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00:10 In the book of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 6.
00:17 I'm going to begin reading at verse 11, even though I pointed out that we would start at 13.
00:28 Hebrews chapter 11, no, verse 11 of chapter 6 says, "And we desire that every one of you
00:34 do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end,
00:41 that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience
00:49 inherit the promises.
00:53 For when God made promise to Abraham because he could swear by no greater,
00:58 he swore by himself, saying, 'Surely, blessing I will bless thee,
01:04 multiplying I will multiply thee.'
01:08 And so after he, Abraham, had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
01:16 For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
01:23 Wherein God, oh yes, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise
01:31 the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath
01:39 that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie,
01:46 we may have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.
01:55 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
02:03 which entereth into that within the veil whether the forerunner is for us entered even Jesus,
02:09 made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
02:15 I want you to look at somebody like you're angry with them,
02:19 and say, 'I still expect my promise.'
02:25 Look at somebody like you're mad with them on the other side,
02:31 and say, 'It's got to come to pass.'
02:34 It's got to come.
02:37 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord.
02:43 After listening to all of the marvelous hymns that we heard today,
03:01 I am now at the age where I take a seat,
03:07 and I do a little lecturing.
03:11 You know, after a while, I look back at the days when I was crawling,
03:17 and I said to myself, 'Oh my God, who is that person?'
03:29 But as life goes on, we evolve.
03:33 And very definitely, I am passing out of this generation.
03:41 There's a time when all of us were optimum within the parameters of the generation that God placed us in.
03:48 And then as time goes on, we become less connected to the contemporary environment
03:58 that we used to be so significant in.
04:02 You know, you move from the baby boomers to the Xs,
04:10 and now you've got millennials and Zs.
04:14 And the only thing that really keeps us--
04:17 Everything has an expiration date.
04:24 But the only thing that keeps us connected is dealing with these young men and young women
04:30 who are connected to the contemporary environment that we are passing out of.
04:36 And so as mentors, we listen to the mentees,
04:42 and we begin to extend our shelf life.
04:50 Because now we get a better understanding of what's going on in the contemporary environment that we are passing out of.
04:58 So the mentor is being mentored by the mentee
05:04 as it relates to the contemporary environment that we no longer are connected to.
05:11 See, what they did a while ago was they took us back to the hymns.
05:17 See, it used to be somebody hymned it, then somebody gospeled it, then somebody rapped it.
05:23 And as we--
05:30 Well, I got a young wife, so I'm connected, but anyhow.
05:34 So what happened today
05:42 was they began to sing the hymns.
05:47 And the hymns threw me so far back
05:51 that it took me out of the lecturing chair.
05:55 And it says, "Maybe, Reverend, you met a hoop today."
05:59 So I don't know what will happen, but--
06:05 When you look at the Hebrew church, there is something significant about them
06:11 because the writers write into a group of churches,
06:16 and it's what they called a circular letter.
06:20 And what's going on in the Hebrew church is that
06:26 Judaism and Christianity was clashing.
06:32 And it was clashing very poignantly among the Hebrew Christians,
06:40 because being a Jew is not only related to their nationality,
06:49 but it's also a part of their religious belief.
06:53 And the religion and the political aspects of their lives were intertwined
06:59 so completely and so totally
07:03 that if you were to move from the religion,
07:08 you were literally moving from the very place of your ethnicity and racial foundation.
07:16 So they were having difficulties because now
07:20 they are following the carpenter's son from Nazareth,
07:24 and nobody is actually acknowledging,
07:30 except those that are Christians, that he is the Messiah.
07:36 If you check even in our contemporary world, you will find
07:39 that the Jews as a whole, the Jewish people as a whole,
07:43 don't believe that Jesus is or was the Messiah.
07:48 So give some consideration then to those who
07:53 had initially began to follow Christ, and
07:57 when you initially do something that is opposed to everybody around,
08:04 you have a proclivity or a penchant to
08:07 want Him to respond quickly
08:11 to show you that you are right.
08:17 I don't know if you've ever had a vision and God has shown you
08:21 and given you a certain direction, and
08:23 before it came to pass, you articulated it and
08:27 others around you thought that you had lost your mind.
08:33 Because they evaluated your circumstances or your situation and
08:38 they concluded that, based on what they are looking at,
08:45 we cannot understand how you could even think
08:50 that you could overcome what we're looking at
08:55 for what it is that you declare God is going to do for you.
09:01 I think in many instances we want God to instantly
09:07 show our critics
09:11 that what I am telling you He's going to do, He's going to do it.
09:18 But the problem comes when
09:22 He doesn't do it right away.
09:28 So now you have to deal with the naysayers
09:34 and all of those who have an opinion about
09:38 where you're going and what you're going to end up with
09:42 simply because they can't see it.
09:45 Well, they're not supposed to see it.
09:49 And really, for the most part, I don't think we should be upset
09:57 with people who doubt what God is saying.
10:00 Because if the promise was so magnanimous,
10:06 even when He gave it to you, you had to...
10:11 you had to figure it out yourself.
10:15 So if He gave it to you and you had a little difficulty getting up to it,
10:22 then understand that the neighbor who didn't hear from God
10:27 is going to have a little trouble getting it.
10:30 So don't let that discourage you.
10:34 But use it as a stimulus
10:40 to realize that it's really God.
10:43 Can I just say this?
10:47 We might have church after a while.
10:51 If you have no haters, you're not that gifted.
10:59 It is significant then that the battle is constant.
11:11 Because those who should know tend to struggle against falsity,
11:18 particularly when they had previous traditional associations
11:23 that are always beckoning.
11:26 As you walk with God, you will find that the world is always beckoning.
11:34 The flesh is always pulling on you,
11:37 and the devil is always seeking you out.
11:43 Add to that the fact that sometimes God is moving you beyond your tradition.
11:48 And because of that relationship with tradition,
11:52 you have to many times fight the people who are closest to you
11:58 in order to move away from what they have decided is the norm
12:05 for the way your life should go.
12:09 So you're not only fighting the outside forces, you're fighting the inside forces.
12:13 Because many people have decided that this is the way your life should go
12:18 because everybody else's life is going this way.
12:21 And you have to decide that the battle is not only for those on the outside,
12:26 but I've got to deal with those on the inside.
12:31 And so because he did not come as quickly as they wanted him to come,
12:38 God now has to move in a way that he motivates those of us who follow him.
12:45 It is an interesting thing that oftentimes he gives us and he strengthens us,
12:52 yes, with groanings that cannot be uttered.
12:57 That God begins to move into your spirit.
13:01 Can I dig a little deeper?
13:05 You see, the relationship with God, my relationship with God is not sensual.
13:11 My sensual perception does not connect me to anything that is spiritual.
13:18 My eyes, my nose, my mouth, my ears, my hands connect me to my world,
13:25 but they don't connect me to God.
13:29 Because of that, Jesus is never recognized, he's always revealed.
13:35 Oh yes, many times we look at people and we say, well, he or she is anointed.
13:42 You cannot assess anointing cognitively or intellectually
13:48 because anointing has to be revealed.
13:54 [Groans]
13:59 And when God has revealed something to you,
14:03 you cannot allow yourself to talk your way out of it because you don't see it.
14:10 Because it's not about seeing it, it's about it being revealed.
14:17 Can I go deeper before I go higher?
14:21 There were two boys in their mother's womb.
14:24 They were separated by two thin layers of cutaneous tissue.
14:29 When the mothers came together, one was Mary, the other was Elizabeth,
14:35 and there were two boys in their mother's womb.
14:38 Now, in their mother's womb, Jesus was not reading the Jerusalem Tribune in his mother's womb.
14:48 He is totally unconscious in his mother's womb.
14:52 They're connected umbilically, but there is no intellectual, cognitive, Aristotelian reasoning
14:59 while he is in his mother's womb.
15:02 The Bible said when the two mothers came together
15:06 that the child John, who is unconscious in his mother's womb,
15:12 the Bible said that the child leapt in his mother's womb.
15:18 John had a revelation of Jesus while he was unconscious in his mother's womb.
15:28 Now, a few years later, the conscious John sent word to Jesus
15:36 to ask, "Are you the one or should we look for another?"
15:41 Now, the unconscious John knew who Jesus is,
15:46 but the conscious John had trouble figuring him out.
15:51 Don't ever let your mind talk you out of your rebel.
15:55 [applause]
16:05 So, the struggle then is when you're seeking it to come into the realization of your perception.
16:17 God promised it, and because God understands the human behavior,
16:23 he has to motivate us, and the primary motivation that God gives and extends to us is love.
16:33 The truth is that faith worketh by love.
16:37 So, faith then becomes functional because faith is the "hupostasis,"
16:45 the substance of things hoped for.
16:47 It is the "elechos," or the evidence of things not seen.
16:55 The etymologists, Moulton and Mulligan, they say that faith then becomes a deed.
17:04 It becomes a title deed.
17:07 And when you study the etymologist, the point,
17:11 what he's saying is that faith is a title for things that you have not seen.
17:19 I buy real estate, and I have bought some real estate, and I never saw the property.
17:25 I heard it was a good deal, and I bought it, and somebody said, "Well, have you seen the property?"
17:32 I said, "Well, I don't really need to see the property because I have the deed."
17:40 You see, I feel like preaching.
17:44 [applause]
17:47 All right, hold it. I broke a fuse.
17:50 You see, it was the deed that Caleb had for 40 years.
17:58 And he held on to the deed because faith is the title deed of what God has promised you.
18:06 You have the deed in your spirit, and as long as you have the deed in your spirit,
18:14 the land is already yours.
18:17 And all God wants you to do is trust him, wait on him,
18:23 because he knows when to bring it to your sight.
18:27 I feel like preaching here.
18:29 But before he brings it to your sight, he's going to build you in your spirit
18:35 so that when he releases it, you will have the power to keep it
18:41 because he has already built you up for the...
18:44 [applause]
18:46 that he's about to give you.
18:48 I want you to touch your neighbor. I'm only going to do it seven times.
18:52 Touch your neighbor and say, "Neighbor, the gift is already yours.
18:57 You ain't ready for it yet.
19:00 Uh-huh. Just wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait."
19:04 He's building you up to the level of what he's going to release
19:10 so that when he releases it, you're mature enough to keep it
19:16 and give him the glory for it.
19:20 Ah, I feel like shouting here.
19:23 So then, because of that, there now abideth faith and hope and charity.
19:30 And if you understand that, then he declares the greatest of these, of course, is charity.
19:39 Because charity becomes the...
19:41 Yeah, the substratum of everything that's going to keep you and hold you together.
19:49 It's one thing when somebody says, "I don't love God," and that's a terrible thing.
19:56 But it's more terrible when you say, "God does not love you."
20:01 You see, it's an awful thing not to love God,
20:05 but never accuse God of not loving you.
20:09 Because the basis of everything that happens within the parameters of the human experience is the love of God.
20:21 Not the love for God, but the love of God.
20:27 He watched over you when you didn't love him.
20:32 He allowed the rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
20:37 So your praise is not because you love God.
20:42 Your praise should be because he loves you.
20:47 And when you could bring nothing to the table,
20:52 nothing to the table,
20:56 he made an arrangement so that your nothing becomes your contribution.
21:03 And we call that grace.
21:06 When you couldn't bring anything to the table,
21:09 he says, "All right, what are you going to bring?"
21:12 "Nothing." "Okay, I'll make nothing a prerequisite for our relationship."
21:18 So my strength is made perfect.
21:23 I wish somebody had given some praise.
21:26 It ain't because of you, it's all because of him.
21:30 And because of this then, he has said to us,
21:34 and he's shown us, you all sit down for a minute,
21:38 that faith and hope hang on love as branches on a tree.
21:44 Hope seems then to be shrouded into the very base of love and faith.
21:52 So what hope becomes then is the workhorse of distress.
21:58 Hope becomes that workhorse of tired patience or tried patience.
22:07 That expectation.
22:10 Hope then becomes contradistinctive to apathy.
22:15 Anytime you're around somebody who says, "I don't care,"
22:20 I suggest that you get away from them as quickly as you can.
22:25 Because you don't want to be around somebody who has stopped caring.
22:32 If you understand then the psychology that goes with this theology,
22:37 then whenever there is no hope, there is apathy.
22:42 And then wherever there is apathy, then the next step is violence.
22:48 Oh yes, indeed. When people don't care, they're either homicidal or suicidal.
22:55 And one of the problems then with our world is,
22:59 it leads the majority of the people to a place where they feel hopeless.
23:06 And when people feel hopeless, they get violent.
23:12 Stay with me.
23:15 So hope then is contradistinctive to not caring.
23:20 And hope is contradistinctive to backsliding.
23:25 Because whenever I have no expectation,
23:30 I stop operating within the parameters of my ability.
23:35 Because it goes like this, no matter what I do,
23:40 nothing comes to pass.
23:44 And so if nothing has come to pass, why should I keep doing it?
23:48 You see, you can't stop me from hoping.
23:53 I can go into a room and my loved one is awfully sick.
23:58 And it looks, every time I look at the doctor's face, he has a frown.
24:03 And it seems to me that he sees that she or he is not going to make it.
24:12 So you can't stop me from hoping.
24:17 I hope you're with me.
24:20 Because if I don't have any expectation, then I can't have faith.
24:28 Because faith is the substance of things hoped for.
24:37 When I walked into this church today, I didn't walk in with apathy.
24:43 I walked in because I had an expectation that God is going to bless me.
24:52 Can I take it from the theology to the sociology?
24:57 I'm going to take it to relationship.
25:00 You see, oftentimes when you have been hurt,
25:05 you have a penchant to lower your expectation.
25:09 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
25:12 That's why you ought to get over your pain before you try again.
25:21 Because many times you go into a new relationship
25:27 because you figure you need to do it for whatever reason,
25:33 because you haven't gotten over the old relationship.
25:36 So you're going into the new one, and what you do is you lower your expectation.
25:43 Ain't no man good anyway. Ain't no good man no way.
25:47 So I'm going to check him out, but I ain't looking for too much because he ain't on.
25:52 Now, you're on the side of the table with lowered expectation.
26:00 You're on the other side of the table, and what's coming across,
26:03 because I don't know your history, what's coming across to me is suspicion.
26:10 So now I came to the table with everything that I had,
26:15 and I was willing to put it on the table.
26:19 But all of a sudden, I'm feeling some negative vibes of lower expectation,
26:28 and then I say, "Oh, well, I'm getting some suspicious behavior."
26:35 So I say, "Well, maybe I ought to hold on to my stuff until we can check this out."
26:41 Now, what happens is you end up getting exactly what you expected.
26:49 What God is saying is, "Don't approach me like that,
26:54 because I'm not such a one as thyself.
26:58 If you come to me, don't come to me wondering whether or not I will keep what I said,
27:05 because if I said it, get over the pain and come to me expecting me to deliver what I said."
27:17 I feel like having church here.
27:21 [Groans]
27:24 Can I preach like I feel it?
27:27 Now, I'm just going to digress for a minute,
27:30 and let's run to Jesus making a statement that I could not do many mighty works in Nazareth
27:38 because of their unbelief.
27:42 Now, I want you to understand this very carefully.
27:47 It's you not believing God does not limit God from doing what God does.
27:56 Understand that.
27:58 So what does he mean when he said, "I couldn't do many mighty works"?
28:03 You see, mighty works only become mighty when they're received.
28:10 Can I put it another way?
28:12 Paul Tillich puts it like this.
28:16 Paul Tillich says, "Revelation must be given, and revelation must be received, or it's not revelation."
28:24 You see, the problem is in Nazareth, God gave it, but they didn't receive it.
28:32 So it didn't consummate the relationship.
28:38 So you see, God has given, but we have lowered our expectation, and we have resisted what is already ours.
28:49 If you expect it, you'll get it.
28:52 And whatever level you expect is the level you will get because God has already released it.
29:01 Everything you will ever get from God has already been released.
29:07 It's up to you.
29:09 I feel like shouting here.
29:12 Give somebody a high five a second time and say, "I was chosen in him before the foundation of the world.
29:23 I was his before I got here."
29:28 Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
29:30 It ain't up to God.
29:33 It's up to me because I have everything that God has given before I even got here.
29:42 That's why the devil can't stop it because God gave it to me before he created the devil.
29:49 The devil can't stop it.
29:51 That's why the devil doesn't mess with my gift.
29:54 He mess with my character because if he can pollute my character, he can keep me from getting my...
30:02 [applause]
30:07 I feel a breakthrough coming. I feel it coming.
30:09 I'm almost there, Pat.
30:12 And so now, hope keeps you calm and hope stems the violence in us.
30:20 And this is why the times of waiting on God and here's what he does now because in the book of Hebrews,
30:28 he is using admonition, he is using warnings, he is, oh, I mean, he threatens them.
30:35 He said, "Oh, it's terrible to fall in the hand of the mighty God."
30:41 I mean, he just threatens and he encourages and he's gone into his spiritual, psychological book
30:51 and he's trying to get them to understand that you need to stay where you are.
30:59 Hold your place.
31:01 Don't you go back because everything you're going back to is less than what you have right now.
31:09 Can I talk to you for a minute?
31:12 Who is it that you feel like you need to go back to after you have met God?
31:20 When you meet God, everything that kept you down, you ought to get rid of.
31:28 Because God has something better for you.
31:32 Who you going back to?
31:35 I'm going to get bogged down there. I'm going to leave that alone.
31:40 Because God has brought you out of something and you want to go like a dog back to its vomit?
31:49 What? What?
31:52 Never again.
31:54 God has taken you out of a situation.
31:57 Why are you trying to go back into what God took you out of?
32:03 I'll starve first.
32:05 I'll sit over here and wait on God until I starve, but I ain't going back.
32:12 Because he said, "Once you take the plow, don't even look back."
32:18 When God is in your life, you're a movement.
32:21 When you look back, you become a monument.
32:24 I ain't trying to be a monument in a moving world where God is taking me higher.
32:31 Expect it.
32:35 I'm almost there.
32:37 He tells him now, he takes Abraham and he uses Abraham for an example.
32:45 And it's the time now of waiting on God.
32:50 It is now 20 years after the promise.
32:54 And here is Isaac. God calls him. He is 75 when God calls him.
33:01 And of course, his wife is a beautiful 60 year old.
33:06 And I mean, she's fine.
33:09 She's going to be fine at that age until Abraham is worried that everybody is going to grab her and kill him.
33:16 Ain't that something?
33:18 You got to understand that age has no sets on what God is going to do in your life.
33:27 Well, I'm too old. The devil is alive.
33:32 The same God that promised you when you were young can keep you healthy to enjoy it when you're older.
33:40 I'm a witness.
33:47 The promise then was that Abraham was to become the father of many nations.
34:00 And the promise was that the earth through Abraham was to be blessed.
34:07 So then God in his greatness has promised Abraham that the world through him would be blessed.
34:17 Now, when is he making the promise?
34:21 He's making the promise when Abraham is an old man of 75 and his wife 10 years younger, 65.
34:30 It seems now that God would hurry up and bring this thing to pass.
34:37 Why? Because God, do the math, Lord.
34:41 The man is 75. The wife is 65.
34:46 What are you going to do?
34:49 Well, God holds back.
34:51 You see, when God gives you the first promise, things are difficult.
34:57 He promises you in a difficult situation.
35:02 But because we have a proclivity to take our praise to ourselves, he takes the promise from difficult to impossible.
35:15 You see what I'm saying?
35:18 You see, anytime you're dealing with God and the promise he gives you is difficult and then it moves to impossible,
35:28 then the next step can only be miracle.
35:32 You see, he's not going to take it from difficult to miracle.
35:37 He's going to take it from difficult to impossible to miracle.
35:43 When he brings it to pass, there is no debate as to who did the work.
35:50 I feel like preaching here.
35:53 Give somebody a high five third time.
35:56 And say, neighbor, what you're going through is you simply waiting for God to do the work.
36:06 I will not give my glory to another.
36:11 I won't bless you, but I want my glory.
36:14 Jesus declared that Abraham saw my day and rejoiced, which means Abraham had to see Jesus even before he had Isaac.
36:29 Are you with me?
36:31 Because Isaac now represents the fulfillment of the promise.
36:38 That means then that Abraham would not be around physically to see Jesus.
36:44 So we had to see Jesus in spirit through Isaac.
36:49 So once I know that I have Isaac, I know I've got Jesus.
36:56 You see, Jesus is the very core of every blessing.
37:03 Can I take it further?
37:06 Do you think you're blessed if what you have Jesus isn't in it?
37:11 Because if Jesus isn't in it, it ain't a blessing.
37:16 Don't worry about the size of the blessing.
37:20 Because if Jesus is in it, the blessing can't be small.
37:25 Because you can't have the mighty God in anything that he promised.
37:30 And you walk away from this, say, oh, that ain't much.
37:34 No, no, no. Jesus is in it if it's a pinto.
37:38 Jesus is in it if it's a Rolls Royce.
37:41 The issue is not whether it's a Rolls Royce or a pinto.
37:45 The issue is, is Jesus in it?
37:49 I'd rather have Jesus in a pinto than the devil in a Rolls Royce.
37:56 [Applause]
38:01 Ah, ah, something pushing me here.
38:06 And so at best, he could only have, see Jesus in Isaac.
38:12 So the writer now says, he patiently endured until he obtained the promise.
38:21 This is his encouragement.
38:25 But he doesn't stop with encouragement.
38:28 He has to move now from theology and he bridges into man's yes world.
38:37 He says now, he's trying to convince the individual that I'm going to do what I say.
38:45 So I'm going to bridge from the theological presentation that may be stressing your intellectual cognitive energy.
38:55 And I'm going to come down to where you are.
38:59 So what he does now is he illustrates the security of the divine promise by an analogy of human practice.
39:10 He goes into human practice and here's what he says.
39:14 He says, when anybody makes an oath, it stops all the conversation.
39:20 I said to my daughter, I'm going to take you, I'm going to take you to Paris.
39:25 And she says, well, are you really daddy?
39:28 I said, yes.
39:30 And I said, well, daddy, are you really going to do it?
39:32 Yes.
39:34 I said it, didn't I?
39:36 Then two weeks later, daddy, when are we going to do it?
39:40 Are you really going to do it?
39:43 Well, I crossed my heart and I hope to die.
39:46 And then she says, okay, daddy, okay, it's going to be all right.
39:50 What God did was he looked in human practice and he says, anytime you start making oaths, it stops the debate.
40:00 Anytime you say to somebody on my children's grave, they begin to say, well, he must mean it now because he's calling judgment on his children.
40:12 So the confident hope then, which God, he now, he now moves to the place where he is saying, you have not taken my word.
40:24 You have come to church after I have given you a promise and you've sat in the church like a sad sack.
40:31 You come complaining and you come wondering and you come asking everybody to pray.
40:38 You know how we do it.
40:41 We get one prayer partner and if it doesn't come to pass quickly enough, we say, well, she don't have no power.
40:48 So you get another prayer partner and if it doesn't come to pass, you say, well, he don't have no power.
40:56 Some people leave their churches because they say, well, my church ain't got no power.
41:02 My pastor is not close to God.
41:06 But what they don't realize is the one who gives the promise is the one who operates the timetable of the promise.
41:16 Nobody can move God quicker than God wants to move.
41:23 And nobody can stop God from moving when he gets ready to move.
41:31 So all you got to do when you have expectation is wait on him.
41:36 But don't wait on him like you're in a raggedy room.
41:42 You know, can I preach like I feel it?
41:45 You see, there's some kinds of waiting.
41:48 Some of you will sit in a doctor's office with the right kind of blue and he's playing the melodious euphonious music
41:59 that is designed to therapeutically calm your spirit.
42:03 And you're still impatient with all of that.
42:07 God has spoken to you over and over and over again.
42:13 He has shown you testimonies of people who have been blessed.
42:18 And you're still impatient.
42:20 And you come into church and you can't wait.
42:23 And you come in complaining.
42:26 When is he going to do it?
42:28 The people are looking at me like I'm crazy.
42:31 I've told everybody.
42:33 You know that's a problem when you tell somebody you're getting married and the man ain't moving.
42:40 And you're doing everything to prove to everybody.
42:43 So you're showing yourself out.
42:46 You're making it look like you're with him all the time.
42:49 And he ain't moving.
42:51 But if he made the promise, you got to wait on it.
42:55 You can't make him.
42:56 And he is a mere man.
42:58 You can't make God.
43:01 And let me tell you something.
43:03 Sometimes God gets more relationship out of you when you're waiting on him than when you get something.
43:11 I feel it.
43:13 And sometimes he's just sitting there enjoying how you're coming to him early in the morning.
43:21 You never went early in the morning until he made you a promise.
43:26 Now you're coming early in the morning.
43:30 You ain't never been to a prayer meeting until you got a promise.
43:34 Now here you're coming.
43:36 You're the first one there.
43:38 You're the last one.
43:40 You're speaking in other tongues.
43:42 And you're getting real close to him.
43:44 And God knows once you get the gift, it's going to be bye bye, see you later.
43:49 So he's enjoying the moment while he's building your character.
43:55 And I got news for you.
43:57 Sometimes God delivers the gift when you decide you can live without it.
44:03 Go back to Hannah.
44:05 Go back to Hannah.
44:07 When Hannah decided she'd give it to God, that's when God gave it to her.
44:13 I don't want to give you a gift that causes you to walk away from me.
44:18 I want to give you a gift that gets me more praise, gets me more glory,
44:23 gets me more determination, gets me more work and more faithfulness out of you.
44:30 Give somebody a high five third time, fourth time.
44:35 And say, neighbor, he's enjoying you right where you are.
44:40 He's enjoying your praise.
44:42 He's enjoying you seeking him early.
44:46 He's enjoying you getting other people together to call on his name.
44:52 I'm almost there.
44:54 I feel something pushing me now.
44:57 It's critical now because the Bible says we're in God.
45:02 In accordance then with the universal custom, God disregards the insult.
45:08 You insulted me when you wouldn't take my word.
45:14 You insulted me when you wouldn't believe that I do what I said.
45:18 So the Bible says his willingness and it's not from the word fellow,
45:24 which is a desire based on emotion, but it's from the word Balaam,
45:30 which is a desire based on reasoning.
45:34 In other words, God came by the potter's house and he looked at everybody in the house
45:42 not feeling like he was going to deliver.
45:45 And he said, this is not emotional with me.
45:48 I've got to do something for my children.
45:52 I can't allow them just to sit here and act as if I'm not the God that I said I'd be.
45:59 So I'm going to do something that's going to make them understand
46:06 that the C-O-U-N-C-I-L is the immutable God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
46:15 And the C-O-U-N-C-I-L had a meeting about your life.
46:21 And they came up with the C-O-U-N-S-E-L and said, I got to talk to these children.
46:30 I've got to show them that the C-O-U-N-S-E-L is as immutable as the C-O-U-N-C-I-L.
46:41 My promise is just immutable as me being God.
46:47 But I've got to get that child off the bench.
46:51 I've got to bring that child to the place where they understand that I'm not a turncoat.
46:59 If I said it, I'll do it. We might as well have church fat.
47:03 If I said it, I'll bring it to pass.
47:06 Because I am not a turncoat. I promised it in eternity.
47:12 And I really didn't promise it. Can I preach like I feel it?
47:17 I really didn't promise it because I'm omniscient and I am eternal.
47:24 And what does that say? I already know everything.
47:29 But when did I know everything? I always knew everything.
47:34 Because I am eternal. So as eternal as I am is as eternal as my promise is.
47:44 And there is no devil that can stop me from bringing it to pass.
47:52 I just need you to relax. Give somebody a high five for the fifth time.
47:57 And say relax. Just relax. Because it's coming to pass.
48:04 Relax. Because God is getting ready to show his hand.
48:11 His promise then is from the Greek word, a metathaton.
48:18 And that is, it's untransposable. I feel like preaching.
48:23 Can't nobody get what God has promised you.
48:29 Can't nobody get it. If you see him roll by in a Rolls Royce, that ain't yours.
48:36 That's his. Yours is on the way.
48:39 And when you see somebody blessed, you begin to praise God.
48:45 Because you just moved up in the line.
48:48 When somebody's dream has come to pass, you just took another step in the line.
48:58 As long as I'm in the line, I can wait on it.
49:03 I feel like lifting him up.
49:06 Give somebody a high five for the second to the last time.
49:12 Say I'm in the right line. I'm in the praise line.
49:16 I'm in the holiness line. I'm in the love of God line.
49:21 I'm in the fasting line. I'm in the line where God operates.
49:28 Because I feel his presence. Can I preach like a fillet?
49:33 Every now and then, in the middle of your distress,
49:39 he comes in the room and gives you a consolation.
49:43 That everything is going to be alright.
49:47 I think I'll preach the rest of it another time.
49:51 I feel like lifting him up.
49:55 But I just come to tell you, where is your anchor?
50:00 Your anchor is hope. And where is it?
50:06 Inside the holy of holies.
50:10 That's where it's anchored. My hope is anchored in the holy of holies.
50:18 Where Jesus has entered.
50:22 Can no devil get into the holy of holies?
50:28 There is no devil that can loose the promise that God has given me.
50:35 Because my hope is anchored in the holy of holies.
50:42 It's behind the veil.
50:45 Can I get some help? Somebody bring me a mic cord.
50:51 Bring me a cord. I feel like preaching in here.
50:56 When I felt like walking away, my hope, I feel like preaching.
51:02 I'm on the top of the water. I'm in the middle of a storm.
51:07 The winds are blowing. Trials are every side.
51:11 But my hope, hold on to the other end.
51:15 Can I feel like preaching in here? I feel like lifting him up.
51:20 I said, I'm going to walk out the church.
51:25 I was getting ready to walk out, but my anchor held.
51:30 I was going to leave. I'm sick and tired of folk talking about me.
51:36 And saying it will not come to pass. I'm leaving.
51:41 But my anchor held.
51:45 I said I was going to leave the church.
51:49 And I'm going back to the house of God.
51:53 I was walking out.
51:55 And gripped the solid rock.
52:02 I said, I'm going back to the old boyfriend.
52:07 I'm going back to that old woman.
52:10 I'm going back to the drugs and the coke.
52:14 But when I walked out.
52:21 I said, give somebody a high five for the last time.
52:25 I said, neighbor, I can't leave. It's got to come to pass.
52:32 My anchor is I expect it.
52:49 It's got to come to pass.
52:52 He said it. I believe it.
52:55 I still have hope.
53:07 I still believe God.
53:09 I still know he'll bring it to pass.
53:14 Somebody say it's already done.
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