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Sermon #B635 -Trust the Process
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Pastor Byrd: The Word of God
says to us in Isaiah 64, verse
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number 8, "But now, O
Lord, thou art our father;
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we are the clay,
and thou our potter;
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and we all are the work of thy
hand.” Today I want to speak on
the subject: Trust the process.
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Father bless us now. We give you
praise. We give you Hallelujahs.
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But now Lord in your word, we
need You to speak. So, make this
word relevant to your people
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today. And through this message,
that your people would hear your
voice. In the name of Jesus we
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pray, Amen. Now, if you're a
basketball fan, you know the
phrase, “Trust the Process,”
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has been made popular in recent
years by the Philadelphia 76ers.
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Now for those of you, who do not
follow basketball, let me give
you some background.
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For years, the 76ers were bad.
For years, the 76ers were awful.
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Cellar-dwellers in the NBA.
Worse record in the NBA. No
excitement since Dr. J.
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No excitement-- young people
y'all know who Dr. J is. That's
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all right. Before there was
LeBron James and a Michael
Jordan there was a Dr. J.
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No excitement since Dr. J. No
excitement since Moses Malone.
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No excitement since Charles
Barkley played for the 76ers.
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No excitement until the answer,
Allen Iverson has played for the
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76ers. And so in this process,
fans got weary. Fans got
discouraged. Fans got tired with
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the team. But in the midst of
turning the franchise around,
there was a gentleman by the
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name of Sam Hinkie, general
manager of the Sixers, who told
fans don't give up on the
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Sixers. It was going to get
worse before it got better. I
wish I had a witness in his
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place. So, those who follow
basketball know that for the
Sixers, even with high draft
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picks, it got worse. Even with
making trades, it got worse.
Losing more and more games. No
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excitement. No energy. Ticket
sales were falling. Empty seats
were everywhere in the arena.
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Fans were getting restless. But
Hinkie assured fans that there
was a reason that they were
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doing what they were doing.
He told them to be patient and
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trust the process. Some of y'all
know a gentleman by the name of
Joel Embiid, in his early years
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with the Sixers, the seven-foot
all-star center would always
repeat this phrase and say,
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"Things may look bad now. But we
have a plan to make things
better. Just trust the process."
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And if you follow basketball,
you know the process has worked
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for the 76ers because now
they're one of the best teams in
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the NBA right now, and have
their sights set on a
championship. Do I have a
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witness in his place?
[Congregation: Amen.] No one
likes losing. I know I don't. No
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one likes going through it. No
one signed up and said, "God
I'll be your spiritual guinea
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pig. Just take me through trial
and tribulation and in the
process, I'll be all right."
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In my 25 years of pastoring,
I have never heard anybody say
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that. But something that has
helped me, that I believe will
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help you, make it through the
process is the reminder that God
is the potter and we are the
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clay. And God is just molding
and shaping us into what He
would have us to be.
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One of the things I like
bit about being molded by God
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is the fact that I'm quite aware
of what God is doing with me.
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But I wish sometimes-- I
honestly wish that sometimes I
could be placed in some
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spiritual sedative state. And
then when I came to, everything
would be all right.
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I mean, I wish I could go to
what I call a spiritual coma,
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so to speak and just wake up and
become the best person in the
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world without going through all
the drama in life. Does anybody
know what I'm talking about?
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But life doesn't work
that way. God has to mold you.
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God has to shape you while
you can consciously see and feel
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what's going on. And this is not
easy but it's all a part of the
process. And in this process you
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have to trust God. In my study
of scripture, I studied this
analogy of the potter and the
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clay. It's one of the most
powerful analogies in the Bible
regarding the trusting process
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-- trusting the process because
when we understand the---
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the potter and the clay we will
better understand why God allows
us to go through what we go
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through and why he keeps
us conscious and aware in the
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process. There are several
things I've learned from the
potter and clay that I want to
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share with you today and then
I must sit down. Number one:
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Anybody will tell you, that when
you're making pottery, you need
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water. Before you can put a
piece of clay on an electric
wheel to start the actual
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molding process to make the kind
of pottery you want to make,
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you must first add enough
water in order to make the clay
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flexible, in order to make the
clay soft enough for you to be
able to bend it, stretch its and
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twist it. So, you can actually
use it. Are you hearing what I'm
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saying? Any potter will tell
you, if you don't add enough
water into the clay,
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the clay will remain hard and
rigid to be actually used. But
when you add water in clay,
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it makes the clay soft. It makes
the clay flexible so you can use
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the clay and make the pottery
you want to make out of the
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clay. Now, when we talk about
God being the potter and we are
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the clay, you must understand
that the water used in this
process is the Word of God.
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Water in the Bible is also
symbolic of the Word of God.
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Yes, I know in revival, we talk
about prophecy and we talk about
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Bible prophecy and Revelation
17:15 suggests that water
represents people but put
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another way, water can be
symbolic to the Word of God.
Ephesians 5:26 gives us that.
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It says, “That He might sanctify
and cleanse us with the washing
of water by the word
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which means the Word of God
is like water to our souls.”
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God, the potter, can't begin to
mold us, can't begin to
transform us, unless,
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we are first willing to get
in His word, read His word and
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study His Word. Too many people
don't know the Word of God.
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And what trips me out is when
I'm watching CNN or I'm watching
the news or ESPN and I see
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politicians, motivational
speaker, sports figures,
celebrities, teachers and even
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some preachers quoting passages
that they say are in the Bible
but they're nowhere in the word.
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I mean really, where is the
text? God helps those who help
themselves. It's not in there.
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Where in the Bible is the text
that God works in mysterious
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ways? It sounds like it comes
from the Bible but it's not in
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the Bible. God works in
mysterious ways is a paraphrase
of a 19th century hymn by the
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English poet William Cowper.
Where in the Bible is the
passage, “Cleanliness is next to
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godliness.” It's not in there.
That was coined by John Wesley.
Where in the Bible does it say
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that God helps those who help
themselves? It's not in there.
Benjamin Franklin wrote that.
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It's not in the Bible but I'm
learning and I'm getting
concerned as a 21st century
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cleric, that there are even
people in church who misquote
the Bible. What am I talking
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about? One example today, the
Bible never says that three wise
men visited baby Jesus.
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The Bible says that wise men
brought three gifts, gold
frankincense and myrrh.
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But where did you read in the
Bible that three wise men
visited baby Jesus.
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That's why you got to know
the word of God for yourself.
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I can stand up here and preach
till I'm blue in my face. But
you've got to get in the word
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yourself. You've got to read the
word at home. You've got to read
the word on your job.
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You've got to read the
word in your dormitory.
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You've got to read this word in
order that you might understand
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this process. You've got to read
the word in order that you might
become flexible enough
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to allow the potter to do what
he needs to do in your life.
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Just like potter can't use the
clay unless there's enough water
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to it. God can't do a thing with
you, until we get some water.
The word in us. God can't shape
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us. God can't bend us. God can't
stretch us. God can't mold us
until we get some word to water
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our souls. But the next thing I
learned from the potter and the
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clay, number two: After the
potter adds enough water into
the clay to make it soft and
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flexible, so now
it can start to work.
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The next thing the potter does
is he puts a piece of clay in
the center of an electric wheel.
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Now, this wheel has to
spin, and start to spin,
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so that the potter can use
his hands to start the molding
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and the shaping process with the
clay as it is actually spinning
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on the wheel. But if the piece
of clay is not properly centered
in the middle of the wheel,
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then the clay will eventually
tear apart before the potter can
finish the process.
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Somebody's not getting this. If
the clay is not properly
centered in the wheel,
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then the potter
can't work with the clay.
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The potter will not be able
to make the pottery he wants to
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make. And just like the clay has
to be properly centered in the
wheel before the potter can
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begin to mold and shape the
clay, we've got to be centered
in Jesus Christ before God can
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shape us and mold us. To be
centered in Jesus means that
you're under complete control,
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complete surrender that Jesus
has to be your Lord and your
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savior. I told people this week,
"A lot of us want to make him
savior but we don't want to make
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him Lord." Because when He's
Lord, we do what he tells us to
do. [Congregation: Amen.]
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We go where He tells us to go
in order for the potter to mold
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you, you got to let him be in
the center of your life. Now,
once the potter has added water,
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once the potter has put the clay
in the center of the wheel, we
now come to number three.
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The potter actually starts the
molding process with the clay.
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And what the potter first does
as the clay is spinning on the
wheel is, the potter takes his
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hand and he pushes down his hand
on the top of the clay to create
an opening in the clay.
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And once this opening has been
made-- listen to me-- at the top
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of the clay, the potter then
takes his hand and he goes down
deep inside the middle of the
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clay as the clay is forming. And
then he uses his hands to
properly shape the clay
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as it's building up during this
spinning process on the wheel.
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So then, the potter's hands are
working both on the inside and
the outside of the clay to mold
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the clay, to shape the clay, to
transform the clay into pottery
that the potter wants it to be
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as it continues
to spin on the wheel.
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But the potter can't make
pottery unless his hands go deep
down inside the middle of the
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pottery as the pottery is
forming. Somebody's going to get
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this in a minute. In the same
way God has to literally go deep
down, deep into the middle of
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our souls. He has to mold us and
He has to shape us and transform
us into the people that He wants
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us to be. In most
cases, however, this process is
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painful. It hurts. It's
uncomfortable because God's got
to remove all that stuff that's
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in us that's not like him. And
then He has to instill some new
stuff in us, so that we can be
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more like him. And remember when
the potter is molding clay, when
the Potter is shaping clay,
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the potter has to
apply some pressure.
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The potter has to apply some
pressure with his hands as he's
molding and shaping the clay.
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And just like the potter,
God has to apply some pressure.
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He has to apply some pressure in
order to get us to change and
become the people he wants us to
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be. And sometimes, it hurts.
Sometimes, it's painful.
Sometimes, it's uncomfortable.
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Somebody knows and I've learned
that sometimes you have to
almost lose your mind
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in order to change your mind.
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Sometimes, you've got to go
through something in order to
change your position, change
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your posture, change your
perspective, and removing toxins
from your life can be very
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painful because our flesh wants
to keep these toxins in our
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lives. So, in the process of
molding and shaping and adding
pressure to the clay, it hurts.
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I need somebody to
know it's going to hurt.
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When God is molding you, when
God is shaping you into what you
need to be, it's going to hurt.
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But you got to trust the process
because it's all a part of the
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process. But then I've learned,
number four. As the potter's
hands start to work inside and
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outside the clay, the clay
begins now to grow and expand as
it's on the wheel. The clay then
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gets bigger. And so the last
thing that the potter will do,
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number four, is he will take a
knife and he will start cutting
off excess clay that has
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accumulated on the pottery. You
all don't hear what I'm saying?
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And so the potter will cut this
excess clay as he's molding and
shaping the pottery on the
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spinning wheel, the potter
is smoothing out all the rough
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edges. So, the pottery turns out
complete and beautiful to the
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natural eye. And that's just
like God's in the cutting
process, in the pruning process.
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God is cutting out some stuff
that you don't need in your
life. God will prune out some of
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your friends. God will even
prune out some of your family.
Sometimes spiritually, you
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outgrow your friends. You
outgrow your family. God will
even prune out some of your
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co-workers. Some of your
employers, some of your worried
about your boss, God will prune
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out your supervisor. He will
make your enemies your
footstool. God will prune out
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some bad habits. He will prune
out some addictions and he will
break some chains in your life.
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He's the potter. We are the
clay. And he knows just what we
need and what we don't need.
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And this cutting, this
pruning, can be very painful.
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But you still got trust the
process and know that in the
short term, it may hurt,
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You all know how
we'll go to a restaurant
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and a server will come
and you will order your food.
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But before your food comes out,
at the restaurant you sit there
and you wait for the bread.
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The rolls to come out. Don't act
like y'all don't know what I'm
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talking about. Some of you all
just go to Olive Garden for the
bread, come on say amen.
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[Congregation: Amen.] Here you
are ordering. The servers coming
over thinking they going to make
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a big tip because the tip is
based on the total the bill. You
all don't hear what I'm saying.
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And here they come to your table
and you say, "I would like to
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have some soup. I would
like to have some salad.
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I would like to have some garlic
bread sticks and I would like to
have some water with some
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lemon." You all hear what I'm
saying. And the server says,"
That will be six ninety nine."
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You say, "That
sounds good, I'll take it,"
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because somebody knows sometimes
it's about cost and not comfort.
Do I have a witness in his
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place? But you sit there waiting
for the rolls to come out and
while you're sitting there
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waiting, the server --the waiter
he comes over and says, “The
rolls are in the oven.
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The rolls are rising and as soon
as they are ready, I'm going
bring the rolls out to you.”
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So, one day I'm in Olive Garden.
I'm in my corner in Olive
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Garden. Less you all take
pictures of what I'm eating, but
be assured it's eggplant
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parmesan. Come on, say Amen. And
I'm sitting next to the kitchen.
And I hear some rolls talking to
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me. The rolls start testifying
to me. I'm not crazy but
preachers can get a sermon out
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of anything. And they're all
said, "Carlton P. Byrd, I know
you're waiting on me.
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I know you really want me right
now but I'm in a condition. I'm
in unnecessary environments.
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I'm in the fire. I'm not like
anything else but I've been made
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from scratch. Somebody put their
hands on me. Somebody made me."
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Everybody repeat after me God
put his hands on me.
[Congregation: God put his hands
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on me.] Say God made me special.
[Congregation: God made me
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special.] The rolls say,"Byrd,
I'm just like you. I've been
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handmade. I've got something on
the inside that really doesn't
show up until I've been put
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through some heat." And the
rolls said, "Buddy Byrd, just
understand. Don't rush me.
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Let me stay in the heat because
something is happening to me
while I'm in the fire.
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That's on the inside is rising
to a new level. And don't rush
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me. But let me stay in the fire
because when I do come out, I'm
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going bless you. And I've come
to tell somebody, in the name of
Jesus, that I know you might be
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in the fire. I know you may be
in the heat but you better tell
somebody when I come up out of
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the fire, when I come up out of
this, I'm going to a new level
in Jesus." [Congregation:
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Applause] That's why you better
learn to thank God for whatever
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you go through. Because if you
never had a problem, Andre
Krauss said, "You would never
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know that God could solve them.
You wouldn't know what faith in
God could do.” Trust the
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process. Because he always has
his eyes on you. [Congregation:
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Amen.] He's watching
you. He won't leave you.
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Trust the potter.
Trust the process.
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When Daniel and I, lost our
first daughter 20 years ago, I
didn't sign up to be a spiritual
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guinea pig. But I've learned to
trust the process. I needed more
water. I needed more word.
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I had to keep Jesus at
the center in my wheel.
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I understood that do the molding
and the shaping that every now
and then, God will apply
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pressure. I had to understand. I
had to learn in my life that
sometimes, God's got to cut the
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fence. You've got to cut the
excess clay. But through it all,
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He never left me. Through
it all, he kept his eyes on me.
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I know there might be somebody
in this process who sometimes
feels God has left you,
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that God has taken
his eyes off of you.
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But you got to trust the
process. He will never leave.
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He will never
forsake you right there.
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[Congregation: Applause]
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[ENd]
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[MUSIC][Congregation: Cheering]
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Dr. Byrd: Our Miami
revival was a special treat.
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Truly the Holy Spirit was in the
place, as over hundred
individuals were baptized.
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One of these persons who was
baptised, was an old classmate
of mine; René Castillo.
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I hadn't seen René in over
thirty years, but when the
appeal was made for baptism,
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René surrendered his life
to the Lord, and was baptized.
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René: Every word that
man said, man it's just-
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Every time he opened his
mouth I would have an epiphany.
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Everytime he said something, I
already knew it but I had buried
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it. That it was like - almost
like relearning it and I'm like,
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I know that. I
know that.  I know that.
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He did say something, and it's
been going over and over in my
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head. He says-- Lord I hide your
word in my heart, so that I
don't sin against you.
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[Sobbing]
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I feel grateful because
I brought one of my sons--
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for two days and he actually
enjoyed it. I didn't want to
push it on him you know?
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It is my responsiblity,
according to word of God, to be
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the leader-- the spiritual
leader of my household; and I
have not done that.
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Dr. Byrd: I am so grateful,
that René had the opportunity
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to renew his
relationship with the Lord.
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René's story makes us mindful,
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that the work of evangelism
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