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Sermon #B692 - Your Latter
Will Be Greater Than Your Past
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Dr. Byrd: and if you have a
Bible, I want you to take them
and turn with me to the Book of
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Job. Job Chapter 8 is where
we're going. Job Chapter 8, and
I want to begin reading verse
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number one, Job 8:1, your latter
will be greater than your past.
Your latter will be greater than
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your past. The word of God says,
"Then answered Bildad the
Shuhite then said, 'How long
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wilt thou speak these things and
how long so the words of thy
mouth be like a strong wind,
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doth God pervert judgment? Or
doth the Almighty pervert
justice? If thy children have
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sinned against him and he has
cast them away for their
transgressions; if thou wouldest
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seek unto God the times and make
my supplication to the Almighty;
if thou were pure and upright;
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surely now he would awake for
thee, and make the habitation of
thy righteousness prosperous."
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Verse 7 is the clincher here,
"Though thy beginning was small
yet thy latter end should
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greatly increase." Let me say
that one more time, "Though thy
beginning was small yet thy
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latter end should greatly
increase." Your latter will be
greater than your past.
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Father in heaven, right now
we're about to go into your word
and we need your Holy Ghost
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right now. So forgive us of our
sins, cleanse us from those
things that are not right and
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pleasing in that sight. Lord, I
pray by the power of your Holy
Ghost that you stop the devil
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and his imps right now from
seeking entrance in this place
in the homes of your people
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wherever people might be, that
God, we might hear this word
this day, disappoint us not,
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hide us behind the foot of Jesus
Christ's cross. We promise we'll
give you the praise, God, and
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the glory for what you're gonna
do today. Thank you, Lord, for
hearing this prayer. Thank you
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for answering this prayer, and
thank you for this word we pray
today. In Jesus's name, amen,
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and amen. Your latter will be
greater than your past. Let me
start this way today - 2020 thus
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far has been a year that many
people want to forget. The drama
and the trauma that we've
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experienced this year has been
problematic, to say the least.
There have been 45 million
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Covid-19 cases worldwide with
1.2 million deaths. In the
United States alone, there have
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been over nine million cases and
230 million deaths and things
aren't going to get better
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because things are getting worse
with hospitals across the
country being at full capacity
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and there's another-- they're
expecting I should say 250,000
people to be dead by
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Thanksgiving. Not only that,
this year the Atlantic hurricane
season, there have been 28
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tropical storms with 11
hurricanes and four major
hurricanes, eight of these 28
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storms alone have hit the Gulf
Coast with 143 persons losing
their lives, but not only that,
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there have been over 47,000
wildfires that have burned eight
and a half million acres across
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North America this year, with
yearly half of this acreage
being in the state of California
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alone. In California, there have
been over 10,000 structures
damaged or destroyed and at
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least 31 deaths. The over 4
million acres burned in 2020 are
the most in a single year since
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California fire began keeping
records and more than the three
last years combined. But not
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only that, we've seen the
unmerited, unwarranted deaths of
Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,
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George Floyd and others which
have motivated the resurgence of
global civil rights activism,
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social justice engagement, and
the continued fight against
injustice, oppression, poverty,
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and racism. In 2020, we've been
through all types of issues, all
types of drama, all types of
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mess. We've had problems. We
faced trials. We faced
tribulations. We faced troubles.
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But in the name of Jesus, I'm so
glad that I know troubles don't
last always. I'm so glad to know
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that weeping may endure for a
night, but joy comes in the
morning time. I'm so glad that
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after the rain, the sun is going
to shine again. And I believe
that while 2020 has been an
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unforgettable, unremarkable,
unexplainable, problematic,
difficult trying year, I'm so
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glad today than my God's got the
last word and we've got two
months that what are you talking
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about, Pastor? I'm just
believing and I'm claiming that
in the final two months of this
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year, God is going to do some
amazing, incredible, miraculous,
and marvelous things because I
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just believe that sometimes
endings can be better than
beginnings and somebody's latter
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is going to be greater than
their past because if you can
handle tough times with faith,
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demanding times with patience,
dangerous times with trust,
racist times with justice,
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bigoted times with love, and
stormy times with confidence,
that God will see you through,
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then you better believe that
better day is coming after a
while. The life of Job
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illustrates this. The Bible says
that Job is a prosperous man.
Seven thousand sheep, 3,000
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camels, 500 yokes of oxen, 500
female donkeys, seven sons,
three daughters. The Bible says
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he was perfect. He was upright.
He was one who hated evil. And
don't hate on Job and don't hate
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on the modern-day Jobs of the
world because God has blessed
them. Somebody knows you can be
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anointed and affluent at the
same time. The Bible said it was
hard for a rich man to enter
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into the kingdom of heaven, but
the Bible did not say it was
impossible. You can be rich and
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godly just like you can be poor
and godly. Godliness is not
determined by how much you have
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but godliness is determined by
who has you. Are you hearing
what I'm saying? Satan suggests
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to God that Job will remain
might righteous as long as it
was profitably, financially
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profitable, I should say, for
him to do so. The Lord then
permits Satan to try Job's faith
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as long as Satan doesn't take
Job's life. You know the story.
Job loses his children, his
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servants, his livestock, he's
left with nothing. But the Bible
says in Job 1:22 that in all of
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this, Job sinned not nor charge.
God foolishly. So does Satan do?
Satan says to God, he says, look
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touch his bones, touch his
flesh, and surely he will curse
you to your face. The Bible says
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that Job is afflicted with boils
from the crown of his head to
the soles of his feet sitting in
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the midst of his ashes, Job's
wife tells him to curse God and
die but Job, he refuses to curse
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God. He holds on to his faith in
God because he knew that his
setbacks which is a setup for a
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comeback. Now the story says
that Job has three friends.
Eliphas, Bildad, and Zophar, and
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while he's going through it,
they all come to him. In the
time of need, they come to him
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with sensitive and sympathetic
hearts at first. The Bible says
in Job 2:13 that while they
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initially began their visit with
him, the Bible says it was seven
days and seven nights. No one
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said a word because they saw his
suffering was too great for
words. So they wept for him and
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they wept with him and sat
quietly with him as he grieved
the loss of his children, his
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livelihood, and his health. And
sometimes this is all a person
who is suffering or
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grief-stricken needs from you.
Listen to me good. Your presence
is all they need. They don't
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need sermons or opinions. They
just need a friend. They just
need a shoulder to lean on. They
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just need the presence of their
friends. Are you hearing what
I'm saying? No talking. No
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preaching. Just be there. Job's
friends are quiet. But the Bible
teaches they don't remain quiet.
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They began to share why they
felt Job was going through what
he was going through. Job's
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friends and even Job himself
adhere to a strict cause and
effect law of blessing and
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cursing. They believe that God
always blessed good people and
God always cursed bad people.
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Good people were never to suffer
and bad people were the only
ones who are to suffer and so
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the three friends felt that it
was their job to help Job admit
to whatever sin in his life was
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causing great suffering. Now
before we're too hard on jobs
three friends, it's true that
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there are consequences to sin
that caused suffering in our
lives and the lives of others.
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The Bible is true, you do reap
what you sow, but this was not
the case with Job. Conventional
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wisdom is not always right. We
can't always make sense of some
things that happen. We can't
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always explain the reason for
our suffering. Everything does
not always add up. Now when you
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read the story of Job and his
three friends - Eliphas, Bildad,
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and Zophar, they all were wrong
in their assumption that Job's
suffering was evidence of his
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life or in the case of Bildad,
Bildad said Job's children's
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lives without God. But there's
something in Bildad's response
that's worth noting in our
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sermon today. Bildad says in Job
8:7, "Although thy beginning was
small, thy latter end is going
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to greatly increase."
Hallelujah, somebody. That
should make you want to shout at
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home. Let me say that one more
time, "Although thy beginning
was small, thy latter end is
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going to greatly increase."
Understand Bildad is prophesying
right here, but I don't even
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believe he knows what he's
saying. Job is in a situation
that none of us would want to be
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in - no possesions, no position,
no family, no future. But
Bildad, with inspired insight,
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is able to prophesy, though
you're beginning was small,
though you might curse the day
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you were born, though you might
have lost everything, though
your wife might have turned her
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back on you and told you to
curse God and die, though the
friends who have come to visit
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you including Bildad himself
blame your sin for the
predicament that you're in, your
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latter is going to be greater
than your past. Now, you need to
know that in chapters 3, 6, and
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7 of The Book of Job, Job pours
out his heart and he cries to
God, trying to figure out why is
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all of this happening to me, why
me? But then in Job chapter 8,
Bildad with spiritual insight is
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able to declare, "Though your
beginning was small, your end
will increase greatly. Your
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latter will be greater than your
past," Let me tell you
something. God has a plan for
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your increase. I said God has a
plan for your increase and you
have to believe that it's the
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will of God for you to have
increase in your life. It's not
a curse. It's not a shame for
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you to start small. In fact,
most of us will start small in
life but God's will for us is to
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increase in life, and to
progress in life, you don't have
to settle for a small life. God
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didn't invest in you and your
redemption only to be expecting
a small outcome. God wants you
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to live your life to the
fullest, smallness is not his
plan for you. He wants your
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latter to be greater than your
past and don't let the devil
make you believe anything
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different. In fact, let me
remind you that the devil is not
your friend. The devil is your
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enemy and the devil wants to
play the motion picture of your
past continuously. Your past is
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designed to keep you down and
keep you where you are. But
friends of mine, if you press
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forward God already has prepared
your future in a way that you
can't even imagine. God has
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already prepared a future for
you that's going to blow your
mind. The devil can't stop God
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from working on your behalf. The
only one that can stop God
working for you is you and the
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devil will try to make you think
that you are powerless. He wants
you to think you can't change
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your past. He wants you to think
you can't change certain aspects
of your life but the devil is a
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liar. He lied to your mama. He
lied to your daddy. He lied to
your grandmama. He lied to your
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granddaddy and he's trying to
lie to you. He's the father of
lies, but I want somebody to
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know today you are not
powerless. You are powerful.
You're stronger than you think
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because while the devil has
power, you've got some power
too. Greater Is He that is in me
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than he that is in the world.
That's why Job was able to say,
Naked I came I in this world,
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naked I shall leave. the Lord
giveth and the Lord taketh away
but blessed be the name of the
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Lord all of the days of my
appointed time. I'm going to
wait until my change comes. It's
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not how you start but how you
finish. If you don't believe me
ask Job. If you don't believe me
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ask David, ask Rahab, ask
Samson, ask Peter, ask James,
ask John, ask Paul, ask the
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woman caught in the very act of
adultery, ask the woman with the
issue of blood, ask the
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Samaritan woman at the well, ask
Zacchaeus, ask Mary Magdalene,
ask the thief on the cross. Your
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latter would be greater than
your past. There are many
stories and many things,
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tidbits, and nuggets that I find
in the story of Job and this
single text, this one text in
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particular. But there are three
things I want to mention then
I'm gonna sit down.
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I shared them earlier in this
flow of the sermon but I want to
accentuate them right now.
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Lesson number one - you better
remember God's timing is always
perfect. I said God's timing is
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always perfect. God's never
early, God's never late because
he's always right on time.
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I remember the old folks used to
say all the time, "He may not
come when you want it,
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but he's always right on time."
I wish I had a witness in this
place. Our timing is not God's
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timing. For us, God's timing
often feels like a long
desperate delay, but delay is
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not denial. Are you hearing what
I'm saying? God's perfect timing
does two things, number one,
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it grows our faith as we're
forced to trust and wait on the
Lord; number two, it makes
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certain that God and God alone
gets all the praise, gets all
the honor, gets all the glory
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for pulling us through and I'm a
living witness today that God
will provide for your need. At
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the right time, God will protect
you. At the right time, God will
deliver you. At the right time,
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God will rescue you. At the
right time, God will restore
you. At the right time, God will
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save you at the right time,
which is his time. Number two,
God's ways are not always our
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ways. Isaiah 55:8-9, "Make it
clear that his thoughts are not
our thoughts. His ways are not
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our ways." Remember when I
repeated and said Jeremiah's
question earlier, why do the
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wicked prosper? Why does it seem
that the good folks lose out and
you can be a vegan but still get
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cancer? Remember I said that?
Well, God's ways are not our
ways. Remember God has an
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eternal perspective, God is the
great I Am. God knows the past,
the present, and the future and
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what do we know? Nothing.
Nothing compared to God. You see
let's break this down.
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If I were Jesus, when word got
to me that Lazarus was sick, I
would have healed Lazarus
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immediately. I would have healed
him right then but because Jesus
wanted to stretch the faith of
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his disciples who after Jesus's
death would be the catalyst to
take the gospel message of
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Christ to the entire world, he
waited four days. So now the
disciples knew that he had the
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power to heal people. They knew
that. But to heal a four-day
corpse that's taken faith to
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another level. If I had been
Jesus I would have just healed
the blind man in John Chapter 9
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by saying, "Your eyes be
healed," but Jesus didn't do it
that way. Jesus wanted the blind
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man, his parents, the Pharisees,
and he wanted us to know that
sometimes God's way of healing,
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God's way of bringing you out
may not be the way you want it
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to come out. Sometimes I've
learned in my life when God is
trying to bring you out,
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God does not bring you out
comfortable or classy. He does
not bring you out refined or
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polish. Sometimes you got to
have spit on your eyes.
Sometimes you've got to have mud
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on your face, sometimes you got
to be in a pig pin. So when you
do come out, you know, it wasn't
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your mama. It wasn't your daddy.
It wasn't the preacher. It
wasn't the church. It wasn't the
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children, but it was nobody
but Jesus who brought you out.
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If I had been Jesus I would have
just told the man in Mark
chapter 2 who was sick of the
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palsy whose friends had to
lowered him to the roof. I would
have just said, "Arise, pick up
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thy bed and walk," but Jesus,
no, no, no. Jesus said thy sins
be forgiven thee. Now, remember
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the scribes and Pharisees said
only God could forgive sin and
Jesus was guilty of blasphemy
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because he couldn't forgive sin
because he wasn't God, but
because Jesus was God,
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Jesus said thy sins be forgiven
thee. In fact, he actually said
what is easier to say,
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thy sins be forgiven thee or
take up thy bed and walk. Jesus
told the man what to do
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because he had already given him
the power to do it. God's ways
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are not our ways and knowing
God's ways are not my ways means
that I have to put all my faith
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and trust in his ways.
Last lesson - God always has the
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final say. Remember I told you
earlier in the sermon that God's
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got the last word. No matter how
bad the situation, thank you,
Jesus. No matter how impossible
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the situation appears, no matter
how awful you feel, no matter
how there appears to be no
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answer, no help, no hope, God
will see you through because
God's got the last word. You see
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friends, we put periods in our
lives where God puts commas. We
think it's over, period. Our
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jobs, period. Our families,
period. Our marriages, period.
Our children, period. Our
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health, period. Our futures,
period. The world put a period
at Jesus' death but God had the
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last word. Jesus died on Friday.
Jesus lay resting in the grave
on the Sabbath but early Sunday
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morning on the third appointed
day, God raised Jesus from the
dead and he's alive. Oh, death,
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where is thy sting? Oh, grave,
where is thy victory? The sting
of death is sin and the strength
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of sin is the law, but thanks be
to God who gives us victory in
Jesus Christ because of Jesus'
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death and the grave no longer
have the last word in our lives.
Jesus has the last word and
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because he lives, we live.
Because he got up one day the
dead in Christ are going to get
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up and then they're going to be
caught up together with them in
the clouds to meet the Lord in
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there, and so shall we ever be
with the Lord. This is the great
ending that God is planning for
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you. Oh, help me, Holy Ghost.
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I said this is the great ending
God is preparing for you. Not
fourteen thousand sheep, not six
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thousand camels, not 1,000 yokes
of oxen, not 1,000 female
donkeys, not seven sons or three
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daughters, but God for you have
a greater ending than even Job
enjoyed. God has planned for
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your eternal life. God has
prepared a house for you by
Jesus himself. Let not your
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heart be troubled. You who
believe in God believe also in
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me, in my father's house are
many mansions if it were not so
I would have told you I go
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and prepare a place for you. And
if I go and prepare a place for
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you, I will come again and
receive you unto myself that
where I am there ye may be also
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and that's why I sing because
I'm happy, I sing because I'm
free, His eye is on the sparrow,
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and I know he watches after me.
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So, excuse me if I get loud
sometimes. Excuse me, if I stomp
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my feet sometimes. Excuse me, if
I clap my hands sometimes.
Excuse me, if I lay down my
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dignity sometimes. I know I went
to college. I know I went to
graduate school but before I
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went to Oakwood, before I went
to Andrews, I went to Jesus and
He gave me joy that this world
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can't give and a joy that the
world can't take away and Jesus
told me that my latter is going
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to be greater than my past. So
coronavirus is here. Hurricanes
are here. Wildfires are here.
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Racism is here. A national
election is here. Drama is here.
Poverty is here. Unemployment is
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here. Depression is here. Fear
is here. But God told me to tell
somebody today that your latter
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will be greater than your past
and I believe that God is about
to do something big for his
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glory. Yes, 2020 has been rough,
but it ain't over until God says
so. Yes, 2020 has been tough,
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but it ain't over until God says
so. God's got the last word.
God's ways are not your ways.
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God's timing is not your timing.
God's way is perfect. 2020 may
be bad, but I sense something,
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I sense something about to
happen in November. I sense
mighty things occurring in
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December. The devil can only
have his way but so long God's
got the last word. Chains are
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going to be broken, addictions
alleviated, strongholds pulled
down, wrongs made right, a way
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out of no way. Something good is
about to happen. Somebody's
about to get a job.
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Somebody's child is about to
come back to Jesus. Somebody's
marriage is going to be
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restored. Somebody's cancer is
gone in remission. Somebody's
about to get a scholarship.
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My house note is about to be
paid. It's about to happen. Your
latter is greater than your
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past. So if I were the devil I
run up out of here. If I-- if I
were Eliphas, Bildad,
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and Zophar I'd look for the
closest exit. Why do I say that?
I say it all the time - cancer
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backup, coronavirus back up,
hurricanes back up, wildfires
back up, depression back up,
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fear back up, debt back up,
divorce back up, suicide back
up, poverty back up, mental
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abuse back up, physical abuse
back up, sexual abuse back up,
physical everything back up
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because somebody's latter will
be greater than their past. A
woman came to the pastor, told
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the pastor, "Pastor, it's been a
rough 2020. I've gone through
bankruptcy." He said, "Praise
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the Lord." She said, "I've gone
through a breakup." He said,
"Praise the Lord." She said,
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"I've gone through pain and
suffering." He said, "Praise the
Lord." She said, "Wait a minute,
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Brother Pastor, you're making
fun of me, you're making a
mockery of me. I told you I was
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going through bankruptcy. I told
you I was going through a
bankruptcy. I told you I was
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going through pain and suffering
and you're talking about praise
the Lord." The Pastor said to
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the church member. He said,
"Lady, I'm praising the Lord,
sister, because you said you
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were going through. But you were
not there to stay." I wish I had
a witness in this place and I'm
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here to let somebody know who's
right now watching you may be
going through it, but you're not
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there to stay. You need to
understand that God is going to
bring you through that thing and
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that your latter is going
to be greater than your past.
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I was diagnosed with Crohn's
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disease. When I was fifthteen, I
had my first surgery. When I
think about the time that I lost
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during my adolescent years, I
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togther. Even now I'm doing
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treatment for my disease.
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