Hello, friends.
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Welcome to the
3ABN Worship Center
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where the Lord has
been working through His man
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servant Pastor Cory
Jackson in such a wonderful way
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that we invite you to stay tuned
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as the Lord continues
connecting Earth to Heaven.
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This Foundation of Our
Faith is brought to you by
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Dare to Dream and also by 3ABN
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and we know that
whenever we open our hearts
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God has a tremendous
blessing in store for us.
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We heard a couple of
messages already rags to riches
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which was surely one that
brought us into the reality
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that God sees us where we are
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and doesn't leave
us the way He finds us.
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He finds us in our brokenness
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and turns us
from rags to riches.
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Then last night we
discovered so wonderfully
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the woman that God
in touch with Jesus
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with a plea give
it just one more shot.
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The Lord not only
answered her prayer
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but made her a
woman of restoration
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to the glory of the Lord.
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And today Pastor Cory Jackson
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is gonna be
bringing a message entitled
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The Breaking
Before the Blessing.
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The Breaking
Before the Blessing.
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Pastor Cory Jackson is a
native of Chicago, Illinois
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but he is presently
the pastor of the Burns
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Seventh-day Adventist
Church in Detroit, Michigan.
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He has been
pastoring now for 14 years.
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It may not seem like a long time
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but as I listen to this
young man he has seasoned.
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He is not just a preacher
but he is one called of God.
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Can we say amen to that? Amen.
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There is a difference between
preaching and being called
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and he definitely is called.
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His life was one of choices.
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In the city in
which he was raised
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he was once a probation officer
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and the Lord called him
at a pivotal time in his life
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from the work of the world
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to the work of
God's eternal kingdom.
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What I like so much is a text
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that is very much
a part of his call.
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He says, the Lord says to him,
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you have not chosen
Me but I have chosen you.
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The Lord truly did
choose Pastor Cory Jackson.
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And as-- and this is the part
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that makes me
smile each time I say it.
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But when he was beginning
to study to be a Black Muslim
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and a Black Panther
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the Lord turned him
into a black pastor instead.
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He says, don't
forget to say that,
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he had a road of choice
but God broke that journey
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and brought him into a
relationship with the Lord
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and you will be amazed
today as God ignites this pulpit
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one more time
through Pastor Cory Jackson.
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Another young man
that's a part of this ministry
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is a young man by
the name of Louis Cleare.
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He lives in the
Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas.
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Only 22 years old but
when you hear him sing
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you will know
that God is working in
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and through him and on him.
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He is gonna bless us with a song
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"He Hideth My Soul."
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And after Brother Louis Cleare
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the next voice
that you will hear
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will be that of
Pastor Cory Jackson.
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A wonderful Savior
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is Jesus my Lord
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A wonderful Savior to me
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He hideth my soul in
the cleft of the rock
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Where rivers of pleasure I see
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He hideth my soul
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In the cleft of the rock
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That shadows a dry, thirsty land
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He hideth my life
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In the depths of His love
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And covers me
there with His hand
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And covers me
there with His hand
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A wonderful Savior
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Is Jesus my Lord
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He taketh my burden away
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He holdeth me up
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And I shall not be moved
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He giveth me strength as my day
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He hideth my soul
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In the cleft of the rock
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That shadows a dry thirsty land
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He hideth my life
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In the depths of His love
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And covers me
there with His hand
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And covers me
there with His hand
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When clothed with His brightness
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Transported I rise
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To meet Him in clouds of the sky
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His perfect salvation
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His wonderful love
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I'll shout
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with the millions on high
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He hideth my soul
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In the cleft of the rock
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That shadows a dry
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Thirsty land
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He hideth my life
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In the depths of His love
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And covers me
there with His hand
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And covers me there
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He covers me there
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With His hand
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With His hand
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Happy Sabbath, everyone.
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Happy Sabbath. Happy Sabbath.
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Oh, you can do better than that.
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Happy Sabbath,
everyone. Happy Sabbath.
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It's good to see you all today
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and I know that you were
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thoroughly amazed
by the Louis singing.
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I know you're
trying to figure out
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how does a
22-year-old sound like that.
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Well, all I can tell
you just thank the Lord
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and his good daddy
and his good momma.
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Amen. Amen.
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Do me a favor if you don't mind.
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Just look at your
neighbor for a moment
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and just smile at him.
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Doesn't matter
if you get 32, 16, 8
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or just one big old
tooth, just smile at him.
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Then once you finish smiling
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just take that smile
and just smile at me.
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I'm gonna need your
smile the whole time.
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I'm not home in Detroit
and my folk are missing me
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and so I told them I
had to come down here
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and spend time with my cousins.
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Amen. Amen.
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And so you are my cousins today.
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And so you can talk to me too.
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My church loves to talk to me.
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Encourages the preacher.
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And so I'm glad to
be here with you all
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with this third part of our
series of Foundations of Faith
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and it has been
truly a blessing.
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And so as we get
ready to get started,
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would you pray with me please?
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Father in heaven,
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we thank You once again
for Your blessings upon us.
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We thank You for loving us
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the way You do in
spite of our sins.
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As we've come to
this holy Sabbath day,
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Lord, we pray
for Your blessings.
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Holy ghost, we ask
that you continue to do
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your appointed word by working
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on the hearts of men
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and speaking
through this preacher,
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Lord, that
although they see my face
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they may hear Your voice.
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And as the appeal is made, Lord,
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whether in this
place or around the world
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we pray that someone
will give their heart to You.
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This is our prayer
today in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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We've been spending
the last couple of days
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talking about character building
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and our need to
build our characters.
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And the type of
preacher that I am
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or speaker I like to
call myself is I like to build
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and get to a
conclusion towards the end.
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So each step is one
step towards the end
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so today would be a
cliffhanger to later on.
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But character
building is important
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as we have to all
decide to make a change.
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And the first day we talked
about calling out to Jesus
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and we used an
example of blind Bartimaeus
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and how his call
brought his restoration.
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And but for some of us
the call may not be enough
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and yesterday we talked about
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you have to reach like the woman
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with the issue of blood is
not enough to call sometimes.
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It's not enough to reach.
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And for some of us,
listen to me closely
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call and reaching won't do,
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you just got to get into
a all wing fight with God.
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And so there are two scriptures
that we have honed in on,
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Ezekiel 36:26 simply says that,
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"A new heart and a new
spirit will I give you."
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God promises to give us a
new heart and a new spirit.
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A new way of thinking
and brand new attitude.
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And Romans 12:2 says,
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"Be not conformed to this world,
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and but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind"
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and that is key that
our mind need to be renewed
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because as we've talked about
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volume 5 page
310 said it this way,
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"If the thoughts are
wrong, the feelings are wrong,
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thoughts and feelings combined
make up more character."
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So in other words
if I have bad thoughts
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it's undoubtedly I'm
gonna have bad feelings.
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And if I have bad
thoughts and bad feelings,
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then its sub
sequential that I'm gonna have
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a bad character.
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And many times the reason
people act the way they do is
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because their
thoughts are messed up,
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their thoughts as we
would call are jacked up
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and they need help.
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Second volume of
Mind, Character, Personality
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simply says, page 670 says,
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"Transformation
begins with our thoughts"
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that's where it starts.
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And even though we spend
a lot of time talking about
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end time events, I
have no problem with that.
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I love preaching
Three Angels' Message,
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but listen, it
doesn't make sense to preach
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on a Three Angels' Message
if your character is messed up.
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And why am I saying that?
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Because of a book called
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Christ's Object
Lessons, Page 69 says
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"When the character of Christ
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has been perfectly
reproduced in His people,
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then He shall come to
reclaim them as His own."
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Yes, God is concerned
that Bible studies go out
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but He is also concerned
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that His folk
will look like Him.
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His folk will act like Him.
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His folk would forgive like Him.
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His folk would love like Him.
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His folk would be
merciful like Him.
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He is looking for His
folk to love their enemies
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just like He did.
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So He is looking for
His folk to look like Him.
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And she says that when
it's perfectly, not almost,
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not three quarters,
not halfway, listen to me,
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when it's perfectly reproduced
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He says He is
gonna come and get us.
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He says, and she
continues on and say
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we should hastily help Him out.
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And sometimes we
take that to think
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we got to do more Bible studies
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and we got to tell
more people about God.
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No, you need to
shut up sometimes
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and get yourself together.
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Amen.
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Because some of us are
some of the meanest people,
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some of the most unforgiving,
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some of the most gossipy people
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I found sometimes in the church.
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And so God is trying to get His
folk together before He comes.
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Are you with me so
far? If so, say amen.
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Amen.
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And so we want to look
at a couple of scriptures
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before we get into the--
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our message
today James Chapter 1.
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For those who are
with us for the first time
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whether in the Worship Center
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or around the
world, we do three things.
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I believe in what the
Bible says in Matthew 4:35,
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that Jesus went
to all the synagogues
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and in Galilee He went teaching,
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and preaching and healing.
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And so whenever
I get up and speak
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I want to make sure
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that I'm teaching
first with instructions.
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Preaching comes
with encouragement
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and the healing be
may hold towards the end.
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And so we will go through those
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three different
categories today.
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James 1:2, James 1:2.
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When I read the Bible at times
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I sometimes think that
the Bible is just being funny.
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You understand
what I mean by that,
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sometimes there are
some things that are just
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to me seemly as an oxymoron.
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But because God
knows what He is doing
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I just have to roll with it.
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James 1:2 says, "My
brethren, count it all joy
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when you fall
into various trials."
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Now that's what
I mean right there.
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I don't know
anybody who gets excited.
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Matter of fact it's joyful
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when they are
going through some mess.
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I haven't heard
anybody call me and say,
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Pastor, guess what?
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I'm excited today.
Why are you excited?
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I'm getting put out of my house.
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I don't hear anybody
tell me how excited they are
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when they are going through
a trial of some situation.
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So sometimes
I'm wondering, Lord,
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how is something like
this I'm supposed to be joyful
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on a various trial.
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Verse 3 says, "Knowing this,
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that the trying of your
faith produces patience.
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But let patience
have her perfect work,
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that you may be perfect
and complete, lacking nothing."
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So trials has its place.
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It builds the character.
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It helps the faith to be strong.
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Trials that
come, trials that go,
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many come because we
haven't overcame the one
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that we are going through
so God allows another one
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to come in to
build us up the same way
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in which a man or
a woman exercises.
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Romans Chapter 5,
Romans the 5th chapter.
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Romans the 5th chapter.
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Romans 5:3-5.
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Romans 5:3 says,
"And not only so,
00:17:25.64\00:17:30.65
but we glory in
tribulations also."
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There is that thing again.
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We glory in tribulations.
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Have mercy.
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If we get to point where we
can celebrate our tribulation,
00:17:42.22\00:17:48.10
well, we are one
step closer to the kingdom
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because it's hard to
celebrate a tribulation.
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But God expects us to get there
00:17:55.57\00:17:57.84
"Knowing that
tribulation worketh patience,
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and patience, experience,
and experience, hope,
00:18:01.71\00:18:07.22
and hope maketh not ashamed,
00:18:07.25\00:18:08.98
because the love of God
is shed abroad in our hearts
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by the Holy Ghost
which is given unto us."
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So these things tend
to occur to help shape us.
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To help build us.
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To form us.
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To help develop our
faith in Christ even more. Why?
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Because Revelation
13 continues to inflate
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and God needs some folk
that's going to be faithful
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when it gets rough out here,
when it gets hard out here.
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See, life is good right
now for the majority of us
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but when Revelation 13
is completely activated
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and you can't
buy or sell anymore,
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and what's gonna happen then
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when your faith is not
as strong as it should be?
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So God is just simply
pumping us up to that timeframe.
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So in order to get
there 2 Corinthians 12,
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2 Corinthians 12:7
and the Bible says,
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"And lest I should
be exalted above measure
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through the
abundance of the revelations,
00:19:18.62\00:19:20.92
there was given to
me a thorn in the flesh,
00:19:20.96\00:19:23.76
the messenger of
Satan to buffet or beat me,
00:19:23.79\00:19:26.93
lest I should be
exalted above measure.
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For this thing I
besought the Lord three times,
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that it might depart from me.
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And he said unto me,
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My grace is
sufficient for thee."
00:19:36.64\00:19:39.97
So as you are
going through the trial,
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as you are going
through the tribulation
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just understand that God's grace
00:19:44.21\00:19:46.92
is sufficient for
thee at that moment.
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He says, "For my strength
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is made perfect in my weakness."
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God says that while
you are weak I'm strong.
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In other words He said,
I got you, boy, I got you.
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I'm gonna take you through
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but you have to understand
that it's His grace not mine.
00:20:01.86\00:20:06.60
Paul then says,
"Most gladly therefore
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will I glorify
in my infirmities,
00:20:08.94\00:20:11.11
that the power of
Christ may rest upon me."
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So God gives us sufficient
grace to get us through.
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But in the process He is
also trying to develop us.
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So there are five things
I want to give you today,
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five things.
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Go to Genesis 32.
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Still teaching Genesis
32, Genesis 32 first book.
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Genesis 32,
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simply looking at 24-30
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we will comeback to it.
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Genesis 32:24, the
Bible says this way
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"And Jacob was left alone,
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and there wrestled a man
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with him until the
breaking of the day.
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And when he saw that he
prevailed not against him,
00:20:58.85\00:21:02.09
he touched the
hollow of his thigh,
00:21:02.12\00:21:06.03
and the hollow of
Jacob's thigh was out of joint,
00:21:06.06\00:21:08.66
as he wrestled with him.
00:21:08.70\00:21:11.37
And he said, Let me
go, for the day breaketh.
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And he said, I
will not let thee go,
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except thou bless me.
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And he said unto
him, What is thy name?
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And he said,
Jacob." Verse 28 says,
00:21:20.91\00:21:23.08
"And he said, Thy name
shall be called no more Jacob,
00:21:23.11\00:21:26.05
but Israel for as a
prince hast thou power
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with God and with
men, and hast prevailed.
00:21:28.88\00:21:32.92
And Jacob asked him, and said,
Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.
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And he said,
Wherefore is it that thou
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dost ask after my name?
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And he blessed him there."
00:21:42.33\00:21:43.67
So let's understand
something, a few things here.
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Jacob is on his way back home.
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He has been gone
now for 20 years.
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And in going home he
decides in verse 4 through 6
00:21:55.38\00:21:59.85
that he is going to offer
something to his brother Esau.
00:21:59.88\00:22:04.22
Verse 4 of 32 says, "And
he commanded them, saying,
00:22:04.25\00:22:07.69
Thus shall ye
speak unto my lord Esau,
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Thy servant Jacob saith thus,
I have sojourned with Laban,
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and stayed there until now
00:22:14.76\00:22:16.36
and I have oxen,
and asses, and flocks,
00:22:16.40\00:22:19.40
and menservants,
and womenservants,
00:22:19.43\00:22:21.50
I have sent to tell my Lord,
00:22:21.54\00:22:23.61
that I may find
grace in thy sight.
00:22:23.64\00:22:25.87
And the messengers
returned to Jacob, saying,
00:22:25.91\00:22:28.14
We came to thy brother Esau,
00:22:28.18\00:22:30.21
and also he cometh to meet thee,
00:22:30.25\00:22:32.88
and four hundred men with him.
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Then Jacob the Bible says
00:22:35.82\00:22:37.22
was greatly
afraid and distressed."
00:22:37.25\00:22:39.99
Here's what you
got to understand,
00:22:40.02\00:22:42.22
Jacob now is petrified.
Why is Jacob petrified?
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Well, let's go back a
little bit to the beginning
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in Genesis 25 that
leads us up to this point.
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If I may divulge for a second,
00:22:52.87\00:22:56.00
Esau is a father's met boy.
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He is a hunter.
00:22:59.11\00:23:00.44
Esau like being outside.
00:23:00.48\00:23:03.41
Jacob is a momma's boy,
00:23:03.45\00:23:06.61
he likes being
only inside cooking
00:23:06.65\00:23:09.08
and doing all the nice
stuff that momma boys do.
00:23:09.12\00:23:11.69
Now understand men
who are momma's boy.
00:23:11.72\00:23:14.42
I'm not saying that
there is anything wrong
00:23:14.46\00:23:16.49
with you being a momma's boy,
00:23:16.52\00:23:17.86
I'm just simply
identifying a fact.
00:23:17.89\00:23:20.50
And if your momma is
sitting next to you right now
00:23:20.53\00:23:22.70
she will greatly agree
with me that you are momma's boy
00:23:22.73\00:23:26.10
by the mere fact that I'm
talking about you in that way.
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But Esau is a hunter,
he like being outside.
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And so one of Jacob's
first acts of deception,
00:23:35.34\00:23:39.88
he bribed his
brother and says, man.
00:23:39.91\00:23:43.62
Esau came in and he was hungry.
00:23:43.65\00:23:47.49
Jacob said, listen I
will take care of you
00:23:47.52\00:23:50.46
if you just give
me your birthright.
00:23:50.49\00:23:52.26
Just hand that thing over I
got a nice potted soup here,
00:23:52.29\00:23:56.16
it tastes good.
00:23:56.20\00:23:57.77
Just hand it over.
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Now sometimes I think
that Jacob was born in the hood
00:23:59.50\00:24:02.04
because Jacob
is truly a hustler.
00:24:02.07\00:24:04.77
He knows how to
get what he wants.
00:24:04.81\00:24:06.57
He is a conman, he has it all
00:24:06.61\00:24:09.21
and it seems like
Jacob is one of the guys
00:24:09.24\00:24:11.15
I grew up with
in a city of Chicago
00:24:11.18\00:24:13.08
that no matter what he
always has some type of hustle
00:24:13.11\00:24:16.05
that's going on
and taking place.
00:24:16.08\00:24:19.45
And so Esau in
his famish decides
00:24:19.49\00:24:21.86
he is going to give up
his birthright just to eat.
00:24:21.89\00:24:25.63
The second stage
that he confronted Jacob
00:24:25.66\00:24:28.23
besides with his
mother whose name
00:24:28.26\00:24:29.83
by the way means a
planter or deceiver.
00:24:29.86\00:24:32.27
Jacob decides he and his mother,
00:24:32.30\00:24:33.87
momma's boy is gonna
create this great plan
00:24:33.90\00:24:35.87
because Isaac is dying.
00:24:35.90\00:24:38.41
He tells his son, hey, go out
00:24:38.44\00:24:40.41
and get me the
best venison you can get
00:24:40.44\00:24:42.94
and I'm going to bless you.
00:24:42.98\00:24:45.51
Momma overhears it and says,
00:24:45.55\00:24:47.68
You are not going
to do that to my boy.
00:24:47.72\00:24:49.82
I know the
prophecy of what was told
00:24:49.85\00:24:52.45
so I'm going to help
God out in this prophecy.
00:24:52.49\00:24:54.82
Jacob, come here, boy,
hurry up and come here.
00:24:54.86\00:24:58.86
I need you to take
the place of your brother.
00:24:58.89\00:25:01.06
Well, momma, I
don't look numb like Esau.
00:25:01.10\00:25:03.60
I'm not as hairy as him.
00:25:03.63\00:25:06.77
Trust me, I got you.
00:25:06.80\00:25:09.94
Jacob deceives his father.
00:25:09.97\00:25:13.31
Esau finds out
about it and momma says,
00:25:13.34\00:25:16.85
boy, you better get out of here
00:25:16.88\00:25:18.21
that your brother
is gonna kill you.
00:25:18.25\00:25:22.18
And trust me if he had
a big brother like I did
00:25:22.22\00:25:26.62
he know what that
means, here's what that means.
00:25:26.65\00:25:28.49
My big brother is
five years older than me
00:25:28.52\00:25:30.93
and my mother doesn't
notice, she know it now.
00:25:30.96\00:25:32.56
She will find out.
00:25:32.59\00:25:34.10
Whenever we would get in trouble
00:25:34.13\00:25:36.26
and my brother was the
one who led the trouble
00:25:36.30\00:25:38.10
he would punch me in
such a way to get my loyalty.
00:25:38.13\00:25:43.71
So he would hit
me boom in the arm
00:25:43.74\00:25:46.68
and that pain would just last
00:25:46.71\00:25:48.18
so that when momma
asks me what happened?
00:25:48.21\00:25:50.15
Nothing, momma.
00:25:50.18\00:25:52.85
Now if you had a big
brother like that who can punch,
00:25:52.88\00:25:55.98
you know, and my big
brother can fight, you hear me.
00:25:56.02\00:25:59.15
I tell a church
member, he is not in a church
00:25:59.19\00:26:00.62
I'm praying that
he gets in a church.
00:26:00.66\00:26:01.99
I tell church members,
listen, don't mess with me
00:26:02.02\00:26:03.69
I got a big brother
who is not in the church,
00:26:03.73\00:26:05.39
who is very protective.
00:26:05.43\00:26:06.76
I don't want to call
him on anybody, amen.
00:26:06.80\00:26:09.83
So make sure you treat me right,
00:26:09.86\00:26:12.33
so I don't have
to make a phone call.
00:26:12.37\00:26:15.24
But because Esau is older
00:26:15.27\00:26:17.71
and Jacob knew that his brother
00:26:17.74\00:26:19.71
would perhaps
kill him, he leaves.
00:26:19.74\00:26:24.28
Never again to see his mother,
never again to see his father,
00:26:24.31\00:26:27.88
and then we get to now.
00:26:27.92\00:26:31.39
He is on his way
00:26:31.42\00:26:32.75
and the brother
is definitely afraid.
00:26:32.79\00:26:36.93
The brother has
20 years of anger.
00:26:36.96\00:26:39.53
You ever met
somebody been angry that long?
00:26:39.56\00:26:42.23
Lord, have mercy
that's a long time
00:26:42.26\00:26:44.77
to be angry with somebody.
00:26:44.80\00:26:46.20
And not only that,
00:26:46.23\00:26:47.57
Esau is brining 400
soldiers to fight Jacob.
00:26:47.60\00:26:51.11
Have mercy, all Jacob
got his wives, some kids,
00:26:51.14\00:26:54.41
some servants and some animals.
00:26:54.44\00:26:56.88
He is not
prepared for war at all.
00:26:56.91\00:27:01.62
Now the Bible did
say in verse 1 of 32 that
00:27:01.65\00:27:04.39
there are two
angels accompanying him.
00:27:04.42\00:27:06.69
Patriarchs and
Prophets makes it clear
00:27:06.72\00:27:08.82
but Jacob is still afraid.
00:27:08.86\00:27:10.93
Are you with me so far?
00:27:10.96\00:27:13.33
So we got to understand
00:27:13.36\00:27:14.93
that this battle
is about to pursue
00:27:14.96\00:27:17.00
and Jacob goes into
this crisis management mode
00:27:17.03\00:27:20.50
where he is running,
hiding and about to fight.
00:27:20.54\00:27:24.97
So let's look at
this for a moment.
00:27:25.01\00:27:26.81
Five things I want to give you,
00:27:26.84\00:27:28.58
five things I want to give you.
00:27:28.61\00:27:30.45
Now understand as
Jacob is going back,
00:27:30.48\00:27:31.98
he is not converted yet
00:27:32.01\00:27:33.42
even though he has
had an experience with God
00:27:33.45\00:27:35.22
in Genesis 28.
00:27:35.25\00:27:36.69
He is not converted but
God wants him to be yet.
00:27:36.72\00:27:39.52
He is no where near
what God would have him.
00:27:39.55\00:27:42.29
And so he says,
it's time to return home.
00:27:42.32\00:27:44.69
It's time to go back to basics.
00:27:44.73\00:27:46.86
It's time for
you to leave Laban.
00:27:46.90\00:27:48.76
You've done some trickery over,
00:27:48.80\00:27:50.13
especially if you
read Genesis 29 and 30
00:27:50.17\00:27:52.97
at the baby making chapter.
00:27:53.00\00:27:54.80
I like to call it the
baby momma drama chapter.
00:27:54.84\00:27:58.41
Because
everybody was having babies
00:27:58.44\00:27:59.97
and Jacob was just
a woolly participant.
00:28:00.01\00:28:02.38
A mess, another story,
00:28:02.41\00:28:03.75
I can't talk
about that right now.
00:28:03.78\00:28:05.51
I got to keep
just rated PG, amen.
00:28:05.55\00:28:08.65
But boy, Jacob had some babies
and didn't mind saying, yes.
00:28:08.68\00:28:13.19
He says, you got to
get up out of there.
00:28:13.22\00:28:14.69
You've deceived
Laban, Laban deceived you,
00:28:14.72\00:28:16.62
you married the wrong woman.
00:28:16.66\00:28:18.03
So whole lot of mess,
00:28:18.06\00:28:19.96
just whole lot of mess going on.
00:28:20.00\00:28:21.83
So God says, look, it's
time for you to go home.
00:28:21.86\00:28:23.93
I need to clean you up.
00:28:23.97\00:28:26.23
But in going home you
got to face some things
00:28:26.27\00:28:28.57
that perhaps you
haven't face yet.
00:28:28.60\00:28:32.51
So our first point,
00:28:32.54\00:28:34.74
Genesis 24, Genesis
32 excuse me, verse 24.
00:28:34.78\00:28:39.58
Now imagine, let me
humanize this with you.
00:28:39.61\00:28:42.68
Imagine you go to
make peace with your enemy
00:28:42.72\00:28:46.65
and as you're going to
make peace with your enemy
00:28:46.69\00:28:48.59
you already know the prophecy,
00:28:48.62\00:28:49.96
you already know that
00:28:49.99\00:28:51.53
the angels already
told your mother that
00:28:51.56\00:28:53.33
the old is going
to serve the younger
00:28:53.36\00:28:55.80
but Jacob decides he
is going to try to bribe
00:28:55.83\00:28:58.90
Esau once again by
simply telling him,
00:28:58.93\00:29:01.14
my Lord, here's
what I got for you.
00:29:01.17\00:29:02.94
In other words, I'm your
servant knowing good and well
00:29:02.97\00:29:05.34
that that's not how Jacob
was playing this thing off.
00:29:05.37\00:29:08.41
And so he tried to bribe him
00:29:08.44\00:29:09.91
and no longer can he
bribe his way out of the scene.
00:29:09.94\00:29:12.48
It comes a point in time
00:29:12.51\00:29:13.85
that the things
that we used to do
00:29:13.88\00:29:15.62
God says it's not
going to work anymore
00:29:15.65\00:29:17.32
because I got
something in store for you
00:29:17.35\00:29:19.55
and you messed this
thing up long enough.
00:29:19.59\00:29:21.72
So it's time for Me to get
this thing in order with you.
00:29:21.76\00:29:24.06
And so in verse
24 the Bible says
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"And Jacob was left alone,
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and there
wrestled a man with him
00:29:31.13\00:29:32.93
until the breaking of the day."
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Point number
one, listen to me now.
00:29:34.77\00:29:37.11
God shows up at
midnight ready to fight.
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Listen, God shows
up at the darkest time
00:29:41.28\00:29:44.78
ready to fight.
00:29:44.81\00:29:46.15
Now Jacob had scattered
his families strategically.
00:29:46.18\00:29:48.62
He put some in this
wing, some over there.
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He sent some over there
00:29:50.92\00:29:52.25
but God shows up ready to fight.
00:29:52.29\00:29:53.86
Now I'm very creative so
don't take this disrespectfully.
00:29:53.89\00:29:56.86
I can only imagine
Christ showing up a ninja suit
00:29:56.89\00:30:02.00
jumping down on Jacob like,
00:30:02.03\00:30:05.47
and when you are
not prepared to fight
00:30:05.50\00:30:07.10
that thing
catches you off guard.
00:30:07.14\00:30:09.04
All you can do, if
you're from where I'm from
00:30:09.07\00:30:10.67
is just grab somebody
00:30:10.71\00:30:12.21
because you
know you about to get
00:30:12.24\00:30:13.58
the worst beat
down of your life.
00:30:13.61\00:30:15.84
So God shows up,
listen to me now,
00:30:15.88\00:30:17.88
at midnight at a time
that Jacob is not expecting
00:30:17.91\00:30:21.08
he is ready to fight.
00:30:21.12\00:30:22.45
When does God ever
show up ready to fight?
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He showed up ready to
fight this brother today.
00:30:25.25\00:30:27.86
It's a fight about to go,
00:30:27.89\00:30:29.36
they are about to go toe to toe
00:30:29.39\00:30:32.03
and Jacob is not ready.
00:30:32.06\00:30:33.40
He is already scared of Esau
00:30:33.43\00:30:35.73
and now this other
shows up at midnight.
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Point number one,
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God shows up at our darkest time
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when we least expect it.
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Understanding this sometimes
we have to wrestle with God
00:30:48.08\00:30:51.11
and sometimes that
thing may take all night long.
00:30:51.15\00:30:55.98
If you never wrestle with God
00:30:56.02\00:30:58.22
you don't
understand what I'm saying
00:30:58.25\00:30:59.59
but it comes a point
in everybody's experience.
00:30:59.62\00:31:01.72
I believe before
we get to the kingdom
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that you're gonna
have to wrestle with God
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and that thing is
gonna last all night long.
00:31:05.26\00:31:07.90
You may have to wrestle
with God about your children.
00:31:07.93\00:31:10.27
You have to wrestle
with God about your spouse.
00:31:10.30\00:31:12.17
You may have to wrestle
with God about your church.
00:31:12.20\00:31:13.97
You may have to
wrestle with God about your job
00:31:14.00\00:31:15.60
and you will find that, shoot,
00:31:15.64\00:31:16.97
but you may have to
wrestle with God about you,
00:31:17.01\00:31:18.64
and sometimes that
thing takes all night long.
00:31:18.67\00:31:21.61
There are times I
have wrestled with God,
00:31:21.64\00:31:23.45
beat my couch,
00:31:23.48\00:31:24.81
wishing I can swing on
Him and hit Him if I could
00:31:24.85\00:31:26.65
because we've had to wrestle.
00:31:26.68\00:31:29.68
And understand that
nobody can wrestle with.
00:31:29.72\00:31:31.55
It's not like WWE where
you can tag thing somebody
00:31:31.59\00:31:34.16
and they can jump off
the rope and dive on them.
00:31:34.19\00:31:35.96
It ain't like that here.
00:31:35.99\00:31:37.99
It's just you and God.
00:31:38.03\00:31:39.36
You can tag all day
long but your partner like,
00:31:39.39\00:31:41.16
I'm not messing with
Him. He got ninja suit on.
00:31:41.20\00:31:47.37
But many times,
brothers and sisters,
00:31:47.40\00:31:48.90
we don't like wrestling
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because wrestling
exposes who we are
00:31:51.44\00:31:54.71
and it also
exposes our weaknesses.
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Point number one,
00:31:58.55\00:32:00.28
sometimes it
takes wrestle with God.
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Verse 25, listen how I read it.
00:32:03.75\00:32:06.55
"And when" big "he saw that"
00:32:06.59\00:32:11.49
big "he prevailed
not against"little "him,"
00:32:11.53\00:32:15.40
big "he touched the
hollow of his thigh,
00:32:15.43\00:32:19.03
and the hollow of
Jacob's thigh was out of joint,
00:32:19.07\00:32:22.17
as" little "he
wrestled with him."
00:32:22.20\00:32:25.37
Point number two,
00:32:25.41\00:32:26.74
God is losing the battle.
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When did you ever
see God losing a battle?
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God is losing the
battle against Jacob right now.
00:32:37.49\00:32:41.56
He is not winning.
00:32:41.59\00:32:43.06
How do I know?
00:32:43.09\00:32:44.43
Because He went
to some tactical that
00:32:44.46\00:32:46.66
He didn't go to
before when He touched him,
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I'll come there in a moment.
But He is losing the battle.
00:32:48.26\00:32:51.23
Listen to me, y'all,
God will lose the battle,
00:32:51.27\00:32:54.17
the only way He
can lose the battle
00:32:54.20\00:32:56.07
if you and I don't
surrender fully to Christ.
00:32:56.10\00:33:00.24
God is not looking
for a partial surrender.
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He is not looking for
three quarters of a surrender,
00:33:02.88\00:33:05.05
He is looking for all
surrender and all of nothing.
00:33:05.08\00:33:08.22
James 4:7 says, "Submit
to God and resist the devil
00:33:08.25\00:33:11.65
and he will flee from you."
00:33:11.69\00:33:13.69
He is not looking for,
00:33:13.72\00:33:15.06
Lord, I'm gonna
surrender just a little bit.
00:33:15.09\00:33:16.56
He needs all of
you and not some of you
00:33:16.59\00:33:18.86
and the only way God can lose
00:33:18.89\00:33:20.73
if we don't give all the way in.
00:33:20.76\00:33:24.63
That's the only way He can lose
00:33:24.67\00:33:26.70
and He will
lose us to the enemy.
00:33:26.74\00:33:28.20
He will lose us to death.
00:33:28.24\00:33:29.57
He will lose us to the world
00:33:29.60\00:33:31.27
if we don't give
all of our self to God.
00:33:31.31\00:33:35.34
But because God is a soul loser
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He doesn't like to lose.
00:33:45.49\00:33:49.39
He knows exactly
how to begin to win.
00:33:49.42\00:33:53.86
Point number three,
00:33:53.90\00:33:58.10
God has to get
ready to break you
00:33:58.13\00:34:01.17
before He blesses you.
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Now listen to me, now it
may seem dirty in verse 25
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how God is seemly
losing and the Bible says that
00:34:07.11\00:34:11.55
He just took his
joints out of place.
00:34:11.58\00:34:14.75
You know, it seems
like a fight is unfair
00:34:14.78\00:34:16.99
when you got
something on your opponent
00:34:17.02\00:34:19.55
where in this case God
is trying to save a life
00:34:19.59\00:34:23.06
not lose a life.
00:34:23.09\00:34:24.43
And so He will do
any means necessary
00:34:24.46\00:34:26.26
to make sure that He
is winning that life.
00:34:26.29\00:34:28.13
Are you with me so far?
00:34:28.16\00:34:29.50
And so as He is battling
him He sees that He is losing
00:34:29.53\00:34:32.70
and as He is losing He says,
00:34:32.73\00:34:34.50
okay, I'm going to
employ some tactics that
00:34:34.54\00:34:36.74
no man can do because
I'm trying to save this man
00:34:36.77\00:34:39.81
and not lose this man.
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Pastor Lomacang,
come on now for me.
00:34:41.31\00:34:42.68
Now I need you to show you
this illustration if I may.
00:34:42.71\00:34:45.51
I need to show
you how this looks.
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Now I'm going to be Jacob
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and we are going to let
Pastor Lomacang be Jesus.
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Amen.
00:34:52.99\00:34:56.39
Jesus has a nice hair do. Amen.
00:34:56.42\00:34:58.66
So you are going to
be Jesus and I'm Jacob
00:35:00.26\00:35:02.33
and let's pretend
like we are now battling.
00:35:02.36\00:35:05.90
All right. All right.
00:35:05.93\00:35:09.27
He is kind of aggressive.
00:35:09.30\00:35:10.64
He has not lost
his street savvy.
00:35:10.67\00:35:13.41
So-- now are we dancing?
00:35:13.44\00:35:16.28
Okay, all right. All right.
00:35:16.31\00:35:17.85
So we in a battle
and then all of a sudden
00:35:17.88\00:35:21.88
he hits me in the joints.
00:35:21.92\00:35:25.19
So as he hits me in the joint,
00:35:25.22\00:35:26.59
guess what happens?
00:35:26.62\00:35:27.96
I have to what? Hold on.
00:35:27.99\00:35:29.32
Listen to me now, I
got to what? Hold on.
00:35:29.36\00:35:31.89
Who am I holding on to? Jesus.
00:35:31.93\00:35:34.20
So as Jesus is moving
I'm holding down to Him.
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As He moving and as He's going.
00:35:36.87\00:35:38.97
Oh, you haven't got it again.
00:35:39.00\00:35:40.34
Listen to me now, why
didn't he hit me in arm?
00:35:40.37\00:35:42.40
Because then I got another arm.
00:35:42.44\00:35:43.77
Why didn't he
hit him in the leg?
00:35:43.81\00:35:45.14
Because I got another leg.
00:35:45.17\00:35:46.51
But when he hit me in the
hip I got to hold on to him.
00:35:46.54\00:35:48.81
And as I'm hold on to him
00:35:48.84\00:35:50.21
I'm going to limp
00:35:50.25\00:35:51.58
and he's got me
as we are moving.
00:35:51.61\00:35:52.95
Why? Because he is my security.
00:35:52.98\00:35:55.08
He is my blanket.
00:35:55.12\00:35:56.45
He has me but if I,
00:35:56.48\00:35:58.12
if I just have the
other arm I'm still fighting.
00:35:58.15\00:36:00.62
Why, because it comes a time
00:36:00.66\00:36:02.26
that you and I have
to completely surrender.
00:36:02.29\00:36:04.56
Stay here, you
will have to completely
00:36:04.59\00:36:06.46
surrender to God.
00:36:06.49\00:36:07.90
We cannot get-- we
cannot not give in.
00:36:07.93\00:36:11.37
So listen to me,
00:36:11.40\00:36:12.73
when you get hit in your
hip, oh, you got to hold on.
00:36:12.77\00:36:14.60
And as Jesus
moving, go as he moves
00:36:14.64\00:36:16.60
I move along with.
00:36:16.64\00:36:17.97
I maybe limping but I'm moving
00:36:18.01\00:36:19.47
and I'm holding and
I'm not letting Him go.
00:36:19.51\00:36:21.68
Why? Because He is my
security and He is blanket.
00:36:21.71\00:36:26.55
Are you with me so far?
00:36:26.58\00:36:28.48
So it makes sense
when he hit him in the hip.
00:36:28.52\00:36:30.65
Why hit him on the
head? It's not going do none.
00:36:30.69\00:36:32.82
Why hit him in the arm?
It's not going to do anything.
00:36:32.85\00:36:34.59
Why hit him in the leg?
00:36:34.62\00:36:35.96
He can just do this
and keep on fighting.
00:36:35.99\00:36:37.89
When you hit him in the
hip, now you got to hold on.
00:36:37.93\00:36:44.37
You got to hold Him
now and not let Him go.
00:36:44.40\00:36:47.80
Why?
00:36:47.84\00:36:49.17
Because He is
trying to bless you.
00:36:49.20\00:36:51.01
But in order to bless you
He got to break you first.
00:36:51.04\00:36:53.71
And because we
don't like getting broken
00:36:53.74\00:36:55.51
we want to be blessed
without the brokenness
00:36:55.54\00:36:57.41
and it's not gonna happen.
00:36:57.45\00:36:59.11
God got to
break us somehow. Why?
00:36:59.15\00:37:01.15
Because then
that's gonna make us
00:37:01.18\00:37:02.52
hold on to Him little tighter
00:37:02.55\00:37:03.89
so that as I'm
limping I'm still holding.
00:37:03.92\00:37:06.29
Why? Because it
gives me security.
00:37:06.32\00:37:08.72
It gives me
faith. It gives me hope.
00:37:08.76\00:37:11.33
It gives me power
00:37:11.36\00:37:12.69
because I'm still
holding on to the Savior, y'all.
00:37:12.73\00:37:15.96
Amen. That's
what I'm hold on to.
00:37:16.00\00:37:17.57
So even though
I'm hip out of socket
00:37:17.60\00:37:19.60
I got someone holding on to.
00:37:19.63\00:37:21.27
It's not like He hit
me and then stepped back
00:37:21.30\00:37:23.67
and fell and then
He start stomping me.
00:37:23.71\00:37:25.81
He didn't do that.
00:37:25.84\00:37:27.21
As He broke me
He says now grab me.
00:37:27.24\00:37:29.54
Now hold Me.
00:37:29.58\00:37:31.11
I've been trying to
do this for a long time.
00:37:31.15\00:37:33.31
I've been trying to do
this for while in your life
00:37:33.35\00:37:35.32
but you weren't listening.
00:37:35.35\00:37:36.72
You couldn't hear Me
then so I got to break you.
00:37:36.75\00:37:41.12
Are you with me so far? Amen.
00:37:41.16\00:37:43.53
God don't mind
playing as we would call dirty
00:37:43.56\00:37:46.70
if He needs to save you.
00:37:46.73\00:37:49.06
Are you with me so far? Amen.
00:37:49.10\00:37:50.93
So God has to break
us before He blesses us
00:37:50.97\00:37:54.40
and if you look at
the next part of it,
00:37:54.44\00:37:57.31
in the next verse and He says,
00:37:57.34\00:37:59.81
"Let me go, for
the day breaketh."
00:37:59.84\00:38:02.01
And He says, I will not
let you go, until you what?
00:38:02.04\00:38:04.51
Blesses me.
00:38:04.55\00:38:05.88
Jacob understood now
00:38:05.91\00:38:07.25
that God had to
break Him in order to what?
00:38:07.28\00:38:09.65
Bless him.
00:38:09.68\00:38:11.02
See, listen to me, y'all,
00:38:11.05\00:38:12.39
I have been
through a trial in my life
00:38:12.42\00:38:13.76
where God had to break
me before He blessed me.
00:38:13.79\00:38:16.52
See I love
blessings. I hate breakings.
00:38:16.56\00:38:18.89
But He says,
Cory, understand this.
00:38:18.93\00:38:20.73
In order for me to
bless you like I need to
00:38:20.76\00:38:22.83
I got to break you down.
00:38:22.86\00:38:24.27
Why? Because you can't handle
the blessing the way you are.
00:38:24.30\00:38:27.40
I got to make sure
you can handle my blessing
00:38:27.44\00:38:29.47
so I got to break you.
00:38:29.50\00:38:30.84
So I can make--
you can make sure
00:38:30.87\00:38:32.37
that you hold on to
Me and not yourself.
00:38:32.41\00:38:35.04
Amen. Are you with me so far?
00:38:35.08\00:38:38.18
See there are blessings
that we just can't handle
00:38:38.21\00:38:40.28
because we are
not spiritually ready
00:38:40.32\00:38:42.05
until God breaks us
and then you can handle it.
00:38:42.08\00:38:44.55
Are you with me so far?
00:38:44.59\00:38:45.92
It's at that point
that God can now trust you
00:38:45.95\00:38:48.92
to take what's needed.
00:38:48.96\00:38:50.29
If He would have
took Jacob the way he was,
00:38:50.33\00:38:52.19
Jacob was still deceiving.
Jacob was still a hustler.
00:38:52.23\00:38:54.96
He was still a liar.
00:38:55.00\00:38:56.33
He was sleeping
with all the women
00:38:56.36\00:38:57.70
and but now he is broken now.
00:38:57.73\00:39:00.20
And all he got is a
Savior to hold on to.
00:39:00.24\00:39:03.54
Are you with me so far? Amen.
00:39:03.57\00:39:05.67
All he got is a
Savior to hold on to.
00:39:05.71\00:39:07.84
Listen to me, I can understand.
00:39:07.88\00:39:09.61
Listen I've been
in thing since '97.
00:39:09.64\00:39:12.45
I started in ministry in 2001,
00:39:12.48\00:39:15.65
2002 fulltime with
Michigan Conference
00:39:15.68\00:39:17.79
and the Lord
started taking me places
00:39:17.82\00:39:21.76
that I couldn't
even speak or spell.
00:39:21.79\00:39:25.89
Didn't understand
it and as a young man,
00:39:25.93\00:39:28.50
Ellen White says
that most dangerous thing
00:39:28.53\00:39:30.93
for a young preacher
is flattery and success.
00:39:30.97\00:39:35.34
And, folk, enjoy my
story of become a black pastor
00:39:35.37\00:39:41.08
from a Black Muslim
and a Black Panther.
00:39:41.11\00:39:43.08
They love that so I'm
speaking at camp meetings,
00:39:43.11\00:39:45.28
I'm speaking in
the kingdom of Tonga.
00:39:45.31\00:39:47.15
I 'm speaking in South America.
00:39:47.18\00:39:48.72
I'm speaking everywhere
not-- I don't know nobody.
00:39:48.75\00:39:51.92
Didn't go to our
schools, didn't go--
00:39:51.95\00:39:53.92
I just went to a
little school called
00:39:53.96\00:39:55.46
the Mission College of
Evangelism in Black Hills.
00:39:55.49\00:39:58.56
Got ordained
and I'm just moving.
00:39:58.59\00:40:02.66
2011, God gives me a church
00:40:02.70\00:40:08.34
called Burns Avenue,
00:40:08.37\00:40:11.57
one of the largest churches
in Lake Region Conference.
00:40:11.61\00:40:14.84
I'm sitting on cloud nine.
00:40:14.88\00:40:17.71
Five months
into it God broke me.
00:40:17.75\00:40:20.72
My wife decided that
time, this relationship is over.
00:40:22.82\00:40:28.82
No more church life, no
more first lady, it's over.
00:40:28.86\00:40:34.23
I'm leaving you,
I'm done with life.
00:40:34.26\00:40:38.13
I'm like, Lord, is
this is a bad dream?
00:40:38.17\00:40:42.94
I couldn't understand it.
00:40:42.97\00:40:45.87
Handed me a note on
September 18th, 2011,
00:40:45.91\00:40:52.01
one year almost the
day of our anniversary
00:40:52.05\00:40:55.72
later that I'm going.
00:40:55.75\00:41:00.19
My kids like, dad,
what's really going on.
00:41:00.22\00:41:03.63
I'm like, I really don't know.
00:41:03.66\00:41:06.39
Say I can't do this no more.
00:41:06.43\00:41:08.56
You're not here.
00:41:08.60\00:41:10.47
You're going and
preaching everywhere,
00:41:10.50\00:41:11.83
you are doing
this, I just can't do it.
00:41:11.87\00:41:16.60
I was broken.
00:41:16.64\00:41:18.34
Listen to me now, broken,
two years I'm mad at Jesus,
00:41:18.37\00:41:23.01
mad at the
world, mad at everybody.
00:41:23.04\00:41:26.11
My family, mad at everybody.
00:41:26.15\00:41:28.75
Fighting God on my couch,
trying to get out of ministry.
00:41:28.78\00:41:31.59
Why should I do
this right now, Lord?
00:41:31.62\00:41:33.36
This doesn't
mean anything to me.
00:41:33.39\00:41:35.72
He broke me
00:41:35.76\00:41:38.59
but I had to start grabbing Him.
00:41:38.63\00:41:42.60
He trying to show me, boy,
I'm just trying to bless you.
00:41:42.63\00:41:46.37
And even though this brokenness
is more than you can take.
00:41:46.40\00:41:50.44
I got you,
00:41:50.47\00:41:52.27
and once I realized
from rereading that story,
00:41:52.31\00:41:56.01
once I realized that I have been
00:41:56.04\00:41:59.18
trying to get all
blessings and not be broken.
00:41:59.21\00:42:02.02
He said, I got to break you.
00:42:02.05\00:42:04.29
Hardest thing in the world
00:42:04.32\00:42:05.65
is stand up
before crowds of people.
00:42:05.69\00:42:08.06
And when they introduce you,
they introduce your three kids
00:42:08.09\00:42:09.92
and the first
question they ask is,
00:42:09.96\00:42:11.53
so you are not married?
00:42:11.56\00:42:13.53
Part of me want to say,
00:42:13.56\00:42:14.90
didn't you hear
the introduction?
00:42:14.93\00:42:16.26
Did you hear
wife in the picture?
00:42:16.30\00:42:18.93
But in my humility I said no,
00:42:18.97\00:42:20.97
I went through a
tragedy, because indeed it was.
00:42:21.00\00:42:24.31
But He had to break me off
00:42:24.34\00:42:26.41
and the breaking,
listen to me it hurts.
00:42:26.44\00:42:30.98
It hurts.
00:42:31.01\00:42:32.78
Because you good
folk don't ever think
00:42:32.81\00:42:35.02
preachers go through
divorces, but guess what?
00:42:35.05\00:42:38.45
We do, and I'm part of
the divorce club now, right.
00:42:38.49\00:42:43.83
Because we are human
just like the next person.
00:42:43.86\00:42:49.50
So He had to break me.
00:42:49.53\00:42:51.50
So listen to me
now, listen to me now.
00:42:51.53\00:42:55.10
Jacob says, point number four,
00:42:55.14\00:42:57.24
God instructs Jacob to
let him go before daybreak
00:42:57.27\00:42:59.97
because no man
can see Me and live.
00:43:00.01\00:43:02.54
And so Jacob says,
Jacob says, listen to me now.
00:43:02.58\00:43:05.21
He says, listen, I
need you to bless me now.
00:43:05.25\00:43:07.05
Now listen to me,
00:43:07.08\00:43:08.42
in the midst of
his disobedience,
00:43:08.45\00:43:10.15
listen to me closely.
00:43:10.19\00:43:11.52
Listen, this is
good part I like.
00:43:11.55\00:43:12.89
In the midst of
Jacob's disobedience...
00:43:12.92\00:43:14.26
God blessed him. How do I know?
00:43:14.29\00:43:15.62
Because God said, "Let me go."
00:43:15.66\00:43:16.99
Is that a
command, yes or no? Yes.
00:43:17.03\00:43:18.53
If my momma tells me let
her go I better let her go.
00:43:18.56\00:43:21.16
Last time I told for,
my momma is this tall,
00:43:21.20\00:43:23.26
her fist is
this long, this wide,
00:43:23.30\00:43:25.20
because when she hit me before
she packs a powerful punch
00:43:25.23\00:43:28.17
that Mike Tyson couldn't take.
00:43:28.20\00:43:31.84
But if my little
bitty 5 foot 3 momma says,
00:43:31.87\00:43:35.08
Cory, let me go
00:43:35.11\00:43:36.44
and I got her,
listen, I better let her go.
00:43:36.48\00:43:38.41
I don't care if I'm
44 now, I'll let her go.
00:43:38.45\00:43:40.42
Jacob is told by Christ Himself,
00:43:40.45\00:43:42.72
let Me go and Jacob
disobeyed and says look,
00:43:42.75\00:43:46.05
I'm not gonna let You
go unless you bless me.
00:43:46.09\00:43:48.32
That is disobedience
but in the midst of that
00:43:48.36\00:43:50.93
God still blessed him,
00:43:50.96\00:43:52.29
so you good
folk stop saying that
00:43:52.33\00:43:53.66
God don't bless mess,
00:43:53.70\00:43:55.03
if he didn't, you
wouldn't be here today.
00:43:55.06\00:43:59.63
We all got messed up lives
that He continues to bless.
00:43:59.67\00:44:02.07
And we say God don't
bless mess. Why is that?
00:44:02.10\00:44:03.91
We've been messing
since Adam messed up.
00:44:03.94\00:44:06.31
Point number five, listen to me,
00:44:10.71\00:44:13.78
that at the end of this
all God will change your name.
00:44:13.82\00:44:19.12
You're no longer
after the breaking,
00:44:19.15\00:44:21.69
you're no longer
Jacob to deceive here.
00:44:21.72\00:44:24.36
You are now Israel the victor.
00:44:24.39\00:44:27.00
So I like to say
amen right now. Amen.
00:44:27.03\00:44:28.90
See God has to
break us to bless us.
00:44:28.93\00:44:32.07
And in order to break you,
00:44:32.10\00:44:33.47
you got to be
willing to be broken.
00:44:33.50\00:44:35.20
And so God got
to get you in a spot
00:44:35.24\00:44:36.91
that only you
and Him can battle in
00:44:36.94\00:44:39.17
and He is gonna,
He is gonna break you.
00:44:39.21\00:44:41.34
Now I can't say
what your breaking is
00:44:41.38\00:44:43.58
but I know what
my breaking has been.
00:44:43.61\00:44:45.38
And listen, God has
revived me in such a way.
00:44:45.41\00:44:48.48
He has done more for
me in this last two years
00:44:48.52\00:44:51.15
than He has done
in all the ministry.
00:44:51.19\00:44:52.72
Why? Because my
mind is different now.
00:44:52.75\00:44:54.66
My heart is different now.
00:44:54.69\00:44:56.19
My spirit is different now.
00:44:56.22\00:44:57.89
Everything about me
is different now. Why?
00:44:57.93\00:44:59.83
Because when He broke me
down to the very last compound
00:44:59.86\00:45:03.13
I could, only thing I
can do is just reach up
00:45:03.16\00:45:05.67
and hold Him and say,
Lord, thank You, Jesus.
00:45:05.70\00:45:08.00
Now I count it all joy
when I go through the mess.
00:45:08.04\00:45:10.91
Why? Because I've been broken.
00:45:10.94\00:45:12.77
And He says, it is
better to be broken
00:45:12.81\00:45:14.41
than allow the
rock to fall on you.
00:45:14.44\00:45:16.34
The problem is many of
us don't want to be broken.
00:45:16.38\00:45:18.81
See if you are a
knuckle head like me,
00:45:18.85\00:45:20.32
you need to be broken.
00:45:20.35\00:45:21.68
I'd rather limp into the kingdom
00:45:25.09\00:45:27.16
with a messed up here
than walk into hell like this.
00:45:27.19\00:45:32.39
Jacob is limping
00:45:32.43\00:45:34.46
but the Bible says
that when Christ comes
00:45:34.50\00:45:37.40
this mortality
will fall to immortality
00:45:37.43\00:45:40.00
and this old body I got,
this round figure right here
00:45:40.04\00:45:42.87
will not be the same again.
00:45:42.90\00:45:45.87
But He has to break us,
y'all, before He bless us.
00:45:45.91\00:45:50.15
And some of us just
don't want to be broken.
00:45:50.18\00:45:53.98
And so now Jacob is ready.
00:45:54.02\00:45:57.45
Now Jacob is ready to
live the life of Israel
00:45:57.49\00:46:02.72
and not of Jacob.
00:46:02.76\00:46:04.16
His past is now behind him.
00:46:04.19\00:46:07.03
His future is coming.
His present is bright.
00:46:07.06\00:46:12.47
And as young Louis
comes and sings the song
00:46:12.50\00:46:14.54
before we conclude
00:46:14.57\00:46:16.60
you and I need to
look at ourselves right now
00:46:16.64\00:46:19.84
and ask the question,
have I been broken yet?
00:46:19.87\00:46:25.41
Yes, you may have some blessings
00:46:25.45\00:46:29.05
but is it the s blessings that
God really wants you to have?
00:46:29.08\00:46:33.66
Is it all that
He would have of you
00:46:33.69\00:46:37.23
or is it just
sprinkled blessings?
00:46:37.26\00:46:39.73
He wants to give
all of His blessing.
00:46:39.76\00:46:43.67
In order to give
all of His blessings
00:46:43.70\00:46:45.97
He has to break us.
00:46:46.00\00:46:49.40
Friend, are you
weary and troubled?
00:47:12.79\00:47:20.54
No light in the
darkness you see?
00:47:20.57\00:47:27.71
There's light for
a look at the Savior
00:47:27.74\00:47:35.68
And life more abundant and free!
00:47:35.72\00:47:42.02
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
00:47:46.09\00:47:54.04
Look full in His wonderful face
00:47:54.07\00:48:01.14
And the things of earth
00:48:04.05\00:48:08.48
Will grow strangely dim
00:48:08.52\00:48:13.79
In the light of
His glory and grace
00:48:13.82\00:48:21.73
His Word shall not fail you
00:48:33.84\00:48:37.95
He promised
00:48:37.98\00:48:41.92
Believe Him and all will be well
00:48:41.95\00:48:49.46
Then go to a world that is dying
00:48:49.49\00:48:57.27
His perfect salvation to tell!
00:48:57.30\00:49:03.00
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
00:49:09.94\00:49:17.85
Look full in His wonderful face
00:49:17.89\00:49:25.76
And the things of this world
00:49:28.10\00:49:32.73
Will grow strangely dim
00:49:32.77\00:49:37.94
In the light of His glory
00:49:37.97\00:49:42.74
In the light of His glory
00:49:42.78\00:49:48.12
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
00:49:48.15\00:49:55.92
Look full in His wonderful face
00:49:57.49\00:50:05.13
And the things of earth
00:50:07.14\00:50:11.07
Will grow strangely dim
00:50:11.11\00:50:16.78
In the light of
His glory and grace
00:50:16.81\00:50:24.75
And the things of earth
00:50:27.26\00:50:31.59
Will grow strangely dim
00:50:31.63\00:50:39.53
In the light of His glory
00:50:39.57\00:50:46.61
And grace
00:50:49.01\00:50:56.95
I'm gonna ask you
to do something that
00:51:10.53\00:51:15.30
may be quite challenging.
00:51:15.34\00:51:16.67
Because many times
when appeals are made
00:51:19.87\00:51:24.21
we think it's for someone else.
00:51:24.25\00:51:25.88
And as young Louis just sung
00:51:29.22\00:51:32.35
we need to turn
our eyes upon Jesus.
00:51:32.39\00:51:39.46
So often we look at others
00:51:39.49\00:51:43.90
and how they need to
turn their eyes upon Jesus.
00:51:43.93\00:51:49.40
Some of us like Jacob
00:51:49.44\00:51:51.64
are still dealing with
issues of 20 years ago.
00:51:51.67\00:51:56.88
If God was to
place your thoughts
00:51:56.91\00:51:59.65
upon the screen
today what would it read?
00:51:59.68\00:52:03.79
Pure thoughts, unholy
thoughts, mean thoughts,
00:52:03.82\00:52:08.42
unforgiving
thoughts, unmerciful thoughts.
00:52:08.46\00:52:11.96
What would it read today?
00:52:11.99\00:52:15.06
God wanted Jacob
to come back home
00:52:15.10\00:52:17.77
almost symbolic of us
getting ready to go home soon
00:52:17.80\00:52:22.30
and in between home
and leaving this Earth
00:52:22.34\00:52:26.81
there is a wrestle
that need to take place.
00:52:26.84\00:52:29.88
And so there are people
watching all across the world,
00:52:29.91\00:52:33.78
they need to see that
this place, this Worship Center
00:52:33.82\00:52:37.49
can also turn
their eyes upon Jesus.
00:52:37.52\00:52:40.69
So as your eyes
are closed this moment
00:52:40.72\00:52:43.26
at home and in
this Worship Center,
00:52:43.29\00:52:45.69
is there somebody here right now
00:52:45.73\00:52:49.40
that will stand up
and come down to the front
00:52:49.43\00:52:52.57
and say, I need to
turn my eyes on Jesus.
00:52:52.60\00:52:58.57
I need to be
broken, to be blessed.
00:52:58.61\00:53:02.91
I'm in need of that breaking.
00:53:02.94\00:53:06.21
And if that's you, why
don't you come down right now
00:53:06.25\00:53:09.28
and say, Lord, I
need to be broken.
00:53:09.32\00:53:13.22
I'm being, God
bless you my, sister,
00:53:13.25\00:53:15.72
I'm being blessed
00:53:15.76\00:53:18.93
but there are
some things in my life
00:53:18.96\00:53:21.23
that I need to get together.
00:53:21.26\00:53:24.07
Won't you come down?
00:53:24.10\00:53:25.43
Don't sit pious today,
let the folk around the world
00:53:25.47\00:53:28.70
see that there is
a Jesus in this place
00:53:28.74\00:53:32.11
that can bring
folk to a blessing
00:53:32.14\00:53:35.31
but a breaking first.
00:53:35.34\00:53:37.11
Come on down.
00:53:37.15\00:53:38.48
I don't care how long
you've been in the church.
00:53:38.51\00:53:40.65
Listen, she says, that names
00:53:40.68\00:53:42.25
on the church
rolls mean nothing,
00:53:42.28\00:53:44.95
especially if they are
not registered in the kingdom.
00:53:44.99\00:53:47.69
Sometimes we can
be some of the most
00:53:47.72\00:53:49.52
meanest and
impatient folk there is.
00:53:49.56\00:53:52.46
You need to come down
today and say, Lord, I need you.
00:53:52.49\00:53:56.60
Lord, I can't go without you.
00:53:56.63\00:53:59.17
Lord, help me
through the situation.
00:53:59.20\00:54:01.80
I need to be broken, Lord.
00:54:01.84\00:54:03.77
Because if you are not
broken He can't bless you.
00:54:03.81\00:54:06.27
If He can't bless
you He can't take you.
00:54:06.31\00:54:08.54
If He can't take you
then the enemy got you.
00:54:08.58\00:54:10.85
So it is better to be broken.
00:54:10.88\00:54:12.78
Yes, the breaking hurts.
00:54:14.38\00:54:16.28
Yes, it doesn't feel good.
00:54:16.32\00:54:18.39
Yes, it's painful.
00:54:18.42\00:54:20.29
Sometimes it may
last longer than you want
00:54:20.32\00:54:22.36
but listen to me
now, it's wroth it.
00:54:22.39\00:54:25.99
It's worth it.
00:54:26.03\00:54:27.80
It's worth every piece
of it and understand this,
00:54:27.83\00:54:30.27
when God breaks you He
breaks in the right place.
00:54:30.30\00:54:34.34
He puts-- He breaks
you in the right place
00:54:34.37\00:54:36.30
so that He can bring you back.
00:54:36.34\00:54:39.17
It's okay to be broken.
00:54:39.21\00:54:41.64
It's okay to be broken.
00:54:41.68\00:54:44.91
All He is trying
to do is bless you.
00:54:44.95\00:54:47.42
All He is trying
to do is save you.
00:54:47.45\00:54:49.48
All He is trying to do
is make you victorious.
00:54:49.52\00:54:54.06
But He can't do it if
you don't fully surrender
00:54:54.09\00:54:59.69
and God doesn't like to lose.
00:54:59.73\00:55:02.36
He didn't die on
the cross to lose.
00:55:02.40\00:55:05.57
He didn't go
through the scourge to lose.
00:55:05.60\00:55:08.50
He didn't go
through humiliation to lose.
00:55:08.54\00:55:11.27
He went through
all of that so that
00:55:11.31\00:55:12.91
when He rose again
He would see you and me.
00:55:12.94\00:55:17.35
At this trump of the sound
00:55:17.38\00:55:19.35
when He break through the clouds
00:55:19.38\00:55:21.38
the Bible says that
00:55:21.42\00:55:22.75
the "Dead in
Christ shall rise first,
00:55:22.78\00:55:26.15
and then we who
are alive and remain
00:55:26.19\00:55:28.12
shall be called up
in the air to meet Him
00:55:28.16\00:55:30.53
to ever be with the Lord."
00:55:30.56\00:55:31.93
In order for that to
happen it take broken people.
00:55:31.96\00:55:36.36
He's gonna bless us.
00:55:36.40\00:55:38.03
Anybody else?
00:55:38.07\00:55:40.27
Anybody else to say,
Lord, I need to be broken.
00:55:40.30\00:55:45.67
Eyes are closed here upfront.
00:55:45.71\00:55:47.04
Eyes are
closed. Eyes are closed.
00:55:47.08\00:55:49.21
Eyes are closed, I
don't know about you
00:55:49.24\00:55:51.28
but I want to
reach my hand to heaven.
00:55:51.31\00:55:53.08
I want to reach
my hand to heaven.
00:55:53.11\00:55:54.72
I want to reach
my hand to heaven
00:55:54.75\00:55:56.15
and if you are
comfortable doing that
00:55:56.18\00:55:57.55
just reach our hands up
00:55:57.59\00:55:58.92
so heaven can
reach down and touch us.
00:55:58.95\00:56:01.29
Lord, Father, in
the name of Jesus
00:56:01.32\00:56:04.39
we are praying right now,
00:56:04.43\00:56:06.86
praying, Lord,
asking that our lives
00:56:06.90\00:56:10.07
that are so disastrous
at times and so up and down.
00:56:10.10\00:56:14.00
You can bless it, Lord,
00:56:14.04\00:56:15.37
but we understand
that before the blessing,
00:56:15.40\00:56:18.04
Lord, there is a breaking
00:56:18.07\00:56:19.41
and that many of us have
ran from this breaking in.
00:56:19.44\00:56:21.88
Many of us have
avoided the breaking but, Lord,
00:56:21.91\00:56:23.98
we know now that
we need to be broken
00:56:24.01\00:56:26.58
in order to be blessed, Lord.
00:56:26.61\00:56:29.05
We can't go without it, Lord.
00:56:29.08\00:56:31.05
Save these characters
in the way that You need
00:56:31.09\00:56:33.79
and some of us
just has to be broken.
00:56:33.82\00:56:36.16
And, Lord, we know
that is going to hurt,
00:56:36.19\00:56:38.33
we know it's
gonna be painful but,
00:56:38.36\00:56:40.10
as long as we're
holding on to King Jesus
00:56:40.13\00:56:43.93
You help us do it all.
00:56:43.97\00:56:45.40
And so, Lord, I'm
praying for everybody
00:56:45.43\00:56:47.10
who is standing before me
00:56:47.14\00:56:48.47
and those who are viewing, Lord,
00:56:48.50\00:56:50.11
who are standing,
Lord, kneeling and begging
00:56:50.14\00:56:53.24
and pleading, Lord,
to be blessed, Lord.
00:56:53.27\00:56:55.91
Yes, we want the blessing
00:56:55.94\00:56:57.35
but, Lord, help
us in the breaking
00:56:57.38\00:57:00.88
and heal us according, Lord,
00:57:00.92\00:57:02.25
so that when You
shall come in those clouds
00:57:02.28\00:57:06.82
we shall be ready
to meet our Savior.
00:57:06.86\00:57:09.82
Isaiah 25:9 says,
"Lo, this is our Savior,
00:57:09.86\00:57:12.79
we have waited for Him,
He has come to take us."
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Lord, this is
our martyrdom today,
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this is our prayer, Lord.
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Get us there, Lord,
by any means necessary.
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Some of us, Lord,
are broken for our kids
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and broken for our spouses
and broken for our loved ones.
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Lord, we are praying
right now for healing.
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We are praying right
now, Lord, for a blessing.
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We are praying right now,
holding on to Your promises,
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heavenly Father.
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Don't forsake us, Lord.
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You promised to
care of us and so, Lord,
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we relinquish our rights
and give them all to You today
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and to heal us.
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On this glorious
Sabbath day we pray
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in no other name unto
Heaven that can save men.
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In Jesus name,
amen, amen and amen.
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God bless you, God keep you.
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