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00:00:00 ♪ To the lighthouse, lighthouse ♪
00:00:02 ♪ You're welcome here ♪
00:00:03 ♪ Let me introduce you to my father ♪
00:00:05 ♪ To the lighthouse, lighthouse ♪
00:00:07 ♪ You'll be expecting me ♪
00:00:08 ♪ I believe that we owe God a praise ♪
00:00:13 - I am so, I don't know if I'm gonna do a good job
00:00:21 preaching this, but this is probably one of the most
00:00:23 important sermons God ever gave me.
00:00:28 And I didn't wanna save it for north,
00:00:32 'cause I believe that God gave me this word for south.
00:00:37 (congregation cheering)
00:00:40 And everybody who's in this room
00:00:44 is supposed to be in this room.
00:00:46 And everybody that's in overflow,
00:00:48 y'all give it up for everybody that's in overflow.
00:00:50 God bless you all, we love you.
00:00:51 (congregation cheering)
00:00:56 Everybody watching online, I need you to stay in tune
00:01:01 with what I'm gonna talk about over the next few moments,
00:01:04 because I am about to tell you
00:01:08 why your season hasn't come yet.
00:01:10 - My gosh.
00:01:10 - You know, all of that praying and journaling
00:01:16 and vision boarding and fasting
00:01:20 that you've been doing.
00:01:24 And you're like, "Well, when is it gonna be my time?"
00:01:28 I'm about to tell you today why it hasn't happened yet.
00:01:37 And after that, I'm gonna tell you how to fast forward it.
00:01:41 'Cause this is the year of manifested promises,
00:01:49 and we are in the month of promotion.
00:01:52 How many of you know that God has a promotion
00:01:54 with your name on it?
00:01:55 All right, tech team, y'all ready?
00:02:00 We got two passages of scripture.
00:02:02 I'm gonna read Galatians 4, 5, 6, and 7.
00:02:08 I'm not preaching from Acts,
00:02:10 but I'm gonna show you a principle in Acts 2,
00:02:14 verse one through four.
00:02:16 So understand that the substratum of my delivery
00:02:19 will be extrapolated from Galatians 4.
00:02:23 But Acts 2 will be a reference.
00:02:25 And if you have a Bible, an actual physical Bible,
00:02:30 there used to be a thing for those of us
00:02:32 who carry a Bible, there was a reference section
00:02:34 that you could go and look at all of the different
00:02:37 scriptures that reference the theological point
00:02:41 that God was pointing out.
00:02:42 Anybody still got physical Bibles?
00:02:43 Maybe not here today, but still, you need to have one.
00:02:47 You need to have one.
00:02:48 I know you might not bring it to church,
00:02:49 you might use your app,
00:02:51 you might study, there is nothing like putting your hands
00:02:54 on real books.
00:02:56 I have audio, I do all of that kind of stuff,
00:02:58 but I got me some real books, y'all.
00:03:00 'Cause sometimes the battery will die.
00:03:02 But you gotta have that word.
00:03:05 You gotta have that word.
00:03:06 I wanna read Galatians 4, verse four.
00:03:10 I really, you know what, this is what I'm gonna do,
00:03:13 tech team, I know I gave y'all seven verses.
00:03:16 I just only wanna read this one,
00:03:18 and then we'll go to Acts.
00:03:20 But when the fullness of the time was come,
00:03:25 God sent forth a son.
00:03:31 I wanna stop right there because he didn't send his son
00:03:35 because the world was in sin.
00:03:37 And he didn't send his son because of what Adam and Eve
00:03:42 did exclusively.
00:03:44 All of that had happened.
00:03:45 It was many years later.
00:03:47 Why didn't he send Jesus the day that Eve bit the fruit?
00:03:51 Why would he wait for Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel
00:03:57 and going on and on and Boaz and going on and on and David,
00:04:01 and we get to Paul and we get to us.
00:04:04 Why did Jesus wait until the days of Herod
00:04:09 to send forth Jesus?
00:04:11 Why didn't he send him earlier?
00:04:13 After all, the world was in sin.
00:04:16 He didn't do it because God doesn't react to crisis.
00:04:21 Listen to me, because some of you all think God is not real
00:04:27 or he is not good or your prayers don't work
00:04:29 because he doesn't respond when you hurt bad.
00:04:32 He let his own son suffer for a whole weekend.
00:04:37 So God doesn't respond to tragedy.
00:04:42 He responds to the fullness of time.
00:04:45 I'm telling you, this is the most important message
00:04:51 I know he's given me this year.
00:04:53 And we will go down in history, remembering this day,
00:04:56 and you will be thanking God because this did not happen
00:04:59 in an arena with 10,000.
00:05:01 This did not happen at a conference.
00:05:03 It happened in a room
00:05:05 that has about 500 people in the main room,
00:05:11 a couple of more people in an overflow room,
00:05:13 and thousands watching online.
00:05:15 And you've got to ask yourself,
00:05:17 God, what have I done that thou art mindful?
00:05:20 Oh, you're not getting this
00:05:26 because some people have been turned away from this building.
00:05:28 Some people couldn't get in.
00:05:30 Some people online, they didn't feel well.
00:05:32 They couldn't get here.
00:05:33 What is it about you that you got that seat?
00:05:38 Listen, that last week somebody else was in.
00:05:40 Must be something special about you.
00:05:44 Just touch your name, it's something about me.
00:05:45 Just, it's something about me.
00:05:48 Something about me.
00:05:49 I don't know yet.
00:05:50 I'm about to find out, but I know it's something.
00:05:53 Acts chapter two.
00:05:58 Do I have your permission to unpack this?
00:06:00 Y'all got anything to do after this?
00:06:02 Where y'all going?
00:06:03 Y'all got to go to Subway, any place,
00:06:06 wherever you want to go.
00:06:08 I don't know.
00:06:09 I got one.
00:06:12 I got one today.
00:06:13 Acts chapter two, verse one.
00:06:15 And when the day of Pentecost,
00:06:17 oh, well, when the fullness of time had come.
00:06:20 Because remember, Pentecost marks the 50th day
00:06:26 after the resurrection of Jesus.
00:06:28 Why didn't Pentecost happen after 20 days?
00:06:31 Why didn't it happen after 40 days?
00:06:34 What was it about the 50th day?
00:06:36 Why did the children of Israel walk in the wilderness
00:06:39 for 40 years?
00:06:39 It was an 11 day journey because they did not get out
00:06:44 until the fullness of time come,
00:06:48 until they learned every lesson they needed to learn,
00:06:50 until they understood who they were, until they,
00:06:52 see, the reason why it ain't your time yet
00:06:54 is because the fullness of what God is doing
00:06:57 hasn't happened yet.
00:06:58 God is not going to give you a full victory
00:07:02 on partial effort.
00:07:03 (congregation cheering)
00:07:07 You know, some of y'all think it's going to happen
00:07:12 'cause you did good before.
00:07:13 God said the fact that you did good before
00:07:19 and you went back to the behavior that you had before
00:07:21 lets me know you are not ready.
00:07:23 The fullness of time.
00:07:27 Here's the word I want to preach today.
00:07:29 Not a moment too soon.
00:07:32 God told me to tell you it's not going to happen
00:07:34 a moment sooner than you are ready for it to happen.
00:07:37 And I know that ain't what you want to hear,
00:07:38 but by the time we finish, you'll be shouting.
00:07:40 But right now, I want you to tell everybody
00:07:42 on your way down to your seat,
00:07:43 it's not going to happen a moment too soon.
00:07:46 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord.
00:07:48 Would you all praise God for this music ministry?
00:07:50 (congregation cheering)
00:07:54 Who's ready to grow in the Lord today?
00:08:02 Did you just see Pastor Rayma perform
00:08:06 the dedication for the baby?
00:08:09 Were you paying attention?
00:08:10 When they told me who the baby was,
00:08:15 and I realized immediately that there was a connection
00:08:19 to the child and Pastor Rayma,
00:08:23 I immediately abstained from doing the duty
00:08:27 because I thought it would be apropos for the relationship.
00:08:31 To continue, and I didn't feel that I needed to step
00:08:35 into a movie that was already in scene.
00:08:38 It wasn't my time.
00:08:41 I'm the pastor.
00:08:44 Literally, when I came in the room,
00:08:47 there are three people on the production team
00:08:48 that came up to me right away and say,
00:08:50 "Would you like to do it?"
00:08:51 I had the authority to do it, I had the ability to do it,
00:08:54 but it wasn't my time.
00:08:55 You have to know what's for you.
00:09:00 (congregation chattering)
00:09:02 And what's for somebody else.
00:09:04 What I did not know is that the lady
00:09:08 who was related to the baby was the person
00:09:11 that introduced Pastor Rayma to the person
00:09:14 that introduced him to me.
00:09:16 But my instinct said, "Step out of the way
00:09:20 "because it is not your time."
00:09:27 He's Nigerian, they are Nigerian.
00:09:30 And let me tell you something,
00:09:31 if you know anything about America and Africa,
00:09:34 although there are some similarities,
00:09:38 there are some stark differences.
00:09:41 In fact, culturally, in this room, we have African-Americans,
00:09:45 I'm looking at Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans.
00:09:49 In this room, there are all kinds of people.
00:09:51 Let me tell you, one of the places
00:09:52 we differ the most is food, the ingredients.
00:09:57 Basically, we all eat chicken,
00:09:58 but we just make it differently.
00:10:00 Everybody eats steak, we just make it differently.
00:10:05 Everybody eats rice.
00:10:06 Can't nobody make rice like Africans,
00:10:08 but we all like rice.
00:10:13 But it's different, we differ in food.
00:10:16 We differ in languages.
00:10:17 Sometimes, Pastor Rayma will go from speaking Igbo
00:10:21 back to English, and he'll be doing all kind of stuff,
00:10:24 and when he's talking stuff I don't understand,
00:10:27 I back out.
00:10:27 And when he comes back to English,
00:10:31 I'll step in and act like I knew
00:10:32 what was happening the whole time.
00:10:34 We all differ.
00:10:38 Listen, matter of fact, let me put it this way.
00:10:40 We different how we parent.
00:10:42 Or in this room, we have some timeout parents.
00:10:47 Raise your hand if you're a timeout parent.
00:10:52 You go to your room, Johnny, you can't say anything,
00:10:54 you eat your Brussels sprouts so you don't come outside.
00:10:57 We got punishment parents.
00:10:59 Raise your hand if you're a punishment parent.
00:11:02 You mess with me, I'll take the PlayStation, the cell phone.
00:11:05 God bless you, we got some knock your lights out parents.
00:11:09 Some of y'all are both.
00:11:14 You start off with the punishment, but you mess with me,
00:11:16 you gonna make me turn into my mama,
00:11:17 and I will knock you out.
00:11:19 By the way, you are supported by the scripture.
00:11:22 The Bible says, "Beat them and they will not die."
00:11:25 Read your Bible.
00:11:27 That's what the Bible says.
00:11:28 Boy, that's gonna be on TikTok in about five minutes,
00:11:34 ain't it?
00:11:35 Are we different parents?
00:11:40 Parenting, some parents yell and scream.
00:11:43 Some sit down and have conversations.
00:11:47 And let me tell you something,
00:11:49 we all differ because of how we were raised.
00:11:54 That's the bottom line.
00:11:56 We're all different.
00:11:58 We're different politically.
00:11:59 We're different politically.
00:12:02 We're different in how we spend and save our money.
00:12:05 We're different in how we dress.
00:12:08 We're different.
00:12:09 You can go right on this same street
00:12:10 and find 50 different styles of worship.
00:12:14 Because it's okay to be different.
00:12:17 The only thing I ask is while I accept you for who you are,
00:12:19 please accept me.
00:12:24 For who I am.
00:12:25 I think the grossest adjustment
00:12:28 is that I have to adjust for you to be happy,
00:12:30 but I'm supposed to be happy
00:12:31 with the deliverance of yourself.
00:12:33 If I have to adjust for you,
00:12:34 you should have to adjust for me.
00:12:36 That is the tolerance that we have
00:12:38 in this thing we call the United States of America.
00:12:41 Everybody differs.
00:12:42 But the one thing you would think
00:12:44 that we all should and could agree on is time.
00:12:49 If church starts at 10,
00:12:53 (audience mumbling)
00:12:55 No, I ain't throwing no shade.
00:12:57 Just stay with me.
00:12:57 (audience laughing)
00:12:59 'Cause to be honest with you,
00:13:00 I'm just glad you're here.
00:13:01 I don't care if you came at 10.10, 10.05, 10.30.
00:13:04 As long as you got in the room,
00:13:05 I am glad you are here.
00:13:07 (audience applauding)
00:13:09 Let me tell you something.
00:13:10 I don't care where you live.
00:13:12 You got seven days in a week.
00:13:15 You got 60 seconds in a minute.
00:13:19 I don't care where you live.
00:13:21 You can't get rich enough to buy 65 seconds in a minute.
00:13:26 You get what I'm saying?
00:13:31 You can't get fine enough to get eight days a week.
00:13:34 You can't talk your way up on 37 days in a month.
00:13:42 I don't care if you go to Angola or you go to Australia.
00:13:46 I don't care if you go to Atlanta.
00:13:48 I don't care if you go to ALEAF.
00:13:50 You're gonna have the same amount of time that I have.
00:13:53 I don't care if you're a millionaire
00:13:56 or you're just barely making it.
00:13:58 When the clock strikes 12, it's 12 for all of us.
00:14:02 Are you listening to me today?
00:14:04 You can't buy more time.
00:14:06 You can't manipulate your way into more time.
00:14:10 Listen, and as powerful as God is
00:14:13 and as good as your relationship is with him,
00:14:15 you will never be able to pray
00:14:18 and get more time than he's already promised you.
00:14:21 You will die at your appointed time,
00:14:27 and I don't care how much kale you eat.
00:14:29 I don't care if you become a vegan.
00:14:31 I don't care if you eat bacon.
00:14:33 You're outta here when you're outta here.
00:14:35 Now, the quality of life
00:14:38 can be improved by the habits you choose,
00:14:44 but to every man, there is a season.
00:14:48 To everything, there is a time under the heavens,
00:14:51 a time to be born and a time to die.
00:14:54 Are you reading me here today?
00:14:57 I want you to hear what I'm saying
00:14:58 because time is one of those things
00:15:00 that I think that we should be able to agree on,
00:15:03 and yet I can assure you that it is one of the places
00:15:08 that we disagree the most.
00:15:10 If I say church starts at 10, for some of y'all,
00:15:13 that means get up at about 7.30, eight o'clock.
00:15:17 That means already having everything ready the day before.
00:15:21 That means making sure that you are in a car
00:15:25 at a certain time so that you can be here at a certain time.
00:15:29 For some of y'all, when I say 10 o'clock, it means,
00:15:32 I'm gonna get up at 10, and see,
00:15:36 when you get up at 10, you're already late.
00:15:38 Some people believe in being fashionably late.
00:15:42 Some people believe, how many of y'all, be honest,
00:15:45 some of you, if you got here and church started at 10,
00:15:48 it doesn't matter what time it starts.
00:15:51 If it ain't a whole lot of people here,
00:15:52 you gonna sit outside until some people come in.
00:15:55 That's what they do at the club,
00:15:58 that's what they do in other places.
00:15:59 You don't wanna be the first.
00:16:00 You know the party started at 11 o'clock,
00:16:02 but you didn't leave home till 11
00:16:04 'cause you don't wanna be there first.
00:16:07 Y'all stay with me,
00:16:09 because we're talking about, somebody say time.
00:16:12 Now, that is true of most of us,
00:16:15 and it doesn't matter where you go,
00:16:17 you get 24 hours a day.
00:16:20 You get seven days in a week.
00:16:24 So when you look at somebody
00:16:26 who is more successful than you,
00:16:28 you have to ask yourself,
00:16:30 what did they do with their time
00:16:33 that you did not do with yours?
00:16:38 When you are praying and asking God
00:16:42 to help you pay a bill,
00:16:44 and somebody else is helping somebody else pay their bills,
00:16:48 you've gotta ask yourself,
00:16:50 what did that person do with their time
00:16:54 that you didn't do with yours?
00:16:56 When you woke up this morning,
00:16:58 what did I do with my time that you didn't do with yours?
00:17:01 When you woke up this morning,
00:17:03 what did you do with your time
00:17:04 that the person behind you did not do with theirs?
00:17:07 Because all of us have the same amount of time in a day.
00:17:12 Oprah Winfrey and the person under the bridge
00:17:14 has the same amount of time in a day.
00:17:17 So the question is not, I didn't have time to do it.
00:17:20 The question is, what did you do?
00:17:22 Come on, y'all.
00:17:24 With the time that you had.
00:17:29 If you graduated high school,
00:17:31 we were all in there for 12 years.
00:17:32 What did you do with your 12 years
00:17:34 that somebody else didn't do with theirs?
00:17:40 And college was available to you if you went
00:17:43 and you didn't go.
00:17:44 And some people are doing better
00:17:45 than people who went to college.
00:17:46 And I'm not saying either way.
00:17:48 I'm just trying to get you to understand
00:17:50 and think about time management.
00:17:52 What are you doing with your time?
00:17:55 And meanwhile, while I am doing all of this talk about time,
00:17:59 you leave America and time doesn't mean the same thing.
00:18:04 Okay?
00:18:06 Now, I said today we started at 10.
00:18:08 What time did we start?
00:18:10 10.
00:18:11 Now, I preach in Africa three times a year.
00:18:13 We ain't never started.
00:18:15 At the time they said we were supposed to start.
00:18:19 They told me church starts at seven.
00:18:21 Me and my wife are in the lobby at 740
00:18:24 waiting on them to show up.
00:18:25 And here I am frustrated like,
00:18:28 what's wrong with people who don't value time?
00:18:33 And it brings out American colloquialisms
00:18:37 'cause we say stuff like, don't waste my time.
00:18:42 We say stuff like time is money.
00:18:44 Are you with me so far?
00:18:46 Don't waste my time.
00:18:47 Time is money.
00:18:48 Because look at how we look at time.
00:18:50 And when I get to dig deep down in it,
00:18:54 look at our history.
00:18:55 We even have in our language specialized phrases
00:19:00 to help us to be able to differentiate between time,
00:19:03 past, present, and future.
00:19:05 I was preaching.
00:19:07 I am preaching.
00:19:09 I will preach.
00:19:10 Because even in our language,
00:19:12 we are able to differentiate between time.
00:19:15 But when I was in seminary,
00:19:17 my Greek professor H. Wayne House taught us
00:19:20 that in the Greek language,
00:19:21 they have something called the aorist tense.
00:19:24 And the aorist tense is when a verb is in the past.
00:19:27 I thought I had Greek only to get there the next week
00:19:30 for him to teach us that there is past aorist
00:19:33 and future aorist.
00:19:34 So that means in Greek,
00:19:36 the past can be in the future.
00:19:38 So y'all gonna go to sleep
00:19:41 and you're gonna be sleeping when the message come.
00:19:43 And when it drop, you're gonna be asleep.
00:19:44 That's why only 1% of y'all gonna get it.
00:19:46 In Greek, the past can be in the future and in the present.
00:19:51 Because they don't differentiate time
00:19:55 like we differentiate time.
00:19:57 In the English language,
00:19:58 we can fluctuate between time without effort.
00:20:01 I'm speaking.
00:20:02 I spoke.
00:20:03 I will speak.
00:20:05 On the contrary, watch this.
00:20:06 In Indonesia, they have no verb tense.
00:20:11 God help me in this place today.
00:20:14 So watch this.
00:20:15 In Indonesia, there is a term called sayang.
00:20:19 Everybody say sayang.
00:20:21 S-I-A-N-G, sayang.
00:20:23 What does sayang mean?
00:20:24 Sayang means when the sun begins to get hot.
00:20:31 So if you ask a person in Indonesia,
00:20:35 when does church start?
00:20:36 They don't say 10 o'clock.
00:20:37 They say church starts when it gets hot.
00:20:41 Lord, I'm telling you, listen,
00:20:44 Kayla, 50% of them gonna miss it.
00:20:46 But the 50% of y'all who got enough attention
00:20:49 to stay focused longer than three minutes,
00:20:51 your life is about to change.
00:20:52 Church starts when it gets hot.
00:20:56 When is church over?
00:20:57 Sore.
00:20:58 Church is over when everybody gets what they need.
00:21:01 Okay?
00:21:05 So what I learned when I went to Africa,
00:21:07 they are not not starting church at seven o'clock
00:21:12 because the host is not worried about time.
00:21:15 He understands that everybody doesn't have a vehicle
00:21:18 like you have, and the road to get to the church
00:21:21 is only two lanes, so everybody has to come in
00:21:24 on the same artery.
00:21:25 So the reason why they delay church
00:21:27 is not because they are not time conscious.
00:21:30 They understand church doesn't start until it's hot.
00:21:34 And the reason why you can go to Africa
00:21:38 and church can last four, five, six, seven hours
00:21:41 is because they understand that church
00:21:43 should not be over until everybody gets.
00:21:45 And the reason why we got rich Americans
00:21:50 who are still depressed and still rejected and insecure
00:21:54 is because we got God on a watch.
00:21:57 And if he don't act in the next 60 minutes,
00:22:00 we gonna get on Instagram and go to sleep.
00:22:02 But for those of y'all who gonna wait
00:22:04 on the fullness of time.
00:22:05 Touch your neighbor and say, "I'm gonna wait on God.
00:22:10 "I'm gonna wait on God.
00:22:10 "I'm gonna wait on God."
00:22:12 Indonesians say church starts, listen,
00:22:15 we not starting church until everybody
00:22:18 who needs to be in the room is in the room.
00:22:20 And we're not ending church
00:22:22 until everybody gets a breakthrough.
00:22:25 The problem with Americans is because we are
00:22:27 so time conscious and so arrogant,
00:22:30 we think that God does thing on a clock
00:22:33 like we expect things to be done on a clock.
00:22:35 But God says, "I don't know where you got that from
00:22:38 "because to me a day is a thousand years
00:22:40 "and a thousand years is but a day.
00:22:42 "I don't keep time like you keep time.
00:22:44 "Time is too small for me.
00:22:46 "I don't do anything in time, but I do things on time
00:22:50 "because I am not able to fit in time.
00:22:52 "I can ride in your life on time."
00:22:56 So what I'm trying to tell you today
00:22:58 is that sometimes you gotta wait on the Lord
00:23:00 because God is not going to give you a boot
00:23:03 just because you turn 30.
00:23:04 And just because you gonna have a high-risk pregnancy
00:23:07 after 35, you asking God to do it right now.
00:23:10 God says, "I'm not doing it right now
00:23:12 "because your life ain't in order
00:23:14 "for me to give you what you want.
00:23:16 "I'm not giving you what you want in time,
00:23:19 "but I will give it to you in the fullness."
00:23:22 (congregation cheering)
00:23:25 So God says, "I'm gonna start
00:23:30 "when everybody in your life needs to be there."
00:23:33 Oh God, help me, mighty Jesus.
00:23:37 And I'm gonna start when you get the folks
00:23:40 out of your church that ain't supposed to be in your church
00:23:43 and get the people in your life,
00:23:45 that's a metaphor, that are supposed to be there.
00:23:48 I'm gonna give it to you when the fullness of time comes.
00:23:51 I'm gonna give it to you when your jealous friends
00:23:53 ain't gonna hate on you and try to tear it down.
00:23:55 I'm gonna give it to you when you get
00:23:57 that no good person you dating out of your life
00:23:59 you know that I told you to get rid of a long time ago.
00:24:01 And so since you wanna stay in your circumstance,
00:24:04 you gonna stay out of my blessing.
00:24:06 (congregation cheering)
00:24:10 Oh, look at your neighbor and say, "You might as well cry
00:24:13 "'cause he gonna smack you right upside your head."
00:24:15 Because some of y'all trying to negotiate with God.
00:24:17 Well, God, just let me just keep him for another six months
00:24:20 to see how it's gonna work out.
00:24:21 God, let me just stay here for another five months
00:24:24 to see how it's gonna work out.
00:24:25 God says, "I ain't giving you nothing
00:24:26 "because if I give you what you're asking for,
00:24:28 "you gonna share it with somebody I don't want to have it."
00:24:31 (congregation cheering)
00:24:34 Slap five, people say, "He talking to you."
00:24:36 And I ain't scared of none of you.
00:24:38 I came to break curses.
00:24:40 I came to slay demons and devils.
00:24:42 I came that you may have life and have it more abundantly.
00:24:45 And it ain't gonna happen a moment too soon.
00:24:48 (congregation cheering)
00:24:51 And guess what?
00:24:54 Guess what?
00:24:55 Anybody who's been a part of this church a long time
00:24:57 will tell you, "I don't shut up 'cause you don't say amen."
00:25:01 You can unfold your arms
00:25:05 and take that scour off of your face
00:25:07 'cause I came to fight the devil today
00:25:09 because we have been in church and in God too long
00:25:13 to still be begging for a cell phone bill.
00:25:18 You have been saved too long to still be crying
00:25:20 about not being able to fill up your gas tank.
00:25:23 God said, "I have come that you may have life
00:25:25 "and have it more abundantly."
00:25:26 You've got to ask yourself,
00:25:27 "What is it about my life
00:25:30 "that keeps me from having abundance?"
00:25:32 (congregation cheering)
00:25:34 You think God picked you to just be broke forever?
00:25:38 What purpose does it serve?
00:25:45 Why would he pick you above everybody else
00:25:49 to suffer for no reason at all?
00:25:51 It ain't like you got a television program.
00:25:53 It ain't like if you struggle,
00:25:55 millions of people are gonna be changed.
00:25:57 Don't nobody know you but the folk who know you.
00:26:00 So why?
00:26:03 Why are you robbing Peter to pay Paul?
00:26:12 Why are you depressed five days out of every week?
00:26:16 Why can't you ever get the breakthrough
00:26:22 that everybody else experiences?
00:26:25 What is it about what you're doing with your time
00:26:30 that keeps it from being your time?
00:26:34 Lord, help me in this place today.
00:26:39 (congregation cheering)
00:26:43 In Africa, in Indonesia, watch this,
00:26:47 they understand that effectiveness
00:26:50 is more important than schedule.
00:26:52 Literally.
00:26:56 Church can start at six,
00:27:00 and I've been in there at one o'clock,
00:27:03 and people are still praising God,
00:27:05 and they walked to church.
00:27:10 You spoiled Americans.
00:27:12 You drove here in air-conditioned cars
00:27:16 and still walked in with an attitude.
00:27:18 Oh, come on, help me, somebody.
00:27:22 We got air-conditioned in this building.
00:27:23 It ain't as cold as it need to be,
00:27:25 but go to church in Africa.
00:27:27 It ain't hot as it could be,
00:27:28 and let me tell you right now,
00:27:29 it's hotter in Houston than it is in Africa.
00:27:32 It's 172 degrees outside right now.
00:27:37 It was 101 this morning.
00:27:38 (congregation laughing)
00:27:42 You ate breakfast, or you could have.
00:27:44 You rode here.
00:27:47 You have a seat.
00:27:48 You have lights.
00:27:49 You have electricity.
00:27:51 You have air conditioning.
00:27:52 In churches that I preach at in Africa,
00:27:55 you can only flush the toilet on certain days.
00:27:58 They have the tub full of water
00:28:03 so that in order to flush the toilet,
00:28:04 you have to get a bucket out of the tub
00:28:06 'cause they filled it up on the days
00:28:07 they could have water,
00:28:09 and to flush the toilet, you take the bucket
00:28:11 and you pour it down the toilet to flush the toilet,
00:28:14 and yet they are praising God
00:28:17 with an extreme amount of joy,
00:28:20 and yet...
00:28:21 (congregation applauding)
00:28:26 I'm looking at some of y'all
00:28:28 with your Zara and your Fashion Nova on
00:28:30 looking at me like God ain't been good.
00:28:34 That's why it ain't your time yet
00:28:36 because you don't understand that God
00:28:37 don't show up until it gets hot.
00:28:40 I need every cold person in the room to get out
00:28:43 'cause all of us hot folks are about to get it on in here.
00:28:46 I want you to make sure you look down your row
00:28:48 and tell everybody he ain't coming until it gets hot.
00:28:51 He's not coming until everybody on our row
00:28:53 is on one accord.
00:28:55 He's not coming until everybody in the room...
00:28:57 (congregation applauding)
00:29:01 Watch this.
00:29:03 The benefit of starting a service
00:29:05 when everybody arrives is you know for sure
00:29:07 that everybody who's there means to be there.
00:29:10 Because if Americans, if we come to church at 10 o'clock
00:29:15 and at 10.45 it hasn't started yet, we going home.
00:29:19 So maybe sometime we might need to do that
00:29:22 to separate the wheat.
00:29:23 (congregation applauding)
00:29:27 One day I might start church late
00:29:28 just to see who will sit and wait on the Lord
00:29:30 because they that wait on the Lord
00:29:33 shall renew their strength.
00:29:34 They will mount up with wings like eagles.
00:29:36 They will walk and not be weary.
00:29:37 They will run and not faint.
00:29:39 Can I just get about 16 people in here right now
00:29:42 to make this room hot so the Holy Spirit
00:29:45 can show up and do what he's supposed to do.
00:29:47 (congregation applauding)
00:29:51 Tell somebody, say, I'm waiting on God.
00:29:59 Like I told you, in Indonesia they wait,
00:30:01 watch this, they're waiting on everybody
00:30:02 who's supposed to be in the room to be in the room
00:30:04 before they can start church.
00:30:05 And let me tell you right now,
00:30:07 some of y'all got to get some people out of your life
00:30:09 because everybody who's supposed to be in your life
00:30:11 is not in your life.
00:30:12 And so God says, I'm going to delay.
00:30:14 I'm going to delay because if I show up too soon,
00:30:17 you're going to have some haters
00:30:18 who are going to talk you out of what I'm doing for you.
00:30:20 They're going to change your mood.
00:30:21 You're going to get an attitude.
00:30:23 So I need you to get your life in order
00:30:25 because I'm not going to do it a moment too soon.
00:30:27 Somebody shout, get your life in order.
00:30:32 He didn't do it in the last season of your life
00:30:33 because you had too many haters in it.
00:30:35 He didn't do it in the last season of your life
00:30:39 because you had too many fake friends in it.
00:30:41 He didn't do it in the last season of your life
00:30:44 because you were in a relationship
00:30:45 that was never going anywhere.
00:30:47 He didn't do it in the last season of your life
00:30:49 because you had a negative mindset
00:30:50 and if he would have gave you some positive,
00:30:52 you would have still complained anyway.
00:30:54 God says, I'm going to do it in the fullness of time.
00:30:56 So when you get your attitude together
00:30:57 and your relationships together
00:30:59 and you get your friendships together
00:31:00 and you get your money together
00:31:02 and you get your worship life together
00:31:03 and you get your tithe life together
00:31:05 and you get all, then, then, then I'll show up.
00:31:08 And that's why you see some of us with it
00:31:15 and some of us without it
00:31:18 because some of us have acquiesced our life
00:31:22 for a miracle to reside.
00:31:24 God says, I will not put new wine
00:31:29 (congregation cheering)
00:31:30 in old wine skins.
00:31:32 How many of y'all ever heard that scripture?
00:31:34 He doesn't put new wine in old wine skin.
00:31:36 Who needs me to explain what that means?
00:31:38 He won't put new wine in old wine skins.
00:31:40 All right.
00:31:41 So in the days of Jesus, they did not have bottles like us.
00:31:46 They made their contraptions to hold their liquids
00:31:50 out of animal skin.
00:31:52 Are you listening to me?
00:31:57 Animal skin, just like the leather you wear,
00:32:01 is only good when it has elasticity.
00:32:04 That's why it has to be kept in a certain area.
00:32:10 If you leave leather outside in the sun, it will dry out
00:32:15 and what will happen when you put stress on it?
00:32:18 It'll tear easily.
00:32:20 So the reason why God says, I don't put new wine
00:32:23 in old wine skins is because wine, watch this,
00:32:26 and that's why it has a cork.
00:32:27 If you ever notice when you pop the top on something
00:32:30 that has bubbles in it, it makes that noise.
00:32:32 Why?
00:32:33 'Cause it's under pressure.
00:32:34 It's under pressure.
00:32:35 So God says, so what I'm putting in you is so high octane,
00:32:39 it's under pressure, but if I put it in something,
00:32:43 because the wine is gonna expand,
00:32:47 so if the skin can't handle the wine,
00:32:50 then the wine will rip and the wine, excuse me,
00:32:53 the skin will rip and the wine will spill on the ground.
00:32:56 So he says, I won't put my wine in something that'll rip.
00:33:01 I can't put new wine in old wine skins.
00:33:04 Maybe you don't drink wine, maybe you drink Pepsi.
00:33:06 You know how it get flat?
00:33:07 You can put flat Pepsi in an old wine skin.
00:33:13 You can't put new Pepsi in an old wine skin
00:33:17 because it'll start to expand.
00:33:20 God says, if you don't have expansive qualities,
00:33:24 if you're not renewing your mind, help me, Holy Spirit,
00:33:27 if you're not renewing your heart,
00:33:29 then I can't pour myself in you
00:33:31 because if you're old and rigid,
00:33:33 you're gonna rip and spill me on the ground.
00:33:35 And if I wanted my glory on the ground,
00:33:40 I would've put it there, but I'm trying to put it in you.
00:33:44 And so in order for me to put myself in you,
00:33:45 you're gonna have to constantly renew yourself
00:33:48 so that you can contain me.
00:33:50 Anybody who doesn't renew their mind cannot contain God.
00:33:55 (congregation cheering)
00:33:58 Are you listening to me?
00:34:01 And so God says, I'm waiting on the fullness of time.
00:34:04 I'm waiting on you to get the right heart,
00:34:08 the right perspective,
00:34:11 the right outlook,
00:34:15 because if I give it to you
00:34:18 and you feel like I gave you the victory,
00:34:19 will you boast in the face of the person you defeated?
00:34:22 If I give you a victory with a defective method,
00:34:30 then you will think that I blessed that kind of behavior.
00:34:35 So I'm waiting on your heart, your mind, your soul,
00:34:40 your money, your friendships,
00:34:42 I'm waiting on you to get all of that together.
00:34:44 Somebody say the fullness of time.
00:34:46 Say it again, the fullness of time.
00:34:48 - The fullness of time.
00:34:49 - Listen, and I still have to explain to you
00:34:53 one key element to this before I'm done,
00:34:55 but I want you to think about when Jesus was born.
00:34:58 This is how you'll know what kind of mindset you have.
00:35:00 There was an evil king named Herod.
00:35:02 And when Jesus was born, King Herod told the Magi,
00:35:07 he said, I need you all to tell me
00:35:09 the exact moment you saw the star.
00:35:14 Because a carnal mindset is always worried about time.
00:35:19 When is it gonna be over?
00:35:20 When is it gonna start?
00:35:23 Y'all ain't listening to me.
00:35:25 Some of y'all here right now like,
00:35:26 whoo, what time church gonna be over?
00:35:27 Carnal.
00:35:28 Listen, anybody in the spirit right now,
00:35:32 you're not even time conscious.
00:35:35 And listen, if you are spiritual,
00:35:37 why would you plan anything for right after church?
00:35:42 As if you know when church is gonna be over, carnal.
00:35:45 You haven't even left God enough time to do a miracle
00:35:50 'cause you got reservations at 1:15.
00:35:52 So if he did show up, he gotta be done by one
00:35:56 'cause it's 15 minutes from here.
00:35:58 I gotta add a two-faced too.
00:36:07 (congregation laughing)
00:36:10 Oh God, help me.
00:36:15 Y'all got me online 'cause they ain't helping me in here.
00:36:16 They don't like it.
00:36:17 Time.
00:36:22 I don't like going to church in the middle of the week.
00:36:26 Well, what if that's when God wants to deliver?
00:36:28 (congregation cheering)
00:36:31 I don't church two hours, that's enough for me.
00:36:35 Okay, but what if God wanted to deliver at the third hour?
00:36:38 Okay.
00:36:44 And here's why we suffer.
00:36:46 Because in America or in the Western hemisphere,
00:36:49 when we say time, we think chronos.
00:36:53 Chronology, clock.
00:36:56 God, I wanna be married by 25.
00:37:01 I wanna have a baby by 28.
00:37:02 I wanna have a house by, look at, look at.
00:37:04 How many, come on now.
00:37:05 I wanna be in my career by da da da.
00:37:10 We always got God on a time that suits our comfort.
00:37:15 God says, I don't care nothing about your age.
00:37:22 I'm not looking at your age.
00:37:26 I'm looking at your stage.
00:37:29 What stage of life are you in?
00:37:34 Are you still mean?
00:37:36 Do you still like to get even?
00:37:40 Do you still hold grudges for years?
00:37:46 'Cause if you're still doing that, baby,
00:37:47 the fullness of time hasn't come.
00:37:49 'Cause obviously all of those tragedies you've been through
00:37:52 hadn't taught you the lesson I wanted you to learn.
00:37:54 Every pain you have been through
00:37:59 was designed to teach you how to handle
00:38:01 what you're going through.
00:38:02 If you don't learn the lesson of that grade level,
00:38:05 you have to repeat the class.
00:38:07 (congregation cheering)
00:38:10 Raise your hand if you've ever flunked.
00:38:13 You are literally asking God for a high school diploma
00:38:22 on a sixth grade tolerance level.
00:38:29 Why would I give a miracle to somebody that mentally,
00:38:33 emotionally, and spiritually immature?
00:38:35 You think I'm gonna let you embarrass me?
00:38:40 It ain't coming, listen to me, until when?
00:38:47 The fullness, say it again, the what?
00:38:51 Chronos.
00:38:58 Chronos.
00:39:00 This is our problem, 'cause we do everything by time.
00:39:04 If it don't happen by the 30th, then it ain't God.
00:39:09 God, if it's you, show me by Wednesday.
00:39:15 'Cause on Thursday, I'm gonna do it my way.
00:39:19 Come on, talk to your boy, holler at your boy.
00:39:21 How many of y'all put God on the clock?
00:39:23 Come on.
00:39:23 I'm assuming the rest of y'all arms are sore
00:39:28 from the workout you had yesterday.
00:39:29 I said raise your hand if you put God on the clock.
00:39:33 Look around, don't put 'em down, look around.
00:39:35 Every one of us.
00:39:39 Every one of us, God I want it by,
00:39:43 and then we guilt him, we guilt trip God.
00:39:47 I've been dealing with this for,
00:39:49 God wanna say, I've been dealing with you
00:39:56 for longer than you've been dealing with it.
00:39:59 Chronos.
00:40:04 And at a glance out of the arrogance we have,
00:40:07 we think God does things the way,
00:40:11 but his ways are not our ways.
00:40:14 His thoughts are not our thoughts.
00:40:17 God wasn't born in America.
00:40:20 He doesn't have a Houstonian point of view.
00:40:24 (audience murmurs)
00:40:27 Are you listening to me?
00:40:28 He doesn't think like us.
00:40:31 So this frame of mind influences how we see God
00:40:35 and how we are patient through our trials and tribulations.
00:40:39 And so we do things chronologically.
00:40:43 God says, if you read the scripture,
00:40:47 I use the word kairos twice as much in the scripture
00:40:52 as I do chronos.
00:40:53 Chronos is calendar, a clock.
00:40:58 Kairos is not about time, it's about season.
00:41:07 Lord help me.
00:41:11 So when the Bible says to everything under the heavens,
00:41:15 there is a time, not a five o'clock, but a season.
00:41:21 God help me in this place.
00:41:24 Paul said in Galatians four, he says,
00:41:25 when the fullness of time has come,
00:41:28 God sent forth a son born of a woman under the law.
00:41:31 God wasn't waiting on the calendar to send Jesus.
00:41:35 God was waiting on a period in history
00:41:40 in which the conditions were correct for Christ.
00:41:45 God help me.
00:41:47 I know it is.
00:41:50 It's something I already know everybody ain't gonna get it.
00:41:52 Listen, God isn't looking at a clock to bless you.
00:41:57 He's not looking at your age.
00:42:04 You're the only one talking about you're too old.
00:42:07 You're the only one talking about you're too young.
00:42:12 God says, I'm not looking at your age.
00:42:15 I'm looking at your stage.
00:42:18 He says, and when you are ready,
00:42:22 I don't care if you're 14 or 40,
00:42:24 when you are ready, I will send you
00:42:27 what you're ready to have.
00:42:31 He's waiting on the right conditions
00:42:35 until you have the right people in your life,
00:42:37 until you have the right mindset,
00:42:39 until you have the right skillset,
00:42:41 and the blessing isn't coming a moment too soon.
00:42:44 It is not coming under the current mindset.
00:42:47 God is waiting on the Kairos to take place in your life.
00:42:51 In fact, I just thought about this.
00:42:52 This is Steve Taylor right here.
00:42:53 Steve started a security company,
00:42:55 and the name of the security company is Kairos Security.
00:42:58 Now what you understand about that is when I met Steve,
00:43:04 Steve was in a trailer printing T-shirts.
00:43:07 Now he has a multimillion dollar security company
00:43:13 called Kairos.
00:43:14 (audience applauding)
00:43:17 When I met him, he was getting paid chronologically.
00:43:23 Now he's getting paid in Kairos.
00:43:27 Y'all not listening to me in here.
00:43:29 I'm about to help you.
00:43:32 How many of y'all still got a moment?
00:43:34 I'm about to show you something
00:43:35 that's gonna blow your mind.
00:43:36 But I need you to shout it, shout Kairos.
00:43:40 In both Jewish and in Greek cultures,
00:43:44 there was something called a coming of age ceremony, okay,
00:43:48 where the boy stopped being a child,
00:43:51 and he started to become a man.
00:43:54 But in the Roman custom, there was no specific age
00:43:57 when a son became a man.
00:43:59 Listen to me.
00:44:00 A son became a man in biblical times
00:44:03 when his father said he was one.
00:44:06 I don't know if they heard me.
00:44:12 I'm from Rome, I don't know if they heard me.
00:44:14 In America, your boy is a man at 18.
00:44:19 In America, your boy is grown at 21.
00:44:24 In the culture Paul was in,
00:44:26 the father could decide that the boy was a man
00:44:30 when he displayed the characteristics.
00:44:33 So he might have one son that was 12 and was already a man
00:44:39 and have another son that was 18 that wasn't a man yet
00:44:42 because the child did not become a man
00:44:45 until the father said.
00:44:46 What if I told you that the only reason why
00:44:53 God hasn't given you the benefits of your adulthood yet
00:44:56 is he's looking at you and saying,
00:44:58 "You are still not ready.
00:45:05 You're not going to get it until the father says so."
00:45:09 Ooh, Jesus, I'm preaching.
00:45:12 Preach, Kion.
00:45:14 Today, I ain't gonna say nothing.
00:45:15 I think I will.
00:45:16 You're not getting it until the father says so.
00:45:21 Not when you get a mustache.
00:45:23 Not because you got money in your pocket.
00:45:29 Not even because you got a career.
00:45:32 Not because you got a lot of followers on social media.
00:45:36 Not because you're the manager at the job
00:45:38 'cause you can still be in charge and be immature.
00:45:41 Paul says, "You will not get it
00:45:48 until the father appoints the time
00:45:52 and you have to show him that you're ready."
00:45:54 Watch what they used to do in the days of the Romans.
00:45:58 A child, whatever they had as a child, as a toy,
00:46:01 they had to give it to the god Apollo
00:46:04 as a way of a rite of passage to say, "I'm grown now."
00:46:07 So if a girl had a doll, she had to give it to Apollo.
00:46:09 If a boy had a toy, he had to give it to Apollo
00:46:12 to say that, "No wonder Paul said, 'When I was a child,
00:46:16 I thought like a child, I understood like a child,
00:46:21 I spoke as a child,
00:46:22 but when I put away childish thinking and speaking,
00:46:26 when I was a child, I speak as a child,
00:46:31 I understood as a child, I thought as a child,
00:46:32 but when I put away childish things."
00:46:35 So God says, "Listen,
00:46:40 you're still too petty to be picked."
00:46:45 Slap your neighbor, mighty God, mighty God.
00:46:59 God said, "You ain't gave me your doll yet.
00:47:01 You haven't given me your baseball yet."
00:47:06 Whatever that thing is, that childish thing in you,
00:47:09 you ain't gave me that childish thing yet,
00:47:12 so you're not ready to be a man,
00:47:14 you're not ready to be a woman
00:47:15 because you haven't put away childish thinking
00:47:18 and speaking and seeing.
00:47:19 You still see like a child, you still think like a child,
00:47:22 and when you angry, you still speak like a child,
00:47:24 and so you are not a man or a woman yet,
00:47:26 and I cannot give you the blessings of an adult."
00:47:29 So that's why all of your blessings are small,
00:47:32 'cause they are the same size as you.
00:47:34 Just in case you thought I was scared,
00:47:42 I said, "Your blessings are the same size as you."
00:47:47 Now, if you understand the word of God
00:47:57 and you understand the authority of a prophet
00:47:59 and a priest and a preacher,
00:48:00 you understand that those whom he love, he also chastises,
00:48:03 and you have to understand that I am challenging you
00:48:05 to get out of your way.
00:48:07 I'm challenging you to get out of your way.
00:48:13 Why are you waiting so long to be you?
00:48:17 You should have been rich a long time ago.
00:48:24 You should have been married a long time ago.
00:48:27 You should have been debt-free a long time ago.
00:48:29 Your depression should have been gone a long time ago.
00:48:32 Your anxiety should have been gone a long time ago,
00:48:35 but you still see, think, and speak childish.
00:48:37 Man, when I read comments on social media,
00:48:45 we're just a world full of children.
00:48:47 I can't believe that we're making light
00:48:52 and making fun and memes about a submarine
00:48:56 imploding with five human beings.
00:48:59 Are we silly?
00:49:00 That's somebody's daddy and son, and we're joking?
00:49:06 But when it is our family,
00:49:07 we come into the altar asking for a miracle.
00:49:09 And your family may not be dying in a submarine,
00:49:14 but they could be dying for substandards
00:49:19 called poverty and jealousy and envy and anger and hatred.
00:49:24 It is amazing what we are.
00:49:32 We have no sympathy or empathy for anybody,
00:49:38 but when we going through,
00:49:39 we want the whole world to be at attention.
00:49:42 Why are we laughing at this?
00:49:45 They shouldn't have went down there.
00:49:48 Well, you went a whole lot of places you shouldn't have went
00:49:50 and you came back alive.
00:49:52 Come on.
00:49:53 You've been in your own submarines.
00:49:56 You've been in some beds you shouldn't have been in.
00:49:59 For some people, you just met that day.
00:50:01 Come on, come on, come on.
00:50:17 And yet you came out alive.
00:50:18 Why?
00:50:19 'Cause it wasn't your time.
00:50:20 We gotta grow up.
00:50:37 It ain't cute no more, church.
00:50:42 This is serious business.
00:50:47 (congregation laughing)
00:50:49 Don't you get wrapped up in the trick of the enemy.
00:50:51 I saw a man, he drew a diagram on Instagram yesterday.
00:50:58 He drew a circle right here
00:51:00 and then he drew another circle right here.
00:51:04 And he put an X and he says, this is my business.
00:51:07 And this is your business.
00:51:11 Then he put another X and said,
00:51:12 you have no business being in my business.
00:51:14 So I'm gonna need you to go over here
00:51:16 and get in your business.
00:51:18 And then he drew another circle and said,
00:51:19 this is called a child's place.
00:51:21 And if you are a child,
00:51:23 I need you to get out of my business
00:51:24 and get in a child's place.
00:51:26 And if you are not handling your business,
00:51:27 then you are in a child's place.
00:51:30 You need to mind the business that pay you.
00:51:37 Some of y'all know something about everybody's life.
00:51:43 You know who dating who, you know who with who,
00:51:45 you online searching and you don't know nothing
00:51:47 about your destiny.
00:51:48 Get out of other folks' business
00:51:50 and find out what God is doing with you
00:51:52 so the fullness of time can come
00:51:53 and you can get your family out of poverty
00:51:55 and you can get your daughter an education
00:51:58 and you can get your son a scholarship.
00:51:59 Come on, talk to me, somebody.
00:52:01 It's time.
00:52:02 When the fullness of time has come.
00:52:09 I thought as a child, I spoke as a child,
00:52:15 I understood as a child.
00:52:16 And so as a result of being a child,
00:52:18 I can't get the blessing
00:52:20 because you do not give the miracle
00:52:24 to a person who's not at the certain stage.
00:52:27 Watch this.
00:52:28 And in those days,
00:52:30 watch this, hear me.
00:52:32 If a father had a son,
00:52:35 anybody still learning anything?
00:52:37 When a father had a son,
00:52:40 he was the heir to the father's inheritance.
00:52:44 And yet, before the father made him a man,
00:52:48 he had less authority in the house
00:52:50 than the father's slaves.
00:52:52 Did you hear what I just said?
00:52:59 What I had just said was,
00:53:00 he was the father's son,
00:53:06 but he had less freedom than the father's slave.
00:53:10 Because until you become a man or a woman,
00:53:13 you are beneath the slave in the father's house.
00:53:15 So sometimes you look at folks
00:53:20 and you think they doing better than me.
00:53:22 All they are is slaves.
00:53:25 Doing a little better than you
00:53:27 until you grow up and get your inheritance.
00:53:30 And why are you letting slaves live better than you?
00:53:41 You got people in the world who don't believe in God
00:53:44 living better than you.
00:53:45 They are slaves in the house of God.
00:53:48 The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous.
00:53:50 If you hurry up and grow up,
00:53:52 the shift can take place.
00:53:53 He literally let the Canaanites,
00:53:58 the Jebusites, and the Amorites hold Canaan
00:54:02 until Israel got mature enough to walk in it.
00:54:05 Which means literally you have slaves in your house
00:54:10 'cause you won't grow up.
00:54:11 Right now in River Oaks,
00:54:16 somebody living in your house
00:54:17 'cause you still want to be petty.
00:54:19 Right now there's somebody living on your 55 acres
00:54:26 with that mansion,
00:54:27 all because you won't just settle down
00:54:28 and stop being picky and petty
00:54:30 and just grow up and stop thinking, speaking,
00:54:32 and hearing childish and grow up by the word of God
00:54:37 so you can go take your stuff
00:54:39 (audience cheering)
00:54:42 Your grandchild is waiting on you to grow up.
00:54:45 I'm preaching.
00:54:51 I said I'm preaching.
00:54:54 I've been preaching almost 30 years.
00:54:58 I know when I'm preaching
00:54:59 'cause you ain't saying nothing.
00:55:00 That's when I'm preaching.
00:55:01 When I'm shouting, I'm just entertaining you,
00:55:04 but when you sitting there looking at me like this,
00:55:07 (audience laughing)
00:55:09 you don't know whether to hate me or love me.
00:55:12 I love you too much to have you suffer.
00:55:17 And forgive me if it don't come off like a mama.
00:55:23 I'm a father.
00:55:24 I can't hold you through this one.
00:55:25 I got to talk to you straight up,
00:55:27 right in your face and let you know,
00:55:29 baby girl, son, it's time.
00:55:31 It's the fullness of time.
00:55:33 (audience cheering)
00:55:36 God says I can't give it to you until you ready for it.
00:55:42 How many of y'all ready?
00:55:45 Come on now.
00:55:46 I said how many of y'all ready?
00:55:47 How many of y'all ready?
00:55:49 Ready to have your name on that business card,
00:55:51 ready for that business to be in your name,
00:55:53 ready for the LLC, ready for your family to be happy,
00:55:56 ready to have joy in your house,
00:55:58 ready to have peace in your home.
00:56:00 How many of y'all are ready?
00:56:02 (audience applauding)
00:56:04 And I ain't just talking about no money.
00:56:06 I'm not just talking about money.
00:56:10 I know a lot of people with money, they still sad.
00:56:12 I know a whole lot of people
00:56:15 and they got a whole lot of money
00:56:17 and yet they still can't find a place to lay their head.
00:56:20 Help me in this church, Jesus.
00:56:24 God says you are destined to inherit the kingdom
00:56:31 and yet you have slaves living better than you.
00:56:35 Not yet.
00:56:40 I ain't ready for them to shout.
00:56:41 Don't you let a slave outlive you.
00:56:48 Look at yourself in the mirror
00:56:56 and realize you were wonderfully made.
00:57:00 (audience murmuring)
00:57:02 He created you in his image and his likeness
00:57:07 and yet you have unbelievers living better than you
00:57:10 and happier than you and more peaceful than you
00:57:16 and they don't even have the joy of salvation.
00:57:18 It's 'cause you gotta stop speaking,
00:57:24 seeing and thinking as a child
00:57:28 so that the father can say she's ready.
00:57:30 He's ready and when you are ready,
00:57:36 you will start to see God work out things
00:57:38 you've been struggling to work on.
00:57:40 I know I'm right about it.
00:57:43 I'm gonna give you scripture.
00:57:53 Write down Galatians 3 and 26
00:57:57 and Galatians 3 and 29.
00:57:58 If you doubt me, endow him
00:58:02 'cause the Bible says likewise,
00:58:04 we are sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ
00:58:06 and we are heirs according to the promise.
00:58:09 Do you know what an heir is?
00:58:10 An heir is a person who gets to have
00:58:13 what the father has created for no other reason
00:58:17 than being related to him.
00:58:19 By virtue of my death,
00:58:24 my daughter becomes an heir of something
00:58:27 that God gave me the ability to build
00:58:29 that she had no part in.
00:58:31 And as African Americans,
00:58:35 it is hard for us to discuss this
00:58:36 because we are often not in a position
00:58:39 to leave anybody anything other than our debt.
00:58:41 So we don't know about heirs.
00:58:45 We don't know what it's like to be born rich.
00:58:48 But how many of y'all with me?
00:58:51 Your child gonna be born rich
00:58:54 and if they were not born rich,
00:58:55 they will be by the time the Lord takes you out of here
00:58:58 because you're gonna leave something behind
00:59:00 more than just trauma.
00:59:02 You're gonna leave some tools.
00:59:04 Who's with me today on that?
00:59:07 Touch somebody, say, for me and mine?
00:59:11 We gonna be all right.
00:59:12 How many of y'all believe that?
00:59:13 For me and mine, we gonna be all right.
00:59:15 If I don't care how long I gotta pray,
00:59:17 I don't care how much I gotta fast,
00:59:19 I don't care how many habits I gotta kick,
00:59:20 me and mine gonna be good.
00:59:23 Let me hurry up.
00:59:24 When I became a man, I put away childish things.
00:59:35 So I'm at the point in my life right now
00:59:37 that I don't have to get even with nobody.
00:59:39 You know why?
00:59:42 'Cause most of the people I gotta get even with,
00:59:44 I gotta back up to do it.
00:59:45 The people I'm trying to get even with are in front of me.
00:59:51 I ain't got time to be back here arguing
00:59:52 with somebody who's struggling to eat.
00:59:55 I'm trying to get up.
00:59:56 When you realize who you are,
01:00:03 it'll change who you argue with.
01:00:05 You heard me, ma'am.
01:00:10 When you find out who you are,
01:00:12 you gonna change who you argue with.
01:00:13 When somebody down here,
01:00:14 they not worth me coming from up here
01:00:18 to have a conversation down there.
01:00:20 (audience cheering)
01:00:23 Know who you are.
01:00:26 And you don't have to be rich to find it out.
01:00:31 And you don't need a mansion to be somebody.
01:00:34 You can be sleeping on your uncle's couch
01:00:36 and still be somebody.
01:00:38 Did you hear what I said?
01:00:40 You are heirs of God.
01:00:47 Did you hear what I said?
01:00:51 That's better than being an heir to John Rockefeller.
01:00:56 But you don't get it.
01:00:58 That's better than being related to Elon Musk.
01:01:03 But you don't get it.
01:01:05 That's better than being a part
01:01:07 of the JPMorgan Chase family.
01:01:09 But you don't get it.
01:01:11 Because this old earthly tabernacle shall dissolve.
01:01:16 I'm an heir of somebody who built a building
01:01:18 without using his hands, eternal in the heavens
01:01:21 and not in the earth.
01:01:22 And only what you do for Christ.
01:01:26 Even Jesus waited to come until it was the right time.
01:01:36 Pastor, I never thought about this.
01:01:39 But if you go back and study history,
01:01:41 at the time Jesus was born,
01:01:43 the Roman Empire had just gone through a renaissance
01:01:46 and become a world power.
01:01:47 So what happens when you become a world power?
01:01:49 You build bridges and roads and infrastructure
01:01:52 and aqueducts and water.
01:01:53 So Jesus waited until Rome had roads he could walk on.
01:01:57 Had he come when it was a desert,
01:02:05 how would they have found him?
01:02:06 He waited until they had villages and an emperor
01:02:10 and a Caesar and money and roads.
01:02:13 He waited until Rome had an infrastructure
01:02:15 and when the fullness of time came.
01:02:18 Then he stepped out of eternity,
01:02:20 stepped into humanity and was able to be the son of God
01:02:24 because even Jesus didn't show up too soon.
01:02:28 Did you hear what I said?
01:02:34 Had he existed any sooner,
01:02:39 the message wouldn't have got out
01:02:42 because there wouldn't have been no empire.
01:02:44 There would have been no roads.
01:02:46 There would have been no mail system.
01:02:47 There would have been no currency.
01:02:49 He wouldn't have had any tables to turn over
01:02:52 had he come before they had money.
01:02:53 All you in a hurry to show up too soon to find nothing.
01:03:04 Slow down.
01:03:14 (congregation cheering)
01:03:16 Stop looking at somebody who's already achieved
01:03:18 and thinking you can hurry up and get there
01:03:20 'cause you don't know the struggle
01:03:22 that they had to go through to get there.
01:03:23 You gotta go through your fullness too.
01:03:26 Anybody you look at and say,
01:03:30 "I want my family to be just like that."
01:03:31 Let me tell you, they went through something
01:03:32 to get their family just like that.
01:03:35 Anybody you look at and say, "I want my marriage like that."
01:03:37 Let me tell you, they went through something
01:03:38 to get their marriage like that.
01:03:41 I'm always enamored by this couple up here, the Walkers.
01:03:44 If you all know the Walkers, let me tell you something.
01:03:48 How long y'all been married?
01:03:49 20, 22 years.
01:03:52 I have never seen them not like that.
01:03:55 I've done Zooms with them and they were at home
01:04:00 and his wife was sitting beside him just like that.
01:04:06 You know, it's easy to do at church,
01:04:08 but when people at home, you know, at home,
01:04:11 everybody got they side of the couch, you know.
01:04:13 But I've never seen them not like that.
01:04:17 I don't know anything about their marriage,
01:04:22 but I will guarantee you that it didn't get like that
01:04:26 without struggle.
01:04:27 I guarantee you.
01:04:30 I guarantee you there were plenty of times
01:04:33 to say to hell with all of this.
01:04:35 I guarantee you there were times
01:04:36 when they looked at each other and decided,
01:04:38 you know what, I don't like you and you don't like me,
01:04:40 but what they did is they didn't think, see,
01:04:41 or speak negatively or childishly.
01:04:45 And God blesses them with a union
01:04:49 where in spite of imperfection,
01:04:51 they love each other unconditionally.
01:04:54 And you'll look at it and say,
01:04:55 I want a marriage like that, but you still.
01:04:58 Your words a little too sharp to hide it.
01:05:04 Your tongue a little too sharp to hide it.
01:05:06 Your mind ain't right.
01:05:07 (congregation laughing)
01:05:11 To hide it.
01:05:11 Let me let y'all go, 'cause now I done got you.
01:05:16 Last point.
01:05:21 Acts chapter two.
01:05:24 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
01:05:34 they were all with one accord in one place.
01:05:39 Are we all here in?
01:05:44 Y'all here, right?
01:05:45 Are you here?
01:05:45 Are you here, sir?
01:05:46 Ma'am, are you here?
01:05:48 Y'all here?
01:05:49 So we're all in one place.
01:05:51 Well, what happened on the day of Pentecost?
01:05:55 Number one, they were all in one place.
01:05:57 Okay, we all got that together.
01:05:59 Here's where it gets tricky.
01:06:01 They were all on.
01:06:02 (congregation murmuring)
01:06:05 Now this is where the problem arises,
01:06:07 because some of y'all listening,
01:06:09 and some of y'all done checked out already.
01:06:11 Some of y'all ain't hungry 'cause you're feeding on the word,
01:06:14 and some of y'all ain't ate none of this word,
01:06:15 so you starving in the spirit.
01:06:16 Some of you are already thinking about where to go next,
01:06:23 and some of y'all are thinking about how much of my sermon
01:06:25 you gonna use to check somebody.
01:06:26 By the way, if God wanted them checked,
01:06:31 they would've been here.
01:06:32 I'm checking you.
01:06:33 It's amazing how many people in church like,
01:06:39 ooh, I'm gonna tell Gerald this.
01:06:41 No, God talking to you, Sarah.
01:06:42 I'm gonna get Willie Earl with this one.
01:06:46 No, no, no, Lisa, we talking to you.
01:06:49 Where do those names come from?
01:06:54 Like, I don't use regular names.
01:06:57 I always use compound names.
01:06:59 Willie Earl's one of my favorite names anyway,
01:07:02 but the Bible says that they were in the same place,
01:07:06 and they were on one accord,
01:07:12 and because the conditions were right, suddenly.
01:07:19 Like, okay, it didn't even take long.
01:07:26 So like, even right now, what if 99% of us
01:07:29 are on one accord, and we got like two people on the fence
01:07:33 like, am I gonna go all the way in,
01:07:34 or am I gonna stay out, and the moment they decide,
01:07:37 I'm gonna get on one accord with everybody, boom.
01:07:39 Like, we literally could be one second away
01:07:45 from a corporate breakthrough.
01:07:48 Do me a favor, look down, start talking to people
01:07:53 you're on the road, say, I'm tired of being broke.
01:07:57 I'm tired of being depressed.
01:08:00 I'm tired of living less than a slave.
01:08:04 I'm tired of not having my inheritance.
01:08:07 Now, now I'm ready, but are you ready?
01:08:10 Because all of us gotta get on the same page
01:08:13 so we can get it all at the same time.
01:08:16 Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord.
01:08:23 Give your neighbor a high five and shout, neighbor,
01:08:26 it's our season, it's our time.
01:08:30 Now, I need everybody in this room
01:08:32 and everybody online to start shouting
01:08:36 like it's the fullness of time.
01:08:39 Open up your mouth and give God the praise.
01:08:42 I can't hear nobody.
01:08:47 I said, I can't hear nobody.
01:08:50 The conditions are right for God to perform a miracle.
01:08:55 Do me one favor, look your neighbor in the eye
01:08:59 and shout, neighbor, can I depend on you?
01:09:03 Well, let me see.
01:09:05 When I move, you move just like that.
01:09:09 Did they do anything?
01:09:15 Find you another neighbor.
01:09:17 Shout, neighbor, if I jump, you jump just like that.
01:09:22 Did they jump with you?
01:09:27 Find you somebody else.
01:09:30 Shout, neighbor, if I run, you run just like that.
01:09:35 Did they do anything?
01:09:43 Well, let's have a Holy Ghost party.
01:09:46 Slap your neighbor on the hand and tell him,
01:09:49 neighbor, I have a prophecy.
01:09:52 God told me to tell you it's your time.
01:09:56 If they didn't act a fool,
01:10:01 if they didn't act up, you got the wrong neighbor.
01:10:06 Shout, neighbor, it's your time.
01:10:11 (congregation cheering)
01:10:14 Oh my God, oh my God, I feel something.
01:10:23 Ask your neighbor, do you have the right mindset?
01:10:26 Do you have the right skill set?
01:10:28 Do you have the right mindset?
01:10:31 Do you have the right skill set?
01:10:33 Do you have the right worship?
01:10:36 Do you have the right heart?
01:10:38 'Cause I'm tired of living beneath my means.
01:10:41 I'm tired of being in the wrong room.
01:10:45 I feel like this is the day that the Lord has made.
01:10:50 Let us, let us, some of y'all don't know you in us.
01:10:55 I said, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
01:11:02 Shout it, yeah.
01:11:05 (congregation cheering)
01:11:08 Oh, shout it, yeah.
01:11:13 (congregation cheering)
01:11:19 I didn't get dressed, drive 30 minutes,
01:11:31 sit next to somebody I don't know,
01:11:33 and not leave here with a breakthrough.
01:11:35 I believe I'm sitting next to somebody
01:11:44 who's on assignment to help us both get a breakthrough.
01:11:46 Tell your neighbor, this ain't no accident.
01:11:51 This ain't no accident.
01:11:52 This is an appointment, this is an appointment.
01:11:55 I got your back and you got my back.
01:11:57 Over the next 30 seconds,
01:11:58 I'm about to shout for your daughter.
01:12:00 Over the next 30 seconds, I'm about to shout for your son.
01:12:03 Over the next 30 seconds,
01:12:04 I'm about to shout for your miracle.
01:12:06 Shout it, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:12:11 (congregation cheering)
01:12:14 It's your time, it's your time, it's your time.
01:12:20 It's your time, it's your time, it's your time.
01:12:23 (congregation cheering)
01:12:26 (upbeat music)
01:12:28 I swear to you, when it's your time,
01:12:52 everything will just start working out.
01:12:54 (congregation cheering)
01:12:57 Hallelujah.
01:13:06 I got some things I'm asking God to do.
01:13:22 I got some things that can't nobody do but Him.
01:13:24 And I gotta stop thinking, seeing, and speaking negatively.
01:13:33 I gotta put away childish things
01:13:36 so that the Father can say I'm ready.
01:13:39 Thou good and faithful servant,
01:13:42 you've been faithful over a few things.
01:13:45 Now it is your time, Kairos, to be ruler over much.
01:13:51 (congregation cheering)
01:13:55 Hallelujah.
01:13:57 Lift your hands.
01:13:59 Father God, we need you today.
01:14:02 Turn it around in our favor.
01:14:06 And maybe where we are is our fault,
01:14:11 but you are God of grace and mercy.
01:14:12 Thank you, Holy Spirit, for that.
01:14:16 Lord, show us your glory.
01:14:18 Show us your glory.
01:14:21 (congregation cheering)
01:14:22 There will be glory after this.
01:14:23 It won't always be like this, Lord.
01:14:28 We know you will perfect that which concern us,
01:14:31 but just give us the patience to wait
01:14:32 until sooner and later becomes right now.
01:14:36 In Jesus' name we pray.
01:14:39 Come on, somebody, use your heavenly language.
01:14:41 Begin to speak to Him in this place.
01:14:43 Come on, use your language, use your language.
01:14:50 It's easy to clap, but open your mouth.
01:14:51 Come on, say something to Him.
01:14:53 The Bible says when you clap, you summon angels,
01:14:56 but when you wanna talk to God, you gotta use your voice.
01:14:58 Come on, open up your mouth.
01:15:00 ♪ Turn it around ♪
01:15:05 ♪ Turn it around for me ♪
01:15:09 ♪ It won't always be like this ♪
01:15:18 ♪ Oh, that which concern me ♪
01:15:23 ♪ Sooner or later ♪
01:15:27 ♪ Sooner or later ♪
01:15:29 ♪ It's gonna turn in your favor ♪
01:15:31 ♪ Turn in my favor ♪
01:15:35 ♪ Ooh, turn it around for me ♪
01:15:38 ♪ Turn it around for me ♪
01:15:41 Hallelujah.
01:15:43 Listen, I told you guys this.
01:15:46 I promise this has been
01:15:48 probably the most trying 10 days I've had in a long time.
01:15:55 I'm going through some things
01:16:03 while I'm trying to get my work in order.
01:16:06 And yet, while I'm talking to you,
01:16:14 my brother is still in intensive care.
01:16:19 And about, I'm guessing, almost two weeks ago,
01:16:27 I'm guessing 10 days ago, it was a Wednesday,
01:16:31 and my wife and I literally were in Bush Airport, IAH,
01:16:40 and we were at gate D1, headed to Orlando
01:16:45 for something that my wife had to do for work.
01:16:51 Literally standing behind her.
01:16:54 My phone rings, it's my sister-in-law, screaming.
01:16:59 And she said, "It's T," that's what we called my brother.
01:17:05 Said, "Well, what's wrong?"
01:17:06 She said, "He was," she said,
01:17:08 "All I know is he was working out,
01:17:10 and he threw his last punch, he was boxing,
01:17:14 he threw his last punch, and then he just fell."
01:17:16 Thank God he was cognitive enough,
01:17:22 he called 911 himself.
01:17:25 Sometimes you gotta know when you're in trouble.
01:17:28 Ambulance shows up, takes him to the hospital.
01:17:32 They do a test on him,
01:17:35 and they find that his brain is bleeding.
01:17:40 They can't find out where it's coming from,
01:17:41 so they send him to another hospital.
01:17:44 They take several tests.
01:17:45 After a day or two, they find out
01:17:48 that he not only had one, but two aneurysms.
01:17:51 What gate are we at?
01:17:57 D1.
01:17:59 When she called me, I literally started sweating
01:18:04 the same way I'm sweating right now.
01:18:05 It was almost as if I was preaching a sermon.
01:18:07 I couldn't believe the news.
01:18:08 My wife said what's wrong.
01:18:10 I walked away, went into the restroom,
01:18:11 got the sweat off of my head,
01:18:16 wiped the tears out of my eyes, came back out.
01:18:18 She said, "Is everything all right?"
01:18:20 I said, "It was Mo.
01:18:21 This is what she just said."
01:18:23 Called back, put my wife on the phone with her.
01:18:26 My wife says, "We can't go where we're going
01:18:31 with her sounding like that."
01:18:33 This is at six o'clock.
01:18:37 The flight leaves at 619.
01:18:39 (soft music)
01:18:42 She calls a travel agent.
01:18:43 She says, "Sarah, we gotta change plans.
01:18:47 We're going to Orlando, but we need to go to San Diego."
01:18:49 So now we're talking about the entire
01:18:51 opposite end of the country.
01:18:52 She says, "Okay, well, let me look at it."
01:18:58 I don't know what happens, but my wife leaves the line.
01:19:00 She goes to the screens and she starts to look at the board.
01:19:03 I guess they're talking about what flight.
01:19:05 She says, "There's only one more flight
01:19:07 that goes out of Bush today that goes to San Diego.
01:19:12 It leaves at seven."
01:19:13 Anybody ever flown out of Bush,
01:19:18 there are 161 gates in that airport.
01:19:22 And if you got to go from D to E or from C to A,
01:19:27 it's at least 25, 30 minutes to get there.
01:19:30 My wife says, "You're not going to believe this.
01:19:36 The flight that goes to San Diego leaves from gate D1."
01:19:41 (congregation applauding)
01:19:47 So all we have to do is sit down and wait on God.
01:19:54 And the equivalent of time, listen to me,
01:20:02 we would not have gotten to Orlando
01:20:05 until nine o'clock.
01:20:07 We got to San Diego at eight o'clock
01:20:12 because of the time difference.
01:20:14 So we showed up where we were not scheduled to go sooner
01:20:18 than we would have gotten if we had gone
01:20:26 where we were set to go.
01:20:28 I have no doubt in my mind that that was a Kairos moment.
01:20:31 We were never going to Orlando.
01:20:34 (congregation applauding)
01:20:36 But God needed us in the airport.
01:20:38 At the time we needed to be in the airport,
01:20:42 at the exact gate we needed to be at
01:20:45 so that we could leave when we needed to leave.
01:20:48 We were never going to Orlando.
01:20:50 My wife was never going to do a job there,
01:20:53 but he had to use the things he knew what we would respond to
01:20:56 to get us where we needed to be.
01:21:01 All I'm telling you is,
01:21:03 it might look like you're going one place.
01:21:05 It might look like it's going another direction.
01:21:07 All God is doing is strategically getting you to the place.
01:21:11 That's called the fullness of time
01:21:15 where everything works out
01:21:18 for you to be exactly where you need to be.
01:21:22 And out of the last 10 days,
01:21:27 my wife and I have been in a hospital with him for six,
01:21:30 which means I have flown back here to preach to you,
01:21:32 flown back here to have my staff meetings,
01:21:35 flown back there to sit in the hospital five hours a day,
01:21:38 to fly back here to do my job with you,
01:21:40 to preaching in Atlanta yesterday,
01:21:42 to not saying, "I'm tired, I need a day off.
01:21:51 "I got a job to do."
01:21:53 And I flew back here to be with you
01:21:55 because this is my Kairos.
01:21:58 This is, can't nobody do this job but me
01:22:01 because I'm appointed to do it.
01:22:03 And there was a job that nobody can do but you.
01:22:08 And you can't be too tired to do your job.
01:22:12 And you can't be too hurt to do your job.
01:22:14 And you can't be too frustrated to do your job.
01:22:17 You got to do it while you're struggling.
01:22:18 You got to do it while your heart is broken.
01:22:20 I'll cry later, but now I have to preach.
01:22:27 And that's how I know God knows I'm ready
01:22:29 because I'll do anything to be in my purpose.
01:22:32 Ain't no mountain too high.
01:22:35 Ain't no valley too low.
01:22:38 Ain't no river too wide
01:22:40 for me to do what God has called me to do.
01:22:43 I will be on the wall when it is my time and my season.
01:22:46 If this sermon was for you,
01:22:49 and you believe that your Kairos,
01:22:53 your fullness of time is here,
01:22:56 can you begin to just pray on your own for 30 seconds
01:22:59 and then we're going to leave.
01:23:00 Come on, online, I need you to do it.
01:23:02 I can't, I don't know what you need.
01:23:04 He's turning around for you.
01:23:06 ♪ It won't always ♪
01:23:08 ♪ It won't always be like this ♪
01:23:13 ♪ The Lord will perfect that which concerns you ♪
01:23:17 ♪ The Lord will perfect that concerning me ♪
01:23:22 ♪ Sooner or later ♪
01:23:24 ♪ Sooner or later ♪
01:23:28 ♪ It will, it will, it will, it will ♪
01:23:31 ♪ Sooner or later ♪
01:23:33 ♪ Ooh, turn it around, yeah ♪
01:23:36 ♪ Sooner or later ♪
01:23:38 - Spirit of the living God, fall fresh upon us.
01:23:40 Get us to our gate.
01:23:42 Get us to our place, get us to our season.
01:23:46 'Cause we believe the fullness of time has come.
01:23:49 We've paid our dues, we've had our struggles,
01:23:52 we've prayed our prayers.
01:23:53 Now we're ready to walk into destiny.
01:23:55 In Jesus' name we pray.
01:23:57 If you believe it, come on, put those hands together
01:23:58 and bless the Lord in this place.
01:24:00 Come on, it's giving time.
01:24:04 Come on and give Him glory, it's giving time.
01:24:06 Hallelujah.
01:24:10 If you need an envelope, raise your hand, raise your hand.
01:24:15 If you're gonna give electronically, you give that way.
01:24:18 Those of you all who are watching me online,
01:24:20 I want you to be faithful in your giving today,
01:24:23 not because I asked,
01:24:24 but because God says it's just right to do.
01:24:26 Can I tell you something?
01:24:29 I've been a faithful giver to God, and this is the truth.
01:24:34 My mother taught me to tithe when I was six.
01:24:36 We used to have to take, we got allowance,
01:24:41 and my mama would give us these little plastic Ziploc bags,
01:24:47 and we had to put 10% of our money
01:24:48 in the plastic Ziploc bag,
01:24:49 and we had to take that bag to church every Sunday to tithe.
01:24:53 And from that moment until this moment,
01:24:56 I've seen the blessings of the Lord over my life
01:24:58 because all of this time I've been faithful.
01:25:01 Here's why, because all of my life He's been faithful.
01:25:04 How many of you know that God is faithful?
01:25:07 So when you give, this isn't a gimmick.
01:25:10 The Bible says, "Give and it shall be given unto you.
01:25:13 "Good measure, pressed down, shaking together
01:25:14 "and running over shall men give unto your bosoms."
01:25:16 God says, "When you give to me,
01:25:18 "I will make sure that people with money
01:25:20 "have you on their mind
01:25:21 "when they're looking to get rid of it."
01:25:23 I'll make sure that bosses give you raises.
01:25:26 I'll make sure that companies hire your skillset.
01:25:29 Some of you all, the only thing between you and wealth
01:25:32 is you haven't started the company
01:25:33 God has told you to start yet.
01:25:34 God wants to do something through you.
01:25:37 If you believe that this is your due season
01:25:39 to operate in fullness and wealth,
01:25:41 I want you to stand on your feet.
01:25:42 I don't want you to give seated today.
01:25:43 I want you to give on your feet.
01:25:51 Watch this.
01:25:52 For those of you all who said,
01:25:52 "You know, I hadn't even planned on giving today.
01:25:55 "I hadn't planned on tithing today."
01:25:57 I thought about something.
01:25:58 I was listening to a podcast yesterday,
01:26:01 and I can't get into all of the nuances
01:26:04 of why this is important,
01:26:05 but there is a number that is associated with wealth.
01:26:09 It is the number 28.
01:26:11 I want you to pay attention to this.
01:26:13 Anytime you see a Rolex being marketed,
01:26:18 the date always says the 28th.
01:26:21 (soft music)
01:26:23 I don't have time to break it all down.
01:26:24 You're just gonna have to trust me
01:26:26 that the number 28, Bill Gates was born on the 28th.
01:26:28 (soft music)
01:26:29 There was something about wealth and this number 28,
01:26:33 but look it up.
01:26:34 You can Google it right now.
01:26:35 Now, if you Google a Rolex
01:26:37 that's being resold by somebody else,
01:26:41 you're not gonna see this date,
01:26:42 but Rolex themselves, they always set the date for the 28th.
01:26:45 Every billboard.
01:26:48 So if you haven't decided what you're gonna give today,
01:26:50 I challenge you to give a $28 seat
01:26:52 and say, "God, I'm ready to be wealthy."
01:26:54 And I'm gonna start with this $28 seat
01:26:56 as a way of showing you that when you speak to me,
01:26:58 I'll respond.
01:26:59 Hallelujah to the name of the Lord.
01:27:02 How many of y'all ready to be blessed?
01:27:06 All right.
01:27:08 Do me a favor, tell your neighbor, say, "Neighbor."
01:27:10 You were not that quiet
01:27:12 when you thought the blessing was gonna be given to you.
01:27:18 It's amazing how we get quiet
01:27:19 when we gotta do something to get it.
01:27:21 And this is what separates the wheat from the tare.
01:27:26 This is why, listen to me, look at me.
01:27:29 We don't have a top 3% only
01:27:33 because of segregation and racial disparity.
01:27:36 We have a top 3, 1% because the top three and 1%,
01:27:40 they follow a principle, even if they don't believe in God.
01:27:43 Give and it shall be given.
01:27:44 That's why every wealthy person you know has a foundation.
01:27:47 - Amen.
01:27:48 - So God has to follow his law,
01:27:51 even if you don't believe in him.
01:27:53 - Amen.
01:27:54 - That's why you have rich devils,
01:27:57 because they follow principles
01:27:59 and God has to honor his word,
01:28:00 even if you don't believe in him.
01:28:02 Now, what more would he do for those of us
01:28:06 who call him Lord and Savior and Christ?
01:28:12 I want you to proceed this gift with a worship.
01:28:14 If you are getting ready to give
01:28:16 and you want God to bless your life,
01:28:17 get unsleepy for five seconds and give him glory.
01:28:20 Give him glory.
01:28:20 Yeah, that ain't good enough.
01:28:24 I said give him glory.
01:28:26 As I move towards greater,
01:28:30 I will accept all divine ideas,
01:28:35 thoughts or concepts that will connect me to my destiny.
01:28:39 I believe that what Jesus Christ has done for me
01:28:44 is bigger than what anyone has, can and will do to me.
01:28:49 And because of his full gift,
01:28:51 I will lend to many nations, but will borrow from none.
01:28:55 If you believe that, shout.
01:28:57 (logo whooshes)
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