> 01:01:24.539 going through? Why would I look like it? Of course 01:01:24.539 --> 01:01:28.199 I don't look like it. I walk around like everything 01:01:28.199 --> 01:01:55.579 is just how God wants it to be. We think we found 01:01:55.579 --> 01:02:04.239 somebody that will understand the vision that 01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:09.519 y 'all have. And so we gonna go ahead and do 01:02:09.519 --> 01:02:14.400 a rearrangement of the people that you've been 01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:19.360 dealing with. We have a whole new set for you 01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:23.780 to start dealing with. and they understand everything 01:02:23.780 --> 01:02:28.840 y 'all want to do. I said, all right, set up 01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:35.920 to meet, walked into the room, same room. Pastor, 01:02:37.340 --> 01:02:40.980 I already know everything y 'all want to do. 01:02:41.639 --> 01:02:48.219 And the answer is yes. I will work to get it 01:02:48.219 --> 01:03:03.250 all. If people change some things around, the 01:03:03.250 --> 01:03:06.789 answer was yes, but everybody is saying no, but 01:03:06.789 --> 01:03:09.309 as I was talking, I'm just talking to the wrong 01:03:09.309 --> 01:03:11.769 person. If the answer is yes and you saying no, 01:03:11.789 --> 01:03:14.610 I'm talking to the wrong person. It doesn't mean 01:03:14.610 --> 01:03:16.969 I'm doing the wrong thing or I'm pursuing the 01:03:16.969 --> 01:03:19.690 wrong thing. It just means either there's a new 01:03:19.690 --> 01:03:22.909 person coming or a shift is coming that you don't 01:03:22.909 --> 01:03:48.570 know about. to see what God called us to do again 01:03:48.570 --> 01:03:53.829 to birth and take root. I'm saying to you because 01:03:53.829 --> 01:04:00.409 I'm so proud of y 'all and you may not understand 01:04:00.409 --> 01:04:06.630 fully the significance of what you are a part 01:04:06.630 --> 01:04:12.800 of and how your contribution and support is changing 01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:18.000 a generation. I'm gonna do my best to let you 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:21.179 know without getting us into too much trouble. 01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:25.539 Because when they find out, y 'all know there 01:04:25.539 --> 01:04:31.639 is a day, and when they find out what is happening 01:04:31.639 --> 01:04:48.699 on 5201 North Armenia. so strong and secure in 01:04:48.699 --> 01:04:52.780 who we are that we don't change our speech, we 01:04:52.780 --> 01:04:56.539 don't change our tone, and we continue to gain 01:04:56.539 --> 01:05:01.820 more and more territory for the kingdom of God. 01:05:22.800 --> 01:05:38.219 Amen. Y 'all enjoy church today. New life. New 01:05:38.219 --> 01:05:48.900 life. So if you're today, you're not saved, or 01:05:48.900 --> 01:05:51.349 you're listening online, you're not saved. We 01:05:51.349 --> 01:05:53.769 would love to take this opportunity to introduce 01:05:53.769 --> 01:06:00.349 you to Jesus. Man, hopefully this message has 01:06:00.349 --> 01:06:05.050 shown you that there's so much that he has to 01:06:05.050 --> 01:06:08.409 reveal to you about who you are. And so if that's 01:06:08.409 --> 01:06:11.289 you today, you want to give your life to Jesus, 01:06:11.469 --> 01:06:16.110 submit yourself to his leadership. Man, just 01:06:16.110 --> 01:06:22.199 think about your father's business. in the house, 01:06:22.840 --> 01:06:24.739 join us in the first room on the left as you 01:06:24.739 --> 01:06:26.800 leave, and we'll tell you all about what it means 01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:31.780 to be saved, amen. At this time, we'll also receive 01:06:31.780 --> 01:06:37.820 today's offering, amen. As you guys know, we 01:06:37.820 --> 01:06:39.900 believe in cheerful givers here at Revealing 01:06:39.900 --> 01:06:42.820 Truth from Ministries, that as a man, purpose 01:06:42.820 --> 01:06:44.809 in his heart, so let him give, not give. are 01:06:44.809 --> 01:06:48.030 of necessity because God loves a cheerful giver. 01:06:48.369 --> 01:06:50.909 How do we remain cheerful about your giving that 01:06:50.909 --> 01:06:54.809 you allow God to communicate what you talk to 01:06:54.809 --> 01:06:57.150 you, tell you what to sow and in response and 01:06:57.150 --> 01:07:02.010 obedience to what God says to do, you sow. And 01:07:02.010 --> 01:07:04.090 so if God, whatever God placed on your heart, 01:07:04.250 --> 01:07:07.929 do it and trust that he will never lead you astray. 01:07:09.949 --> 01:07:12.750 Some people ask me and I will tell them, I was 01:07:12.750 --> 01:07:15.679 like, Because there's so much I don't know why 01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:18.420 I don't know why people be so confused And uh, 01:07:18.539 --> 01:07:20.000 so some people come and still do we still time 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:23.500 if I said, is that what god told you to do? It's 01:07:23.500 --> 01:07:27.500 the same response. What did god tell you to do? 01:07:29.940 --> 01:07:34.159 It's not hard and be cheerful about what he tells 01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:46.070 you to do Come on but a man I'm just thankful 01:07:46.070 --> 01:07:50.150 and appreciative that whatever God has laid on 01:07:50.150 --> 01:07:53.150 your heart to do that you do it. It most certainly 01:07:53.150 --> 01:07:56.590 gives us the ability to position, the opportunity 01:07:56.590 --> 01:07:59.269 to move forward the vision. That's amazing reason 01:07:59.269 --> 01:08:01.849 why I'm saying thank you. I asked you guys before, 01:08:02.030 --> 01:08:04.269 hey, can you sow into this kingdom offering so 01:08:04.269 --> 01:08:06.969 that we can make our camp free, so that we can 01:08:06.969 --> 01:08:09.230 do these things for free. And you guys sowed, 01:08:09.230 --> 01:08:12.190 that's how we were able to tell those kids that, 01:08:12.190 --> 01:08:15.500 no, it doesn't cost anything. that the paint's 01:08:15.500 --> 01:08:18.699 free, the food's free, all of it's free because 01:08:18.699 --> 01:08:21.840 there are people who love God, who love you. 01:08:23.720 --> 01:08:27.100 And so I thank you guys for giving us the ability 01:08:27.100 --> 01:08:31.899 to do that. It's what actually made it possible. 01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:37.640 And they just have never experienced a level 01:08:37.640 --> 01:08:40.659 of generosity like that. They don't know how 01:08:40.659 --> 01:08:44.149 to respond to the goodness of God. but I promise 01:08:44.149 --> 01:08:53.789 you it's a seed sown every time. Amen. I've already 01:08:53.789 --> 01:09:01.609 gone way over time, but it's okay. You know, 01:09:02.250 --> 01:09:07.270 we've been also, I know just to remind you guys 01:09:07.270 --> 01:09:11.770 that God told us to take this summer to understand 01:09:11.770 --> 01:09:14.840 how to function a multi -generational church. 01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:16.100 So that's why you see us doing the different 01:09:16.100 --> 01:09:19.079 things in worship, and we are saying, God, just 01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:22.640 show us how for us to coexist, right? We want 01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:24.939 to see the generations that Psalm tells us and 01:09:24.939 --> 01:09:27.460 Proverbs tells us, various works from one generation 01:09:27.460 --> 01:09:29.659 to the next. We're not trying to build a young 01:09:29.659 --> 01:09:32.020 church, and we're not trying to build a seasoned 01:09:32.020 --> 01:09:35.279 church. We're trying to build a multi -generational, 01:09:35.340 --> 01:09:37.760 His church. And so that means that we have to 01:09:37.760 --> 01:09:40.399 master how to do worship and how to do different 01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:42.000 things. And God told us to take the summer to 01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:44.090 do it. So that's what we've been doing. I thank 01:09:44.090 --> 01:09:46.489 you guys for being patient with that, right? 01:09:47.050 --> 01:09:51.029 Um, you know, so But uh god god get put a time 01:09:51.029 --> 01:09:53.109 frame. He said by august you gotta have it together 01:09:53.109 --> 01:09:56.069 So by august we'll have it together But I thank 01:09:56.069 --> 01:09:58.789 you guys for your patience as we um pursue new 01:09:58.789 --> 01:10:01.529 life and how we reach um this generation with 01:10:01.529 --> 01:10:03.829 truth Amen, but if you can stand to your feet, 01:10:03.850 --> 01:10:09.750 we will be dismissed Is there anything else I 01:10:09.750 --> 01:10:11.810 should be saying announcing? No, it's all good 01:10:12.039 --> 01:10:14.439 If it's all good and all hearts and minds are 01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:17.779 clear and full of faith, now unto him who is 01:10:17.779 --> 01:10:22.520 able to keep you from falling and to present 01:10:22.520 --> 01:10:27.460 you faultless for the presence of his glory with 01:10:27.460 --> 01:10:30.899 exceeding joy to the only wise God, our savior, 01:10:31.500 --> 01:10:38.220 be glory and majesty, man, in power both now 01:10:38.220 --> 01:10:40.119 and forever, amen.