Sermon #S025 -
The Purge - Part 2)
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Welcome to the Breath of Life
Television Ministries Broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell!
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In today's episode, Pastor Snell
will share Part Two of the
powerful message: “The Purge.”
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Now, lets go
into the Word of God.
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Pastor Snell: See, what God
needs somebody to know is that
you are to walk in the light
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that's being revealed because
what I have for you isn't going
to run out. I'm going to preach
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it till somebody gets it today.
Do you realize that there are
certain miracles embedded in the
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word just to teach us that God
never ever runs out? The reason
he takes them through forty
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years in the wilderness and so
he can send manna each and every
day so that they can learn the
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lesson that God never ever runs
out. In the forty years, their
clothes didn't tear because God
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wants them to know that I never
ever run out. In forty years,
their sandals didn't break
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because God wants them to know
that I never ever run out. When
God supplied the widow with oil,
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as long as there were available
vessels, guess what? The oil
kept on pouring because God
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never ever runs out. When God
fed the 5,000, he didn't stop as
soon as somebody got a piece,
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the Bible says that he didn't
stop the miracle until everybody
was satisfied. What God needs
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somebody to know is that as many
problems as there are, there is
enough supply for everyone.
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There's enough provision. There
is enough healing. There's
enough grace. There's enough
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supply because you serve the God
who never runs out. [
Congregation: Amen. Clapping]
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Stop bracing yourself. Stop
parachuting yourself. When is
the church going to stop having
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faith for the bad and start
having faith for the blessing?
Why do you anticipate drought
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and famine more than you
anticipate abundance? John 10
says, "I have come that they
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might have life and have it more
abundantly." Do I have at least
7 folk who are not just always
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waiting for the worst to happen
but do believe God opens doors
that no man can shut? That God
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will open up his hand and send
an abundance supply? That God's
grace is sufficient?
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[ Congregation: Amen. Clapping]
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Are you all hearing the preacher
today, friends? The word says
here in Numbers 14:29. You all
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tired? [ Congregation: No]
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Amen. I got a little ways to go.
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[ Congregation: Laughing]
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Numbers 14:29, watch this. It
literally says this. Numbers 14,
actually, in verse 26.
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When you get there, say amen.
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[ Congregation: Amen]
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No, actually, let me go back to
verse 19. So God says, "Pardon
the iniquity of these people.
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I pray." This is Moses praying.
"I pray according to the
greatness of your mercy just as
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you have forgiven these people
from Egypt unto now." Then the
Lord said, "I pardon according
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to your word, but truly, as I
live, the Earth shall be filled
with the glory of the Lord
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because all these men who have
seen my glory and the signs
which I did in Egypt and in the
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wilderness and have put me to
the test. Now, these 10 times
and have not heeded my voice,
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they will certainly not see the
land I swore unto their fathers
because they have rejected me
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who see it. But my servant
Caleb, because he has a, what? A
different spirit in him and has
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followed me, I will bring him
into the land where he went and
his descendants shall inherit
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it." Then verse 29 says, "The
carcasses of those who have
complained against me shall fall
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in the wilderness, all of you
who are numbered according to
your entire number from twenty
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years old and above." Third
thing this teaches us, friends
of mine, is this, is that purge
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is not punishment. I need
somebody to hear this, that a
purge is not punishment. It's
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how God preserves what he has
left. So go home, read all of
Numbers 14. See, when they
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initially rebelled, God's
initial response is he's like,
"I'm just going to annihilate
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the entire group." He says,
"Moses listen, I'm going to kill
them with plagues and I'm going
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to start and improve the nation
with you and your descendants."
But then what Moses does is he
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begins to intercede for the
people and he begins to appeal
to God on the basis of his
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reputation. He says it's going
to give a fodder to the enemies
of Jehovah. They'll have this
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testimony that he brought them
out of Egypt just to kill and
destroy them in the wilderness.
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So God says, "Okay, Moses, I'm
going to hear your word. I'm not
going to kill Israel, but I will
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purge Israel." Again, I need
somebody to get that the purge
is not punishment. He is trying
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to preserve what's left because
the purge is the guarantee that
somebody makes it into the
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promised land. [ Congregation:
Amen. Clapping] See, friends, I
need you to get that every
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portion of this judgment has
meaning and significance so that
when we read earlier what God
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says, I'm going to cut the line
off at twenty. He says these
kids that you are worried about,
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that you said I was going to let
die in the wilderness, I'm going
to take them into the land that
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you have rejected, and the
wondering is going to be for
forty years, a year for every
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day that you spent doubting the
Lord while you were spying out
the land. Are you all hearing me
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today, friends? Now, on the
surface reading of the text, it
actually looks like a judgment
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against old people, but that's
not what it is. The cut off line
is twenty, which means
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21-year-olds and 25-year-olds
and 27-year-olds and 30 years
old folk, my age didn't get to
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make it into the promised land.
See, God says, listen, listen,
the way I know it's not about
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age is he says, I'm going to
take Joshua, I'm going to take
Caleb, even though they're past
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that line because they have a
different spirit in them. See,
the reason some did not get in,
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beloved, it is not because of
how old they were, it's because
of how they think. In other
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words, what God is saying, there
is a mentality in Israel I've
got to let die. There is a
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disposition in the church that
has to perish. There is some
energy that's got a fall in the
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wilderness, there is an attitude
that I cannot let get into
Canaan. [ Congregation: Amen]
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See, friends of mine, I need you
to get this, as bad as God
wanted to take Israel into the
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promised land, He literally is
observing that not only have
they been in Egypt. The problem
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at this point is that Egypt is
inside of them. [ Congregation:
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Amen] See, there's a reason that
he cannot take them in this
spiritual state over into the
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land of Canaan because Egypt is
in them. If they put them in
Canaan, all they're going to do
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is rebuild Egypt in Canaan.
They're going to build Egyptian
temples and Egyptian idols,
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there will be golden calves all
over the new land. In other
words, if he takes them into the
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promised land, the new promised
land is going to be just like
the old cursed land. Friends of
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mine, this is why as bad as God
wants to save everybody, He
can't take unconverted folk. Oh,
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you're all mighty quiet today?
He can't take unconverted folk
into the new Jerusalem. He can't
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take unconverted folk into the
Earth made new because if He
takes unconverted folk into the
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earth made new, the new Earth is
going to look just like this old
earth, because if he lets those
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that have an untransformed
character, can you imagine being
in the earth made new and
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somebody's out there stealing
the golden blocks out of the
concrete in your driveway? [
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Congregation: Clapping] Are you
hearing what I'm saying? As much
as I spend, I don't spend very
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much time talking about hell.
Ain't talking has been a whole
lot of time talking about fire
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and brimstone. Why? Because
I ain't going. [ Congregation:
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Clapping] The one thing about
hell is that hell is the
guarantee that affliction shall
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not rise a second time. It is
the guarantee that life's
trouble will one day come to an
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end. You realize that when Jesus
comes again, the reason some
will not rise is not because
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Jesus has a problem with
gravity, some are literally
bolted to the Earth because
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that's where their affections
are. This life is going to be an
anchor that keeps some nailed to
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a perishing world. There is a
purge coming for the house of
God. See, what he's going to do,
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church? He's going to purge
everybody that doesn't have the
spirit of Caleb. The spirit of
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Caleb, my friends, is the
ability to see where God is
moving in the present. It looks
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like he's purging a certain age.
No, he's not cutting off just a
certain age, he's cutting out a
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certain spirit. He's cutting out
a certain energy. He's cutting
out those that are obstacles to
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progress. He's cutting out those
who are so set in their ways.
He's cutting out those that are
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always glorifying the past. He's
cutting out those who are
willing to go back to Egypt. He
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is cutting out those that are
like a rigid and dry set of
wineskins that is not compatible
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with the potency and the energy
and the life of the new wine. In
other words, he's got to destroy
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everyone that can't see where
God is moving right now. [
Congregation: Amen. Clapping]
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Before Christ comes, there's
going to be a purge in the
church. It's funny some of you
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are going to get mad, "We
thought God was going to purge
those that wore lipstick, we
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thought God was going to purge
those that went to the movies,
we thought God was going to
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purge those that ate cheese, we
thought God was going to purge
those that drink caffeine," but
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who he's gone purge are those
who are so stuck in the past
that they can't recognize God's
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power in the present. He's going
to purge out those that are
glorifying how the church was
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and they can't see where God is
leading it right now. [
Congregation: Amen. Clapping]
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It's why there are some in
churches that don't have 7
members that will literally let
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their church die before they
embrace a drum or an organ or
something that's going to bring
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life and vitality to the church.
There are churches, friends of
mine, where I go and there ain't
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nothing but 80-year-olds and
small children. The old folk are
there because they ain't got
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nowhere else to go, and the kids
are there because they have to
be there at somebody else's
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will. Are you all hearing what
I'm saying there today, friends?
Old school, where we
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disfellowship the girls that got
pregnant, and the boys that got
them pregnant became junior
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deacons and junior elders and
junior ushers. That's old
school. [ Congregation:
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Cheering] Old school says we
can't have women elders as
pastors, but you can have a male
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elder that's been married
twenty-seven times. As long as
he's a man and pays tithe, he's
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in good and regular standing.
Old school, you get condemned by
whether or not you eat chicken,
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but the Bible says it's not what
goes in the belly that defiles,
it's what comes out of the mouth
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that defiles. [ Congregation:
Amen] Are you all hearing what
I'm saying? God is saying some
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of that junk got to die in the
wilderness. We divide these
stupid camps in the church, old
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school versus new school, and we
debate like Republicans who are
conservative and don't want
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nothing to change. Then some are
like Democrats, they throw all
the standards out of the church.
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Some say, "Pastor, you're right
there in the middle." That isn't
my goal. My goal is not to be
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conservative or liberal, not to
be old school or new school, my
goal is to walk in the counsel
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of the scriptures. When you walk
in the word, new school's going
to get mad, old school's going
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to get mad because the Bible
doesn't agree with you. You've
got to align yourself with the
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word of God. Are you all
hearing what I'm saying today?
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[ Congregation: Clapping]
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What I'm saying, friends, as we
come out of this pandemic, guess
what? Church is supposed to look
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a little bit different. Guess
what? As we reform the church,
Sabbath school ought to look a
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little different. AYS ought to
look a little different. The
music ought to look a little
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different. Guess what? The
ushers ought to look a little
different. Why are we always
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trying to relive and revise
history? Because we're afraid of
the future. See, be careful how
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you revise stuff. It's just kind
of like when Donald Trump came
out with that slogan, Make
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America Great Again. There was a
visceral reaction from some of
us because we're like, "Who's
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America you're talking
about?" [ Congregation: Amen]
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We ain't trying to go back to
that. So when you're all talking
about making Adventism great
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again, there's a certain
generation that's like, "Oh no,
I know what God has brought me
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out of and we ain't going
back." [ Congregation: Clapping]
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See, Germany, this the problem.
See, the only thing we want old
school is the liturgy.
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Where's the old-school work
ethic? Where's the old-school
service ethic? Where's the
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old-school prayer ethic? You're
all going to get quiet on me in
here today. See, where's that
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church that used to go
door-to-door and house-to-house
and knock on doors and tell your
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neighbor about your faith. When
did evangelism become the
pastor's job? It's supposed to
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be the members' job. Each one is
supposed to reach one. We want
our hymns. Where's the prayer
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ethic? We opened up the church
on Wednesday night, where are
you at old school? If I call for
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a concert, we have to wrap cars
around the parking lot, but when
I call you to pray, where's the
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old-school work ethic. If I call
the church cleanup tomorrow
morning, it will be me and
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Malcolm, my wife. When she's out
of town, I'll be by myself in
this joint tomorrow. See, we
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want to hold on to the things
that are not consequential
eternally, but the work ethic,
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the prayer ethic, the spiritual
ethic, the commitment to making
sure our young people got to
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Federation and Congress and
sabbath-school. Where are my old
school parents at? Who said,
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"You're all got to get up
early." I got to stay late. I
got to drive him out of town.
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I'm not just going to send them
to church, I'm going to lead
them into the house of God?" [
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Congregation: Clapping] The only
thing we want is our liturgical
preferences. Where are my
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old-school deacons at? That came
to church even on the Sabbath
they didn't have to serve?
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See, the problem is we got too
many contractors in church.
Elders that only come when they
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own the program. Musicians that
only worship when they're on
this stage, but they're in the
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hallway the rest of the time.
We got too many contractors!
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[ Congregation: Clapping]
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Are you all hearing
what I'm saying, today?
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[ Congregation: Yes]
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We need committed sons and
daughters of God who are about
that ministry life where you
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serve outside of the eleven
o'clock hour. God says I'm going
to have to purge the house of
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God. See, we would call this an
old school. There's going to be
a shaking before Jesus comes,
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where God says, "I'm going to
sift the house of Israel so that
I can separate the wheat from
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the chaff." What I'm saying,
friends of mine, is we got to
get to a place where we drag the
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things from the past that matter
the most. Heart for service,
heart for prayer, heart for
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ministry. I'm talking about the
warm-blooded culture of the
church where I was not in good
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and regular standing just
because I sent my tithe. You're
in good and regular standing
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when you serve. [
Congregation: Amen]
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I'm ashamed that I even had to
make an announcement to get more
volunteers for the kids program
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because we can't be
bothered. "Oh, COVID, COVID."
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[ Congregation: Laughing]
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No, I'm friends
with you on Facebook.
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[ Congregation: Yeah]
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I just saw you at the
restaurant, at the game, out of
the country, at the concert, in
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the flippin club. Are you all
hearing what I'm saying? COVID.
The only thing COVID has stopped
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us from doing is serving the
Lord. There is going to be a
shaking. Matter of fact, it's
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already happening that some are
being slowly shaking out because
you ain't got no root in
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nothing. [ Congregation:
Talking Indistinctly]
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I need to talk to some of
my young adults. See, you don't
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realize, you're being shaken out
and you allow yourself to go
justified in the name of church
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hurt. Let me say it right
because some of us have suffered
real offense for which the
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leadership of the church owes
you an apology. That's not what
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I'm talking about. If every time
somebody didn't speak to you or
somebody said the wrong thing to
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you or somebody asks you where
you've been, if that's going to
run you out of the church, you
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ain't have nothing to stand on
in the first place. [
Congregation: Clapping]
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That's why Paul said to Timothy,
"You got to endure hardship like
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a good soldier. That's what John
the book of Revelation, let no
man steal your crown. I'm just
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out of place, friends. You can
go, you can leave. You all can
leave, but on Christ the solid
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rock, I stand. All other ground
is sinking sand, I dare not
trust the sweetest frame, but I
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wholly lean on Jesus'
name. [ Congregation: Amen]
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I want to say to the mature in
faith, when somebody's talking
about why they don't come to
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church because somebody didn't
speak to them or somebody did
them wrong or somebody hurt
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them, you know what I need
you to stop doing? I need you to
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stop babying them.
[ Congregation: Amen]
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I need you to stop impaneling
that and say at some point, "You
got to grow up in the faith."
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You know why the church is going
to always be an imperfect place?
It's because God lets everybody
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in. [
Congregation: Amen. Clapping]
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We don't check medical records.
We don't check your credit
score. We don't check your
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transcript. We don't check your
resume. The invitation is
whosoever will, let him come
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into the house of the Lord. You
can't shout over a God who
accepts broken people and get
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mad when you have to worship
with broken people. [
Congregation: Clapping]
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Young people, I need you to hear
me on this. I'm almost done.
God, before Jesus comes,
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He's going to take
you through some purging.
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There's some people God needs to
pull from your life to ensure
you make it to the promised
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land. Some of you all got some
anchors that are going to fasten
you to Egypt so that you can't
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get into Canaan. There's some
ways God purges you. One of the
ways God purges you is through
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rejection. [ Congregation:
Talking Indistinctly]
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Okay. I will shout all
by myself on this joint.
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See, the problem is you thought
rejection was about what was
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wrong with you, when you didn't
realize that God was just
preserving you from somebody
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that was going to keep you
anchored outside of the promised
land. See, there were certain
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folk that God knew you wouldn't
say no to them so God forced
them to say no to you. [
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Congregation: Amen. Clapping]
See, I'm at a place where I'm
old enough to say, Lord, I thank
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you for every click that won't
let me in. I thank you for every
girl that wouldn't go out with
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me. I thank you for those that
didn't want to be down with me
because I understand that
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sometimes, rejection is just
redirection. It is God leading
you to what he has for you. [
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Congregation: Amen. Clapping]
Sometimes, God purges you
through rejection. Sometimes,
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God purges you through
revelation. What do you mean
when you say that, Pastor? See,
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sometimes, when somebody shows
their behind, I know where I'm
at, we get mad when they show
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themselves, but see, when you
get to a certain place, you
don't get mad when they show you
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who they are. I'm just glad that
God made the serpent show his
fangs. I'm just glad I learned
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in enough time to make a detour?
See, don't get mad when they
betray you, when they walk out
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on you, when they stab you in
the front, when they stab you in
the back, it was just God
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keeping you from going too far
down that line and getting
committed with somebody that
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meant you no good. Sometimes,
God purges you through a
friendship drift. Yall didn't
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fallout, you all ain't got no
beef with each other. Ain't
nobody doing nothing wrong to
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each other. You all just came
back from the summer and you all
just went tight no more. And you
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didn't realize the invisible
hand of God was just pushing
them in a different direction
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and pushing you down the
straight and narrow way that
leadeth unto life. [
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Congregation: Clapping] Are you
all hearing what I'm saying
today, friends? A purge is not
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punishment, it is simply God
ridding your life of every
influence and everything that's
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going to have you fastened to
the outskirts of Canaan. There's
some of us that don't even
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realize what God is doing, and
we're complaining about how it's
going. I realize that a purge is
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not punishment. I thank God for
the purging times in my life.
See, purging is a form of
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deliverance. It is how he looses
the sons and daughters of God.
It is how he readies the church
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to fulfill its ultimate mission
of reaching lost men and women
with the good news of Jesus
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Christ. Hi. I'm Debleaire Snell.
Have you ever been in a place
where as soon as you start
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believing big, praying big and
thinking big, someone told you
that you need to be more
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realistic. It was unrealistic
for Jesus to say, I'm going to
lay down my life and in three
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days I'm going to pick it up
again. I would encourage you to
put down your commonly held
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beliefs. And it's time for us to
get unrealistic. (Breath of Life
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Theme Music) [END]
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