Sermon #S036 - Size
Doesn't Matter- (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 continue part two of the
powerful Message entitled: “Size
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Doesn't Matter.” Now, let's
go deeper into the word of God!
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Pastor Snell: And it's funny
because I need somebody to know
that you will always struggle
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with faith if you only celebrate
your personal victories.
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See, you'll miss 95% of the
mercies and miracles of God if
you only focus on how God is
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blessing you. Are y'all with me
today? See, remember I already
told you that the disciples are
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in the privileged boat. They've
got Jesus in the boat with them.
So if anybody should have been
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tripping, it should not have
been them. They're in the boat,
they can see Jesus, the ones
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that should have been nervous
and say, master, don't you care
that we perish are those that
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are in the small boats. Now you
need to get that this storm is
growing progressively worse.
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It is intensifying
as the night goes on.
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But one of the things that the
disciples should have taken note
of is that all night long
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whenever the lightning flashed,
they could look over and notice
that not a single little boat
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has been lost. Okay, y'all still
hadn't here got here with me
yet. In other words, every time
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they look over, I don't know how
many boats left with them from
the other side. I don't know if
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it was 50 boats or if it was 30
boats, but every time they look
over the side, all those little
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boats Are still above water.
See, it would've been one thing.
I could have understood them
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being afraid if they leave with
20 boats and after one hour it's
17 boats after two hours, it's
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12 boats after three hours, it's
seven boats after four hours,
they're the last boat standing.
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I would be afraid if all the
other ships have been taken out
and we are the last ones
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standing. But they should have
got some strength when they
looked over and saw that God
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sustained the tiny boats at nine
and at midnight and two in the
morning. And they should have
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come to the conclusion that if
Jesus is keeping those in the
small boats, then God is able to
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keep me from going under. Are
y'all hearing me today, friends?
And see this is why Paul in the
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letter to the church at Rome
teaches us to rejoice with those
who rejoice and mourn with those
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who mourn. And see, I need you
to know, beloved, that when you
rejoice when those who rejoice
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and you mourn with those who
mourn, something powerful
happens. So that when I mourn
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with those who mourn, I give
strength to those who are
grieving. But when I rejoice to
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those who are rejoicing, I draw
strength from those who are
rejoicing. In other words,
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friends, I need you to
understand that when God blesses
you, there is no blessing that
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God sent just to you. [
Congregation: Alright] Oh, help
me Holy Ghost. See how many of
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us understand that every
blessing that is given is given
not just to you. It is given as
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an asset to the body. See,
that's why Revelation 12 says
that they overcome by the blood
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of the lamb and by the word of
their testimony. Are y'all
hearing me today? And see, and
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this is why we've got a function
not just as spectators in
worship but as a community or as
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a body of believers because
guess what? We can draw strength
from one another when we are
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weak. And guess what? Our
strength can give strength to
the weak. Oh, y'all hearing me
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today, friends? See that's how
our body is supposed to work. So
that just the same way the
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physical body works, the
spiritual body is supposed to
operate in the same way. So the
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same way when I'm going through
the darkness at night and I stub
my little toe, guess what, man
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there is ringing in my hands and
in my head because what affects
the tiny part of the body? I
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feel it in the rest of my body.
And in the same way, when I eat
something that is good and
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tasteful to the buds, guess
what? My entire body responds
with joy. Why? Because width
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affects one part of the body,
affects the entire part of the
body. And see the reason the 12
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are tripping is because they're
functioning as every man for
himself. They are disconnected
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from everyone else. But see, if
they got to a place where they
said, man, they're surviving it,
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let me praise God that they're
surviving it. Because if they're
surviving it, it's the proof
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that I'm going survive it as
well. Are you all hearing me
today? And see, this is why you
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got to get to a place where you
learn how to rejoice when others
rejoice because it's quiet as
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it's kept. There are some that
don't rejoice when others
rejoice. We mourn when others
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rejoice, and we rejoice when
others mourn because other
people's blessing causes us to
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become bitter and jealous and
envious. But I need you to know
that other people's good news
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ought not to make you mad.
Other's good people's news ought
to actually bolster your faith
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and help you know that God is
about to do something in your
life. [ Congregation: Amen] In
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other words, this is how
testimony service at church
ought to go. In other words,
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instead of standing up and
saying, I've got a new car, you
stand up and say, look at how
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God has blessed us because what
he is done for me, he can do the
same for you. When their kids
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come back to church. You sound
like your kids came back to
church when they get healed from
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cancer. You sound like you got
healed from cancer. When you
prayed for them and God answered
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the prayer you prayed for them,
you rejoice as if it happened to
you and see you oughta be glad
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when somebody else is in the
overflow. [ Congregation:
Alright] See the problem with
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some of us is that we operate in
such a way that we've made the
overflow selfish. See I need you
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to understand that the overflow
is not selfish. It's supposed to
be contagious. In other words,
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does anybody remembers these
old-school ice trays? Anybody
under 35 knows about ice makers
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let them know about these trays.
Can I get a witness out there
now? Now isn't it amazing how in
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an ice tray in order to fill
it up, you got to turn it to the
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side [ Congregation: Laughing]
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And then what happens is you got
to cause one cube to overflow.
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But if you next to the one
that's overflowing, if you're
next to somebody overflowing,
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[ Congregation: Yes]
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Then guess what? The overflow
is going to pour over into you.
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In other words, I'm not going
to get mad when I see you in the
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overflow. I'm going to stand
next to you because the overflow
has to go somewhere.
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And if I'm next to you when you
overflow, guess what is going
overflow into my cup? Oh, God.
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And what I'm saying to somebody
else is when they're
overflowing, don't get mad.
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Get close because God is simply
going to send some your way. Are
y'all hearing me today friends?
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[ Congregation: That's right]
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So your life might be turned to
the side. And you are next to
somebody that's getting blessed.
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Don't get mad. You are just in a
position to see the goodness of
God overflow into your life.
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Are y'all hearing me today? The
third thing this teaches is that
you can't just use your
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privilege for yourself. It's
interesting that Matthew says
that they toil with this storm
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all night long. Now watch this.
Cause notice they don't call
Jesus until their boat is going
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under. In other words, this
storm is intensified, and it is
getting worse all night. I mean
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those who are in the little
boat, you realize that in a
storm, those in the little boat
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going to feel it first. But
notice they don't invoke their
privilege of waking up Jesus
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until what's affecting everybody
else begins to affect them. And
it's funny because those who are
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in the storm in the small boats
are going to feel this with an
acute sensitivity that those in
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the big boat don't feel. So that
those in the little boat,
they're in evasive maneuvering
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action. Those in the big boat,
they just drinking, they alza
like ain't nothing going on.
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Those in the little boats are
having to bail water out all
night long. Those in the big
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boats are like, we didn't even
bring no buckets on our boat.
Those in the little boat are
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trying to fight for their lives.
And those in the big boat are
judging and saying you should
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have got yourself a bigger boat
and you wouldn't be in that same
situation. Are y'all hearing
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what I'm saying? And isn't it
amazing that they don't wake up
Jesus as long as the little
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boats are struggling, as long as
the little boats are drowning,
as long as the little boats are
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in peril, guess what? They hoard
Jesus and their privilege all to
themselves. And they don't wake
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up Jesus until the storm is
about to take them under. And
see the problem with privilege
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is that sometimes we won't use
our resources, our gifts, our
connections, or our advantages
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until certain things affect us
directly. See, it's crazy
because I'm not sure if Jesus
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rebukes them because they wake
him up in the storm. Perhaps
Jesus rebukes them because they
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don't wake them up until it's
affecting them. And see, and
this is why friends, sometimes
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God has to allow suffering to
touch everybody so that the
privilege stop hoarding their
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privilege. Are y'all hearing
what I'm saying today? And it's
amazing because the disciples
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hoard their, privilege until it
is affecting them. But I do want
to say to somebody today be
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mindful that what's affecting
another community today might be
touching your world tomorrow.
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Isn't it amazing how those in
the big boat, the cure for drugs
and illegal drugs were a stiff
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penalty and harsh punishment
until the opioid crisis went
into the suburbs and rural
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counties and now the emphasis is
upon counseling and
rehabilitation? Isn't it amazing
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how Covid wasn't really no big
deal until it got out of the
ghettos and started affecting
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people of every hue and every
high hair type? Isn't it amazing
how HIV was no big deal as long
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as it was a gay and sinners
disease? But when it starts
affecting those in big boats,
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all of a sudden laws begin to
change. Gender discrimination is
no big deal. Until your talented
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wife or daughter reaches an
artificial ceiling. That date
rape is no problem until it was
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a woman in your family that's
taken advantage of and now you
ain't got no questions about
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what she was wearing and why she
was there and what even was she
in that situation in the first
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place? It's amazing how the
treatment of our veterans is no
problem until your nephew or
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niece comes home wounded and
gets underserved. The criminal
justice system is no problem
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until your middle-class child
messes up in these streets and
finds themself in need of some
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solutions. Human trafficking is
no problem until it affects our
community. Then we want to pray,
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we want to protest, we want to
go on Facebook. But it wasn't a
problem until it started
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touching our house. And see
essentially this message is I
could spend our time and I could
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talk about him stopping the
waves and the sea. But see it's
a call away from isolationism.
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This is a call away from
me-centered thinking where I
live with no awareness of
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suffering or hardship or outside
pain until it touches me in a
direct way. And I want to be
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encouraging to somebody be
careful about looking down on
folk who don't have big boats.
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Because those folk that you
looking down on today, you might
be looking next to them
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tomorrow. It is a call to not be
tone deaf, to not be powerless,
to not be voiceless, to not be
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indifferent, and to have a
sensitivity to human suffering
wherever it is found. And so
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whether your privilege comes
from gender or race, whether
your privilege is earned or
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whether it is inherited, I need
all of us to know, even though
most of us may have a dark hue
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of skin, do you realize that in
the Oakwood community that there
are advantages and privileges
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that don't exist in every other
community And we can't allow our
privilege to just be hoarded for
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second and third and fifth
generation Adventists? We've got
to open up the doors and build
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bridges and not walls and we've
got to be a source of healing, a
source of hope, a source of
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facilitation to those that need
this gospel that we have. [
Congregation: Amen] Are y'all
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hearing what I'm saying? And
it's crazy because disciples
just like us when our bills are
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due, don't you care that we
perish but it's been people
perishing around you all day,
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all month long. We, don't really
want to call for change with
financial aid and how kids get
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into church school until our
kids have a month when the
tuition is hard to come by. And
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what I'm saying to somebody
today is that we've got to
operate as good members in
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covenant with society. Can
somebody say amen today? See I
need us to understand that
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society, is not necessarily just
a grouping of people. Society is
a social contract. It is a
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contract and a decision to say
that we are not going to allow
some to prosper at the expense
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of others. We've got to make it
up in our minds to say, man,
that we are not judged not by
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the upper crust or by the elite
or by the wealthiest 1%, but we
are actually judged as a
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society. Our moral worth is
defined by how the least and the
marginalized and left behind are
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cared for in a culture of wealth
and opulence and excess. Are
y'all hearing me today friends?
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It's crazy because there is one
benefit of being in a small
boat. You notice that like those
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in the big boat, they screaming,
they hollering, they shrinking,
they're like, Lord, don't you
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care that we perish? But David
shouldn't this screaming shall
come from those in the little
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boats, the lows, and the little
boats. Start feeling the storm
first. Oh, y'all not here. [
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Congregation: Amen] Those in the
little boat have been in the
storm the longest. Those in the
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little boat have been feeling it
the worst. In other words,
what's happened to those in the
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little boats? The reason they're
not screaming with the disciples
is they've been in the storm so
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long, that they've developed a
rhythm to surviving. So now that
it's just catching those in the
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big boat, they trying to panic
and have an attack but they've
been in the storm so long that
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they've just adjusted to it. Oh
y'all, not hear me? See there
are some that are just being
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touched by certain problems in
life, but there are some, don't
get bougie with me now. [
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Congregation: Alright] Does
anybody come from that part of
town? Does anybody come from the
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other side of the tracks?
Anybody ever eaten ruing noodles
for lunch, dinner, and
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breakfast? In other words,
you've been in a little boat so
long that you ain't tripping
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because of the storm. Because
you've got a rhythm to surviving
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things. [ Congregation: Amen]
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See in other words, there are
some that start tripping
whenever there's a recession.
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But some of us have
been in recession so long.
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[ Congregation: Alright]
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Recession is all we know. We
used to not having no money. We
used to having to make food with
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nothing but a bottle of ketchup
and a box of baking soda. Are
y'all hearing what I'm saying?
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In other words, when the housing
market is bad, we ain't tripping
when the economy's bad, we ain't
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tripping, when there are job
losses, we ain't tripping
because we have been broke so
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long. We've been on the other
side so long that we learned
that when we ain't got nobody
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else. [ Congregation: Amen]
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See they just learned to call on
Jesus. But you've been having to
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call on Jesus. If you've had to
call on Jesus, that's just
another kind of privilege.
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In other words, I need you to
know that if you ain't never
been down to your last dime,
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[ Congregation: Alright]
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If you ain't never gotten down
to the place where if it didn't
have, if God didn't do it,
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it couldn't be done.
You've been culturally deprived.
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[ Congregation: Amen]
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But do I have seven or eight
folks? You've been in that spot
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so long, you've seen God do so
much with so little that you
believe God can do anything when
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he ain't got nothing because he
gave you the privilege of being
in the storm first and longest.
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So you know how to handle the
storm because you've been there
so long. Are y'all hearing what
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I'm saying? And see, and that's
why everybody else is
frightened, tripping. It's the
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end of all things for you it's
just Tuesday. [ Congregation:
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Laughing] And the God who did it
on Sunday and the God who did it
on Monday and the God that did
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it last time, he's still on the
throne and he's going to do it
again. Are y'all hearing the
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word of God today friends?
Listen, I'm done. I just wanted
to take a little time today to
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say two things to those who feel
like they're in a little boat. I
need you to be clear that God
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loves those in little boats. You
may feel like you're in a small
boat financially and
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professionally and spiritually,
because of your gender, or
because of what part of town you
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come from, or what neighborhood
you were brought up in. But God
says, man, your testimony might
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not be that you always were in a
big boat. Your testimony is
that, man it was storming and I
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was in a small boat. [
Congregation: Amen] And God
sustained me in the storm. See,
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somebody going to shout until
you get to the part where he
stopped the storm. But anybody
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just prays for to be
sustained... [ Congregation:
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Amen] In the storm, God kept you
when you didn't have money for
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school. He kept you when your
grandma had to send quarters and
a calling card so you can call
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back home. Does anybody remember
today is when your grandma would
send detergent in Ziploc bags so
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you can wash your clothes? He
kept you when you were in a
small boat. He kept you in that.
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You came from that part of town
where there are many folk men
that were born in your year,
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but they ain't no longer here.
Some of us have come out of
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circumstances and see that's why
man-educated Christians should
not sit up and be boogie.
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I'm the educated Christian who
ought to be the loudest, most
thankful, most joyous, most
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grateful people because you know
where you come from and you know
where God has brought you up out
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of. And he cares for your young
person. If you're in a small
boat, he cares for you my
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brother and sister if you're in
a small boat financially,
medically, or spiritually, no
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matter what it is, God sees you.
And he cares for those in small
boats. But there's a larger call
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for those of us because some may
get privileged because of, their
last name or through
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inheritance. You know, in,
church. I have privilege over my
female counterparts cause I'm a
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male and they're female pastors.
There's a privilege I have
there, are some I have a
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privilege simply because God has
blessed you to be a person of
means. So I need you to know
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that this sermon is not just to
the majority, it is to anybody
that has access, opportunity,
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connection, privilege, and the
opportunity to be a conduit. But
you're living as a collector.
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How can you expect somebody else
to do for your community what we
are not doing in our own
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communities? Are you hearing
what I'm saying? Guys? We don't
need a savior. No, let me change
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that spiritually. We need a
savior as a community, we don't
need a savior. We just need to
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learn how to come together. [
Congregation: Amen] We got to
stop being small-minded. We got
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to stop being crabs in a barrel.
See when crabs are, well y'all,
don't know nothing about this.
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But when crabs are trying to
escape and one gets up right
there close to the top, you know
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what another one does? He'll
grab him and pull him right back
down. And say, guess what? We
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going to all die together. And
instead of pulling the one at
the top down, won't you form a
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chain or a line and let others
crawl across so that everybody
can be free? I want us, listen,
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I want to call young African
American entrepreneurs to see
other people in your field. And
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when you see them doing well,
don't just see them as
competition. Congratulate them.
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[ Congregation: Amen]
Congratulate them. No Oakwood
and Pine Forge, we are not
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competitors, we are partners,
right? We're partners. We're
partners. We got the same
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mission, we got the same work.
So what I'm saying is today,
friends, that there are two
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responsibilities. One, if you're
in a little boat, God cares. But
if you're in a bull big boat for
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any reason, somehow God is just
giving you access. Listen, you
got privilege. If you've got
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enough food in your house for
dinner that when you're done,
you're going to have to throw
00:25:42.10\00:25:45.21
some away. That's privilege. And
what I'm saying to us today is
that the social responsibility
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does not begin with the outside.
It begins with us individually
where we learn to come together
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instead of pulling down, tearing
apart, and seeing everybody as a
threat, but realize we're all
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partners. We're all fighting the
same fight. We're all in the
same race and we're all headed
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toward the same heaven. How many
of us believe the word of God
today? [ Congregation: Amen]
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So, I need somebody to function
on a different level of faith.
What I'm talking about requires
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a different level of belief.
It's hard to see. You are the
last cube in the tray and
00:26:11.47\00:26:16.81
somebody's being filled in the
top and your life is being
turned upside down. Just be
00:26:16.84\00:26:23.01
still when they're in the
overflow. Because if you just
are still and you'll rejoice
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with those who rejoice, I need
you to know it's just a matter
of time before the blessings of
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