Sermon #S045 -
Role Play (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 titled:
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“Role Play” Now, let's go
deeper into the word of God!
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Snell: And one of the things
that causes me to rejoice is
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that he knows you, and he still
wants you. Oh, y'all acting
brand new up in here today.
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One of the testimonies in the
Bible that I never quite
understood was the woman by the
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well. After Jesus talks to her,
she leaves her water pot goes
into the city, tells all the
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men, come see a man who knows
everything I ever done, and
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guess what? The Bible says that
they all came into the city to
meet Jesus, and it didn't ever
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make sense to me because if you
say, come meet a man that knows
everything I've ever done, I
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don't want to see that man. I'm
scared about what that man might
say. Come on and say Amen,
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but the reason the testimony
was so powerful is that she is
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saying, I know a man that knows
everything I've ever done, but
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guess what? He didn't use it
against me. He didn't indict me,
but he loved me regardless of it
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all, that Jesus still loves us,
and is there anybody grateful
that in spite all of your grime
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and your dirt and having to say
I'm sorry over and over again,
that Jesus still looks beyond
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our faults and sees our needs.
It's crazy God loves us so much
that it doesn't matter where
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we've been. Doesn't matter what
you've done, it doesn't matter
where God found you. Real talk,
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give me a little license on
this. I'm not trying to be
obscene, but I remember growing
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up, man, when I was around
fourth grade, man, the toy of my
childhood was a little toy
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called He-Man, anybody remember
He-man. Had a villain called
Skeletor, castle Grayskull, the
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whole name, and I remember I had
saved up my little allowance to
get me a little he-man action
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figure, and I remember I would
eat at the table with He-man.
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I would go to bed with he-man, I
would play outside with He-man,
but one of the things we were
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not supposed to do, we were not
supposed to take He-man to
school, but I had gotten down
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with some of my friends and we
had decided to bring our action
figures to school and we
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couldn't play with them in
class, and so the only way we
could bring them out was, and we
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went into the bathroom, and so
we're in the bathroom playing
with our little He-man action
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figures, and I was so excited
because I had the best one in
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the group. I had paid for it,
and I remember as one of the
teachers was going in,
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I had to run into the little
stall to kind of hide and get
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away, and so I had set He-man on
the back of the little commode,
and it's crazy because when I
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looked inside, somebody had left
a mess inside, and it's crazy
because when I was bumbling
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around, I bumped up against the
commode and He-man fell inside.
Now, now again, now if y'all
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don't know this about the
pastor, I got a thing about
public bathrooms. I ain't going
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to lie, if that joint ain't
right, I will turn around and
hold it till Jesus comes. That's
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who I am. I've been that way
since I was a child, and it's
crazy because my friends
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automatically assume, He-man, he
gone like he's done, he's inside
of the mess, but I loved He-man.
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I paid for He-man and before I
knew it, I was rolling up my
sleeve, lifting up the lid and
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reaching down, washing He-man,
bleaching him when I got home,
and he was on the mantle by the
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time my grandma came home from
work. Now the problem is y'all
still looking in the commode.
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How many of us know God didn't
find all of y'all on the altar?
He found some of us in the aww,
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he found some of us in our mess,
but anybody thankful that he
didn't hesitate, he got right
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down in it, washed you, cleansed
you, paid for you, and redeemed
you by his grace. Are y'all
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hearing me today friends? Second
thing I need you to get about
grace, is that grace is not just
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informed about what you are
about your past, grace knows
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about your future. It's amazing
to me friends how much
information Grace is able to
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absorb, because not only does
God say go marry her knowing her
past, he says marry her knowing
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her present, but he says,
listen, Hosea, especially in
chapter 2, he says, listen,
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Hosea, you going to be good to
her. You're going to treat her
right, you going to set her up,
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you going to give her a house,
you going to get her pedicures,
you're going to get her cleaned
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up, but as soon as she gets a
little restless, she going to go
right back out on them streets
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and I'm going to commission you
to go pay and bring her back
home, and a part of the
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salacious nature of the role
play is that God accepts us. Not
just knowing what we have done,
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that God called you knowing what
you would do. Now, this is going
to mess up the righteousness by
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works folk, but I need you to
know the shadow of the cross
doesn't just go back to man's
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original sin. It goes forward to
provide enough grace for man's
final sin. He's saying she going
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to stay in them streets and
you're going to have to keep
chasing her and bringing her
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back, and what I need somebody
to understand this fundamental
truth, is that as long as the
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door of probation is open, there
is no cap on the grace of God.
There is no threshold that you
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can't trespass. You cannot get
beyond the reach of the Almighty
God. Now the reason I'm saying
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this is because there are some
amongst us that are carrying
this heavy condemnation that
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somehow we can't be redeemed,
because we have disappointed God
too many times, and some of you
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heard me say this, you may not
agree, but I need you to
understand you can't disappoint
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God, because disappointment is
based upon unmet expectations.
Disappointment suggests that God
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expected you to be here, when
the truth is you're performing
way down here, and it suggests
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that God didn't really know what
he was getting into when he got
into a relationship with you,
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but God can't be disappointed
because he know everything you
are going to do before you ever
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did it. In other words, was
Jesus disappointed when Peter
denied him? He told Peter
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beforehand that he would deny
him. He wasn't disappointed when
Judas betrayed him, he told
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Judas he was going to betray
him. He wasn't disappointed with
Adam sin, he had already made
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provision for Adam's redemption.
He wasn't surprised when Job
stood strong, he told Satan that
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he would. In other words, there
is nothing that you do that
surprises God. He made provision
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for it and he planned for it so
that there is nothing... oh,
y'all hear me today church, and
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now I need you to make sure that
you understand this, that just
because God knows that you're
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going to sin and God need you
and makes provision for it, that
doesn't mean he endorses it. Are
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y'all hearing me today? So first
John chapter 2 in verse 1. I
write these things that you do
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not... [Congregation: Sin] Sin,
but if any man sins, we have an
advocate with the Father Jesus
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Christ the righteous. In other
words, I need you to understand
that grace is so amazing that
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God creates provision, simply
because he knows what we're
going to do. It's crazy, I
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remember when the kids was a
little bit smaller and we would
go to people's house for Sabbath
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for lunch, you know how it is?
You get to somebody's house and
you turn around in the backseat
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and you threaten them. Don't
y'all go in here and act like
y'all ain't got no sense. I
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don't want to see you in on the
floor in your dress. I don't
want to see you outside in your
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church clothes. I don't want to
see you running all the way
around, getting dirty and messed
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up. Oh I'm I by myself? Amen. I
got these PKs, they
photographer's kids. Can I get a
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witness today? Amen, so 1 day
we're getting ready to go to
somebody's house, and then when
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we find out that they're going
to be a bunch of kids there.
It's crazy because what we do
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when we find out the Dudley kids
are going to be there, some
other kids are going to be
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there, we've warned them and
said, this is not what you're
supposed to do, but because we
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know our kids, what we do is we
bring a change of clothes, and
it's crazy before we say Grace,
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my daughter is on the floor in
her dress, the boys is outside
in full sweat, but guess what?
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Even though we didn't condone
it, guess what? We bought
provision, so they didn't have
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to walk around in filthy
garments, and God is saying, I'm
not endorsing it, but guess
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what? I got a change of clothes
for you so that you can put on
my robe of righteousness, and
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see the thing that I want to
debunk really quickly friends of
mine, is the myth of fragile
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salvation. See, the reason for
some of us church or religion is
not fun and the reason we don't
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have the joy of salvation is
because we don't have the
assurance of salvation. It is
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crazy because most of us still
see God as prosecutor and not
advocate. Most of us still see
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him as inspector and not savior.
Pardon me what I'm saying this
then, we still see him as
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principle and not guidance
counselor, and see what some of
us need to have happen is we
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need to have the veil removed
from the character of God so
that you can see Jesus as he is.
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Are y'all hearing what I'm
saying today? Look at this quote
here from the book Steps to
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Christ chapter 10. This is
literally why Jesus Christ had
to come to earth. He didn't just
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come to die friends, he had to
come to show us what God was
like. See, she literally says
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the enemy of good blinded mind
blinded the minds of men so that
they looked upon God with what
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fear, they thought of him as
severe and unforgiving. Satan
led men to conceive of God as a
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being whose chief attribute was
stern justice, one who is a
severe judge, a harsh exacting
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creditor, and do you know who
Satan used to purport that
image? The church. He pictured
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the creator as a being who is
watching with jealous eye to
discern the errors and mistakes
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of men, that he may visit
judgments upon them. It was to
remove this dark shadow by
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revealing to the world the
infinite love of God that Jesus
came to live amongst men. Are
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y'all hearing me today friends?
So that God knew who they were,
knew who she was, and pledged
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himself to her. Now this going
to trip you out, so when Hosea
gets with Gomer symbolizing what
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God says when he gets with us.
You know what God is saying is
that spiritually adultery is not
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grounds for divorce. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah. No, what God is
saying is that if you're in a
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relationship with me, there
ain't no such thing as
irreconcilable differences. God
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is saying, I'm giving you this
promise that he which has begun
a good work in you shall
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continue it even until the day
of Jesus Christ. Are y'all hear
me today friends? And I need
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somebody to understand this
critical truth, that even though
there is such a thing as a lake
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of fire and and hell, I need you
to know that hell is not God
divorcing man, hell is man
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divorcing God, because remember
what Jesus said, the everlasting
fire is prepared for the devil
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and his angels. It is a divorce
or a separation of man pulling
away from an eternally loving
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God. Third thing this teaches
us, listen, I'm almost done
watch this. One of the things
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that trips me out about Gomer
and us, is that Gomer is so
dysfunctional that she can't
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even tell when she's winning.
See, we so fallen that we can't
tell the difference between
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freedom and bondage. That God
has been so good to us, but our
hearts are so unsettled that we
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can't even tell when we are
winning in Christ, so she's got
a man who loves her, who's going
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to provide for her, that's going
to rub her feet when she get
tired. That's going to make sure
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she has everything that she
needs, but see, the problem is
she has been in a transactional
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world so long that she don't
even know how to function in a
relational world. In other
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words, when them streets come
calling, there's just something
inside of her that feels like
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she's got to respond. She is so
messed up that unconditional
love, protection and commitment
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feels unfair to her, and because
she's that broken, she dismisses
them for the streets. I'm going
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to offend when I say this
because essentially again,
you're remembering what the role
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play is. He's saying, my people
are so messed up that they see
my goodness as bondage. They so
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messed up that they see my law
as restriction. They so messed
up that they see life in the
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club as more appealing than life
in the sun. Are y'all hearing
what I'm saying today? And I
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want to say this to every
teenage church child that's on
the verge of going out into the
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world, or every adult that's in
the world in response to life
growing up in the church. That
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there is a Gomer like quality in
you, because Gomer's flaw is not
just that she does wrong, it's
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her inability to be able to see
when she's winning. Let me just
say this, because even if you've
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grown up in an imperfect
religious tradition, maybe your
parents didn't do everything the
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right way. Maybe they didn't
explain everything right, maybe
they overemphasized some things
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in a way that they should not
have done, but I need you to
understand that if you grew up
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in the church and your parents
taught you how to pray, and they
brought you to Sabbath school
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and they gave you a Christian
education, I need you to
understand that you grew up with
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the upper hand. Again, I don't
want to invalidate the feelings
of some, but at some point in
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time, some of us got to get past
this church or Adventist scar
tissue that says, because I had
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to come to church as a kid, I'm
not going to do it as an adult
because I had to come to Sabbath
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school as a kid, I'm not going
to do it as an adult because I
had to come to prayer meeting as
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a kid, I'm not going to do it as
an adult, because we had to have
worship as kids, we're not going
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to do it as an adult. It's crazy
because all that stuff that your
mama made you do as kids was
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actually giving you a head
start. It was actually giving
you the upper hand. It was
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actually giving you an advantage
and a boost, and it's crazy, the
logic that says because I had to
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as a child that I'm not going to
do it as an adult. You don't
say, because I had to go to
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school as a child, I'm not going
to do it as an adult. You don't
say, I don't brush my teeth now
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that I'm grown, because they
made me brush my teeth when I
was kids. You don't say, because
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I had to take a shower as a kid,
I don't take showers now that
I'm grown. We don't say because
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I had to clean my room as a
child, I don't clean my room as
an adult. You realize that the
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only thing from childhood that
some of us left behind was our
religion, and if the only thing
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you left behind was your
religion, it wasn't your
upbringing, it's your hearts.
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Are y'all hearing what the
pastor is saying? And I need you
to understand that the response
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to bad religion should not be to
become irreligious. Your
response to bad religion ought
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to be to say, let me find true
religion. Let me find joy in
Jesus, hope in the Spirit,
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liberty in Christ, and do it the
way that Christ intended, so
don't let your adult irreligion
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be a response to imperfect
childhood religion, because I
need somebody to understand, and
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again, I am, my folk provide,
they protected me some from some
of the advent is crazy, so I
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ain't got all that, but I need
you to understand. How many of
us understand that don't no
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parents get it all right, or
y'all acting brand new. I'm
trying to raise my kids the best
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I can, but I can tell you that
it is imperfect, but I need
somebody to understand that if
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you grew up in the church, guess
what? You're winning. Oh God.
See, y'all still don't know
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you're winning. If you learn how
to pray, guess what? You are
winning. If you learn to study
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your Bible, guess what? You are
winning. If you learn how to
testify, guess what? You are
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winning. If you are giving a
Christian education, guess what?
You are winning. If you learn
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that God is a redeemer, guess
what? You are winning. Instead
of looking at everything that
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was wrong, thank God that you
got some kind of foundation to
know God for yourself, and
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instead of abandoning it and
throwing the baby out with the
bath water, hold on to the baby.
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Are y'all hearing what I'm
saying today? And there's got to
come to a place in time where we
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look and stop looking at all the
imperfections of the church and
look at the perfection of the
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savior. Stop judging Christ by
measuring him against his
hypocrites, but do I have at
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least 5 or 6 folks that are just
thankful that he came? You are
thankful that he died. You are
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thankful that he calls, you are
thankful that he redeems. It
hadn't been perfect or ideal
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along the way, but guess what?
Despite all of my flaws and my
mess, guess what? He still calls
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us by name and he allows us to
enter into fellowship with him.
Are y'all hearing the pastor
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today? I'm done. I'm done, I'm
done. I'm done, but I need
somebody that's on the verge of
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heading out and somebody who's
already out. You got to get to a
place where you realize you're
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winning and you don't even know
it. You are only a loser in your
own mind. See, the problem is we
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get so distorted, our nature is
so fallen that we don't even
know freedom from bondage. We so
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messed up. Do you realize that
sobriety is not bondage?
Sobriety is freedom. Oh God. No,
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it's when you have to that's
bondage. See, we walking around
here. See, the problem is we
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don't know the difference
between protection and
restriction. Do you get what I'm
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saying? It's crazy. The whole
rest of the world trying to get
Sabbath off and y'all run around
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here, "Well pastor, is it okay
if I do this on this on the
Sabbath? Can I go to work?" No,
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we can't tell the difference.
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And what I'm saying to somebody
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is that when you find Jesus for
yourself, come to conclusions
for yourself, get settled in
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truth for yourself, and not
allow your whole adult
experience to be response to
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childhood trauma. Are y'all
hearing what I'm saying today?
Listen, I'm done. What do I want
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to do just briefly, go ahead and
play something for me, is I want
to invite somebody into
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fellowship with Jesus. There is
somebody who is carrying heavy
weight, heavy strain, and it's
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crazy because there's this sense
of condemnation that we think
comes from the spirit. The
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spirit sends conviction that
points you to God, but you know
what is embedded in every sin?
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It is the voice of condemnation
that drives you away from God,
so even sometimes when you come
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to church and we running around
thinking everybody looking about
you and talking about you. No,
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everybody's just trying to
worship, some of that
condemnation ain't coming from
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out, sometimes that's just
iniquity trying to push you back
out the door. Are y'all hearing
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what I'm saying today friends? I
need somebody to get to a place
where you stop carrying the
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residue, the stain, the
uncertainty, and you start
walking in the amazing grace
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that was afforded to us by the
sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Listen, I need somebody to
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understand. For that person who
feels like I've disappointed
God, I've messed up. I've gone
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too far, I've done all this.
Jesus knew who you were when he
called you. When he first called
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Peter, he knew that there was
going to come a day where 3
times he was going to act like I
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didn't even know him, but he
told Peter on on the front end,
he says, you're going to deny
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me, but when you get converted,
strengthen your brethren, so
Christ didn't just see his
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failure, he already saw his
redemption on the other side, so
guess what? Christ doesn't just
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see your mess ups, guess what?
He sees who you will become as
long as you abide in him. I need
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somebody to know that his grace
is so amazing, that if you don't
give up on God, guess what? God
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won't ever give up on you. If
you never walk away from God,
God will never walk away from
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you, and it's crazy because
I want to encourage somebody on
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sanctification journey. What you
ought to do is you ought to get
out of the promise making
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business and get in the covenant
business, so you're a young
believer, you mess up and you
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get up early next morning, you
say, "Lord, I promise I'll never
do it again." That's 8 o'clock,
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and by 11 o'clock you done did
it again. I'm I by myself. Oh, I
ain't going to never do it
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again, but Saturday night, you
done it again, and it's funny
the reason you out not make
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promises is because again you
don't realize how fallen your
nature is, because when you keep
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making promises, guess what? You
begin to feel guilt because you
know how you've broken, so I
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remember, after this falling
again and again and again. I
made God kind of one last
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covenant. I really just made the
covenant that Jacob made with
God. the faith journey, I just
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