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00:00:00 Welcome to the Lighthouse, Lighthouse
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00:00:13 Numbers chapter 21
00:00:15 Numbers chapter 21 verse 4
00:00:19 God doesn't make any mistakes, church
00:00:24 And I'm reading for the King James Version of the Bible just because I like the way it sounds
00:00:30 The Bible says in Numbers 21 and 4 it says
00:00:35 And they journeyed from Mount Or by the way of the Red Sea to come past the land of Edom
00:00:42 And I want you to identify yourself if this is you
00:00:46 And the souls of the people were discouraged
00:00:49 Because of the way they had to take
00:00:52 You don't always want to go the way God says you gotta go
00:00:56 It can be discouraging
00:00:58 To have to listen to God
00:01:01 Now I know y'all don't want to admit it
00:01:03 Sometimes listening to God is painful
00:01:06 You want to listen to yourself
00:01:10 Always remember this
00:01:12 When you listen to you, you have to bring you out
00:01:14 Listening to you, God says
00:01:19 I promise you this is what the Bible says
00:01:21 The Bible says that when the people would not listen to God
00:01:23 Paul says that he turned them over to a reprobate mind
00:01:26 What that meant is God says
00:01:28 Because you won't listen to me, I'm going to turn you over to yourself
00:01:32 But in exchange for turning you over to yourself
00:01:35 I'm also going to put you in charge of your own deliverance
00:01:40 How many of you know you don't have the power to get yourself out?
00:01:43 Anybody need God? I do
00:01:45 And the people spake unto God and against Moses
00:01:51 They were like
00:01:53 And I'm just going to paraphrase
00:01:54 When we were in Egypt, yes they were beating us
00:01:57 But at least we had a roof over our head
00:01:59 Yes we were slaves
00:02:01 But at least we had three meals a day
00:02:03 And you brought us out here in the wilderness to die
00:02:06 There is no bread, there is no water
00:02:09 And our soul, in other words it says
00:02:12 It loatheth this light bread
00:02:14 It means that they are tired of eating the same thing
00:02:18 And the Lord says
00:02:22 Oh, you tired of the bread?
00:02:24 I got some better
00:02:27 Let me send the snakes
00:02:29 And so he sent fiery serpents
00:02:33 And fiery serpents means that these were not boa constrictors
00:02:37 These were venomous snakes
00:02:39 These were vipers
00:02:41 And they bit the people
00:02:45 And some of them did die
00:02:48 Therefore the people came to Moses and said
00:02:51 Okay, all right, we got it, we sinned, we sorry
00:02:54 We spoke against the Lord
00:02:57 And now we just pray
00:03:01 Unto the Lord that he takes away the snakes
00:03:06 Somebody say Lord do something with these snakes
00:03:09 The Lord said unto Moses
00:03:18 I want you to take and make a fiery serpent
00:03:24 And I want you to set it on a pole
00:03:27 And it shall come to pass
00:03:30 That everyone that was bitten
00:03:33 When they look at the thing that you have been making
00:03:39 The snake, the bronze snake on the pole
00:03:42 It says that if you look on it
00:03:45 Ye shall live
00:03:51 Somebody shout I shall live
00:03:53 And not die
00:03:56 You already know the subject
00:03:58 I want to talk today
00:04:00 To those of you who have been bitten
00:04:02 By some unexpected fiery serpent
00:04:06 God sent me to tell you
00:04:09 That he's about to give you the victory
00:04:11 Over the venom
00:04:14 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord
00:04:17 Somebody say it again, victory
00:04:21 Over the venom
00:04:26 You do know that
00:04:28 Your life goes in the direction
00:04:33 Of the way you look
00:04:36 Whatever you are looking at right now
00:04:41 Whatever you are focused on
00:04:44 You will get it, let me tell you why
00:04:47 Your subconscious
00:04:51 Does not understand the word
00:04:54 Don't or not
00:04:56 Your subconscious doesn't
00:05:02 It doesn't understand negative
00:05:05 You understand, you were not built by God
00:05:09 To be negative
00:05:11 So when you say
00:05:14 I don't want
00:05:16 You fill in the blank
00:05:18 The reason why you get it
00:05:20 Is because the mind doesn't hear don't
00:05:23 All the subconscious hear is
00:05:25 What you fill in the blank with
00:05:27 And so the mind hears
00:05:29 I want fill in the blank
00:05:31 So let me put it this way
00:05:34 I don't want cancer
00:05:36 I don't want cancer
00:05:38 I don't want cancer
00:05:39 All the brain hears in the subconscious
00:05:41 I want cancer
00:05:43 Because the subconscious doesn't
00:05:46 Calculate negativity
00:05:48 Because God did not build you
00:05:51 To be a negative person
00:05:53 He built you to have hope everlasting
00:05:57 To have peace in the midst of a storm
00:06:00 And to be content
00:06:03 In whatever state you're in
00:06:05 So you have to speak life
00:06:09 In order not to experience death
00:06:13 But most of us
00:06:18 The only thing we can speak about
00:06:21 Is what we see
00:06:23 But what is faith?
00:06:26 Faith is the substance of what?
00:06:29 And the what?
00:06:32 Of things
00:06:34 So then you have to spend more of your time
00:06:36 Speaking about the things you want to see
00:06:39 As opposed to the things that you are seeing
00:06:43 Okay, so if you want a positive experience
00:06:47 It doesn't start with hope
00:06:49 It starts with speech
00:06:51 You have to speak positive
00:06:55 Even though things are not the way you want them to be
00:07:00 Let me tell you something
00:07:04 People who speak positively all the time
00:07:06 You irritate negative people
00:07:08 They can't stand it
00:07:10 They say, "You happy all the time?"
00:07:12 Yes, you want me to be sad like you?
00:07:14 Because if I'm sad like you, who's going to support me?
00:07:16 I can't support you
00:07:18 You have to encompass the thing that God gave you
00:07:22 Don't let anybody wipe that smile off of your face
00:07:24 Because it irritates them
00:07:26 You got to have joy
00:07:30 Unspeakable joy
00:07:32 Are you with me so far?
00:07:34 Now I'm telling you this for a specific reason
00:07:37 Because everything that we see Israel go through
00:07:39 They spoke it
00:07:41 It wasn't what God wanted for them
00:07:44 It is what happened to them
00:07:45 Because they could not control their language
00:07:48 Based on the stimuli or the circumstances that they were in
00:07:52 Now when we look at this scripture
00:07:54 Apart from Genesis chapter 3
00:07:58 When Satan came in the garden as a serpent
00:08:00 This is the most famous snake in the Bible
00:08:04 So where do we see a snake for the first time?
00:08:08 Adam and Eve are where?
00:08:10 In the garden
00:08:11 And what happens in the garden?
00:08:13 The snake comes and tells them what?
00:08:15 You can have what God said
00:08:19 Y'all read it right?
00:08:21 So God told them not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
00:08:25 And then the snake came in and said what?
00:08:27 That's not what God said
00:08:29 So a snake in your life
00:08:31 Is not somebody who disagrees with you
00:08:33 It's somebody who disagrees with God
00:08:35 And so you have to understand
00:08:40 The devil is going to send people in your life
00:08:44 That contradicts what God told you
00:08:47 And he knows before the game starts
00:08:51 That if he can get you to listen to the thing
00:08:53 Or the person or the mindset or the stimuli that disagrees with God
00:08:58 Then he's going to back out of the garden
00:09:00 Because he understands that his consequences have already been given
00:09:04 Remember the snake used to walk on legs
00:09:06 The Lord cursed him to his belly and to crawl in the dust
00:09:10 So he has already received his punishment for his disagreement with God
00:09:13 So the only thing that's left to punish is you
00:09:17 And so the devil is trying to get you off of your feet
00:09:21 Like he got knocked off of his
00:09:23 And he wants you crawling on your belly in the dust
00:09:28 Frustrated
00:09:30 When you have been built to have life
00:09:32 And to have life more
00:09:34 Somebody shout I want the abundant life
00:09:37 Now
00:09:41 When we read this
00:09:43 Jesus even mentions
00:09:47 Out of his own mouth this particular snake
00:09:49 That we're going to read about and study for the next few moments
00:09:52 In Numbers chapter 21
00:09:54 How many of y'all have ever heard this scripture?
00:09:56 I want to be very practical today
00:09:58 I want you to get this because this is going to strengthen you for your journey going forward
00:10:01 This is probably the most famous scripture in the whole Bible
00:10:05 For God
00:10:07 And where is that found?
00:10:17 Raise your hand if you knew that already
00:10:20 Look around
00:10:21 I don't see any hand that didn't know John 3 16
00:10:24 But ask your neighbor do you know John 3 14?
00:10:29 They like cuz what you asking me that for?
00:10:35 This ain't no quiz this church
00:10:37 Do you know John 3 15?
00:10:41 Yes, maybe
00:10:43 But we all know John 3 16
00:10:45 Let me teach you something about the Bible
00:10:47 Don't just memorize the verse
00:10:49 That's important
00:10:51 Always go back and read
00:10:53 The verses before it
00:10:55 Why?
00:10:56 Because it gives you the context
00:10:58 And you'll understand what God was actually saying
00:11:02 As it relates to this
00:11:04 Now if you can production team bring up John 3 and 14
00:11:07 On the screen
00:11:09 I want to read John 3 14
00:11:11 I want to read John 3 and 15
00:11:13 And then we'll read John 3 16
00:11:16 And once we get all of those scriptures together
00:11:19 You will be able to get a totalitarian view
00:11:23 Of what I'm saying
00:11:25 And so it'll help you
00:11:28 So John 3 and 14
00:11:30 Here we go
00:11:32 And Moses
00:11:33 Now this is in John
00:11:35 That the gospel is referring to an Old Testament character
00:11:38 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness
00:11:41 Even so the Son of Man must be lifted up
00:11:44 Alright?
00:11:46 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life
00:11:49 Next verse
00:11:50 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son
00:11:53 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life
00:11:56 So when you read this in totality
00:11:59 It is actually John referring to Jesus as the serpent in numbers
00:12:07 This is so important
00:12:11 Because of what the serpent was
00:12:14 Tripped into doing by the enemy
00:12:17 Everybody hates snakes
00:12:20 Well not everybody
00:12:22 Let me just ask
00:12:23 How many people like snakes?
00:12:25 Just raise your hand
00:12:27 Lord God in the name of Jesus
00:12:30 I speak peace over their spirit
00:12:34 Y'all ever heard this story about the lady who was sleeping
00:12:38 In the bed with a snake?
00:12:41 And she said
00:12:43 She took him to the vet
00:12:45 And she said
00:12:47 He stopped eating
00:12:49 And she started feeling bad for him
00:12:51 And y'all know the story
00:12:53 And the doctor says, the vet says
00:12:55 Has your snake been cuddling up to you more lately?
00:13:01 She said yeah
00:13:03 It sure has
00:13:05 It's just so sad
00:13:07 And the vet said
00:13:09 The snake is not getting close to you because it's lonely
00:13:12 It's been watching you when you were asleep
00:13:14 Sizing you up
00:13:16 To find out how much it's going to take to eat you
00:13:19 And see that's why you gotta be careful
00:13:21 Cause some people will get close to you
00:13:24 And you'll be up here talking about
00:13:30 Oh they just love me, I got me a new friend
00:13:32 And you don't know they sizing you up
00:13:34 To find out how much effort it's going to take to swallow you whole
00:13:38 And so because of what the snake did in the garden
00:13:48 It cannot be redeemed
00:13:50 Everybody talks about snakes
00:13:52 Three people raised their hands
00:13:54 Talking about they like snakes
00:13:56 There's just this attitude between us and snakes
00:13:58 Because it tricked Eve and Eve and Adam
00:14:02 And Adam told Cain and Abel
00:14:04 And Cain and Abel told their children
00:14:06 And from the beginning of history
00:14:08 Everybody's been taught to not like snakes
00:14:10 And here Jesus is
00:14:14 Identifying with one
00:14:17 See this is why you have to be careful with the devil
00:14:19 Is because he will take the power from that which God created
00:14:22 And have us demonizing a very thing
00:14:26 That's needed for our redemption
00:14:29 So the reason why people wouldn't look at the snake
00:14:31 Is because they know what the snake did in the garden
00:14:34 Not recognizing that God was going to use the snake to get them out
00:14:37 I want to help some of y'all
00:14:39 Will you just stand still
00:14:42 Long enough to let God
00:14:45 Use your snakes
00:14:47 Every time somebody come into your life
00:14:53 You ready to cut the head off of the serpent
00:14:56 You ready to get all of the snakes out of your life
00:14:58 Not recognizing that God uses the snakes to get you to the next place
00:15:03 Oh this is going to get good today
00:15:11 Somebody say Lord use the snakes
00:15:15 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
00:15:18 That whosoever believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life
00:15:23 Paul also associated a snake with Jesus
00:15:26 1 Corinthians 10 verse 9
00:15:28 Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted
00:15:32 And were destroyed of serpents
00:15:34 The context is that the children of Israel
00:15:38 Listen to me
00:15:39 For the last 40 years
00:15:41 Have been walking through this desert
00:15:44 Somebody show me where the water is
00:15:49 Somebody show me where the grapes are
00:15:54 Somebody where is the manor
00:16:00 Where is Walmart
00:16:04 Somebody show me where is Target
00:16:06 I don't see Target
00:16:08 Does anybody see Neiman Marcus
00:16:11 I don't see it
00:16:13 Do you see Saks Fifth Avenue
00:16:15 Do you see a mirror
00:16:17 I'm just asking what's in the wilderness
00:16:21 You
00:16:23 You
00:16:28 And how do you get supply in the wilderness
00:16:31 God
00:16:33 He literally has to make a way
00:16:38 Out of nowhere
00:16:40 And this is where God puts his people for 40 years
00:16:45 And they're walking around it
00:16:47 And our text brings us to the place
00:16:51 Where they are 90 days away from walking into Canaan
00:16:55 Where the land is flowing with milk and honey
00:16:57 They are 90 days away from the Galileo
00:17:00 They are 90 days away from Katie
00:17:03 They are 90 days away
00:17:05 From new houses that they did not build
00:17:08 Vineyards they did not plant
00:17:10 They are 90 days away
00:17:12 And just as they are getting ready to walk in
00:17:14 God
00:17:16 In his infinite wisdom
00:17:18 Sends another detour
00:17:20 Or this I'm going to teach you today
00:17:23 Because most people get upset with God
00:17:26 And this is why his ways are not our ways
00:17:28 And his thoughts are not our thoughts
00:17:30 They thought that after 40 years God
00:17:32 Of wandering in this wilderness
00:17:34 After 40 years of going to church
00:17:36 And to the tabernacle and praising your name
00:17:38 After 40 years of giving you our unadulterated worship
00:17:43 Just as we are getting ready to get a breakthrough
00:17:46 You give us an additional detour
00:17:49 And how does he do it
00:17:56 They need to go to a place
00:17:58 And through a place called Edom
00:18:01 And so Moses sends a letter ahead to the king of Edom
00:18:05 And says we are about to go to the promised land
00:18:08 I have gotten these people through this stuff
00:18:10 For the last 40 years
00:18:12 We are getting ready to walk into the promised land
00:18:14 Sir can you help us
00:18:16 If you will just let us go through Edom
00:18:18 We can walk through your city
00:18:20 And walk right into our promise
00:18:22 And the bible says that the king of Edom said
00:18:25 No
00:18:27 Now
00:18:29 I know God
00:18:31 Could have caused him to say yes
00:18:33 The same way he did Pharaoh
00:18:35 You remember when God wanted him out of Egypt
00:18:38 And he did not want to let him go
00:18:40 And Moses told Pharaoh that God said let my people go
00:18:43 And Pharaoh said no
00:18:45 Then God sent 10 plagues
00:18:47 And the death of the first born
00:18:49 Until Pharaoh said yes
00:18:51 But he did not do this to the kingdom of Edom
00:18:53 Which means that this detour is a part of the plan
00:18:57 Oh God
00:18:59 Y'all not going to say amen in here today
00:19:01 What God wants me to tell you
00:19:04 Is that you are not getting in anything
00:19:07 That is going to help you get to a shortcut
00:19:10 God says I am taking you the long way around
00:19:13 Because I am trying to teach you
00:19:16 To stop begging people to let you in
00:19:19 When I never invited you to go
00:19:22 God help me in this place today
00:19:24 I am about to preach and I have to do it by myself
00:19:27 Can I get about 500 people to slap somebody and say
00:19:30 Stop begging people
00:19:32 Stop begging them to let you in
00:19:34 Stop begging them to light you
00:19:36 Stop begging them to open their doors
00:19:38 It must mean that God is going to get you there without them
00:19:42 God says you must not know who you are
00:19:50 Because you keep begging folk to let you in
00:19:52 You keep begging folk to let you in the crowd
00:19:54 You keep trying to be friends with people
00:19:56 Who obviously have no affinity for you
00:19:58 Sometimes God says
00:20:00 I don't want you to go through Edom
00:20:02 Because if I let you go through Edom
00:20:04 You are going to have relationships with people
00:20:07 Who are not good for where you are going
00:20:10 So sometimes
00:20:18 Even though you are close
00:20:21 You have to go around it
00:20:25 And if you look on the map
00:20:29 Edom is that way
00:20:32 And Canaan is that way
00:20:35 Which means sometimes you can be going in the opposite direction of your destiny
00:20:39 And still be going the right way
00:20:48 Sometimes God has to let you hit rock bottom
00:20:52 Old country western singer said
00:20:54 It's alright because rock bottom is solid ground
00:20:57 Everything else you have built your life on
00:21:00 Has been shifty and shaky
00:21:02 And plastic and fake
00:21:04 God says I wanted you to hit the bottom
00:21:06 Because from there is the only place
00:21:08 You can put a stake in the ground
00:21:10 And really build something that will survive the earthquakes
00:21:13 That your life will incur
00:21:15 Somebody shout I'm glad to be at the bottom
00:21:18 Because God is about to take me to the top
00:21:21 I want anybody in this place today
00:21:23 Who thought that because you were not going directly in the direction
00:21:27 That you thought you needed to go
00:21:29 You thought you were failing
00:21:31 But let me tell you sometimes success is a detour
00:21:33 No, no, no, no, no, y'all ain't hearing me
00:21:37 When you got fired that was success
00:21:40 You missed it
00:21:42 When your relationship ended that was God's plan
00:21:45 When you lost the house that was a part of the journey
00:21:49 When you went through foreclosure and they repossessed the car
00:21:53 God says check that was on the tooth
00:21:55 Because I'm trying to show you
00:21:57 That I'm the only one that can make a way
00:22:00 Out of no way
00:22:06 And the reason why some of you don't have any strength
00:22:11 Is because when you're weak you have too many options
00:22:14 If you don't have it your daddy will do it
00:22:19 If your daddy don't do it your mama will do it
00:22:21 If your mama won't do it your auntie will do it
00:22:23 If your auntie won't do it you got a friend that will do it
00:22:25 God said I'm taking that, I'm taking that, I'm taking that, I'm taking that
00:22:27 And I'm going to put you in the midst of a wilderness to see
00:22:30 If you'll trust me more than you trust your mama
00:22:40 So you'll start to see God
00:22:42 Just removing things you depend on
00:22:46 He'll give them back when you trust him
00:22:50 Because anything you depend on more than you depend on God
00:22:54 Is called idolatry
00:22:56 And God is a jealous God and he'll have no other God before him
00:22:59 So some of the things you lost in your life
00:23:01 Is not because they were not good for you
00:23:03 It's because you worshiped them
00:23:09 God says I need you to be here
00:23:13 I need you here
00:23:16 Where you can walk in the confidence
00:23:20 That I can still provide in dry places
00:23:23 How many of y'all are here right now?
00:23:27 Just, you don't know where the next smile is coming from
00:23:37 You don't know, where is the next breakthrough?
00:23:39 Can somebody show me where Breakthrough Boulevard is?
00:23:42 Where is Overcome Street?
00:23:47 Where is Million Dollar Avenue?
00:23:52 God says I will not show you a way
00:23:58 I will just tell you to go
00:24:01 And to see if you will trust me
00:24:05 When I add detours
00:24:08 Will you believe me when you're close?
00:24:14 God help me in this place
00:24:16 Will you still be able to love people
00:24:19 When the last person you needed told you no?
00:24:22 Because the negativity of somebody
00:24:27 Will make you turn on everybody
00:24:29 Oh God help me in this place
00:24:33 God wants you to know
00:24:37 That he is the ruler of the route
00:24:40 And that no matter how hard you fight it
00:24:44 You are going to go the way he said go
00:24:47 How many of y'all listening to me right now?
00:24:54 And how many of y'all like, alright next Sunday
00:24:56 Just, just, just
00:24:59 Amen
00:25:01 It takes patience to follow God's plan
00:25:08 Somebody say God's plan
00:25:13 God's plan
00:25:15 Some of y'all slow, you just, just
00:25:18 Y'all will get it on your way home
00:25:21 God says, listen to this
00:25:25 This is what the Lord showed me
00:25:27 I ain't a rapper but it felt like some bars when I heard it
00:25:30 It's like, God says
00:25:33 Do you love Yahweh or do you love the way?
00:25:36 Because most people love
00:25:39 To make their way
00:25:41 Than they do the God
00:25:43 Who decides which way you're going to go
00:25:46 And when God contradicts what you have in mind
00:25:49 We'll stop going to church
00:25:51 We stop listening to worship music
00:25:53 We get ratchet and think the world has an answer for us
00:25:56 Only to find yourself back talking about near the cross
00:26:01 You ain't going to be able to get away from God
00:26:09 He's so big
00:26:11 Can you, if I go to heaven
00:26:14 Thou art there
00:26:17 Listen, the Bible says, if I go to hell and make my bed
00:26:23 Thou art there
00:26:25 What is God saying?
00:26:26 You can't escape me
00:26:28 You can run to another country
00:26:34 And get there and find out I'm still in charge
00:26:37 You can run into another relationship
00:26:40 And find out I'm still in charge
00:26:43 You can, you can, you can change jobs
00:26:46 Shut down the company
00:26:47 Change your identity
00:26:48 And find out that when you get over there
00:26:51 I'm still in control
00:26:53 And then I'll make people deny you when you need their help
00:27:00 Because I'm forcing you back to me
00:27:04 Lord, help me in this place today
00:27:06 I know you told me to preach it
00:27:09 God says when you apply the definition to this situation
00:27:13 This just blew my mind
00:27:15 The Bible says that they were what?
00:27:16 Discouraged
00:27:17 Everybody say discouraged
00:27:19 Anybody ever been discouraged?
00:27:21 I thought you would say yes
00:27:24 Because when I read it, I said, yes, Lord, I've been discouraged
00:27:27 I've been discouraged
00:27:28 I've been discouraged
00:27:29 I've been discouraged
00:27:32 Dis, negative, courage
00:27:36 I've had no courage
00:27:37 I've been discouraged, God
00:27:39 And then I looked up the word discouraged in the Hebrew, Sean
00:27:42 And the word discouraged in the text is actually
00:27:45 Lord, help me
00:27:48 When I read this, it blew my mind
00:27:51 I'm discouraged
00:27:52 And I'm discouraged
00:27:53 I've been trying, I've been trying, I've been trying
00:27:55 And it ain't been working
00:27:56 I've been trying, I've been trying
00:27:57 Until nobody understands
00:27:58 I've been trying, I've been trying, I've been trying
00:27:59 I'm discouraged
00:28:00 And then I looked up the word discouraged in the Hebrew
00:28:03 And the word discouraged in the Hebrew means
00:28:06 Impatient
00:28:08 God said, you're not discouraged
00:28:13 You're impatient
00:28:15 You don't have enough faith to wait on me
00:28:17 And you keep hiding under a feeling
00:28:19 What you are is impatient
00:28:21 You won't wait on the Lord
00:28:22 So you won't renew your strength
00:28:24 And because you don't renew your strength
00:28:26 You won't mount up with wings like eagles
00:28:28 And you will not run and be weary
00:28:29 And you will not walk and not faint
00:28:31 All because you're trying to hurry somebody
00:28:34 Who's in charge of time
00:28:36 Your problem is you're not discouraged
00:28:42 Your problem is you're trying to rush somebody
00:28:44 Who has eternity
00:28:46 I used to think I was discouraged
00:28:53 What you're feeling is the side effects of impatience
00:28:57 It didn't happen quick enough so you're sad
00:29:03 No, that's what happens when you don't wait on the Lord
00:29:06 You can't renew your strength
00:29:08 Talk to me somebody
00:29:09 So the reason why you can't renew your strength
00:29:11 Is because you don't want to wait on God
00:29:13 You want to cry, you want to shout
00:29:15 You want to be frustrated
00:29:16 And you expect God to deal with the snake
00:29:18 Before you learn how to trust him in the wilderness
00:29:22 God says until you learn to trust me here
00:29:25 I'm not going to take you there
00:29:27 Because the last thing I'm going to do
00:29:29 Is put somebody with no faith in the promised land
00:29:32 So you have to stay here for 40 years
00:29:43 Because you're impatient, not discouraged
00:29:46 How many of y'all are guilty of not waiting long enough on God
00:29:51 To shift that thing
00:29:53 Because you're like I've been at this for a year
00:29:55 Come on, talk to me church
00:29:59 We all in this together
00:30:01 Anybody in here
00:30:03 I've been, okay
00:30:05 I said sorry, now why they still acting dumb?
00:30:07 I've been trying to grow this business for two years
00:30:16 Ain't nobody coming, I'm about to quit
00:30:18 I've been in this marriage for six months
00:30:21 And they don't understand me, I'm done
00:30:24 I said six months, it used to be six years
00:30:30 Now it's like 30 days
00:30:32 Like if you don't understand me by Tuesday
00:30:35 God don't want us to be together
00:30:37 God says
00:30:46 Watch this
00:30:48 Without faith
00:30:50 It's what, come on Bible readers
00:30:53 It's hard to please God
00:30:56 It's difficult to please God
00:30:59 Impossible, which means every time you don't believe God
00:31:03 You disappoint God
00:31:05 God knows the way that man should take
00:31:15 He knows how long you need to be in the wilderness
00:31:21 So the wilderness can get out of you
00:31:24 And if there is one thing that God can do
00:31:31 Is outweigh you
00:31:33 Your time is limited
00:31:40 He is eternal
00:31:43 He can wait on your stubborn butt
00:31:45 And you will die and still be in the wilderness
00:31:48 How many of y'all want to get out of the wilderness?
00:31:54 I'm going to show you
00:31:57 I'm going to show you
00:31:58 Is this helping anybody?
00:32:01 Jesus said
00:32:03 You don't think you got to wait? I did
00:32:07 Watch this
00:32:10 When Jesus decided to become human
00:32:13 Did he not have the power to go directly from being a God or the God
00:32:19 To being a full fledged human being
00:32:21 Grown
00:32:24 Adam wasn't born
00:32:29 Adam was created a full grown man
00:32:31 Which means that if God is the second Adam
00:32:34 He could have also come here an adult
00:32:36 But what he wanted to show you
00:32:39 Is that he was going to wait nine months
00:32:42 Process
00:32:44 And after nine months
00:32:46 Then he was going to be born
00:32:47 And then after he was born
00:32:49 He had to wait on the Magi to come
00:32:51 And after he had to wait on them
00:32:52 He had to wait until 12
00:32:54 To get to teaching the doctors and the lawyers
00:32:56 And then he went on a hiatus for 18 years
00:32:58 And then he became 30 and had to wait three more years
00:33:01 To get his full team of disciples
00:33:03 God says I'm God and I took 33 years for my plan
00:33:08 Why should yours happen in 33 days?
00:33:11 Come on y'all
00:33:13 Come on
00:33:14 Come on church
00:33:15 I'm God
00:33:16 I have all power in heaven and in earth
00:33:18 And it still took me 33 years to get to the cross
00:33:25 And he too had to walk through the wilderness
00:33:27 And he too had to be tempted of the devil
00:33:31 And he too had to be hungry
00:33:34 And he too had to be betrayed
00:33:37 What makes you think you're the only one going through something?
00:33:41 You walking around here with your butt on your shoulders
00:33:45 Like you're the only one going through something
00:33:47 You walking around here displaying distrust in God
00:33:50 And cursing God and dying
00:33:52 Because you're the only one going through a tornado
00:33:54 You sitting next to somebody right now
00:33:56 The thunder is clapping in their life
00:33:58 They are angry, they are frustrated
00:34:00 But yet they still have a worship
00:34:02 Because they understand that you ought to be not weary and well doing
00:34:06 But you reap a harvest if you faint not
00:34:08 You don't have to walk around here with your head hung down
00:34:11 Lift up your heads, oh ye gates
00:34:13 Be ye lifted up, ye everlasting door
00:34:15 And the king of glory shall come in
00:34:23 Can I be honest with you?
00:34:25 I know you have a right to be mad
00:34:27 But you don't have a right to be mad long
00:34:29 Come here Paul, the Bible says
00:34:33 Be angry and sin not
00:34:35 Don't let the sun go down on your anger
00:34:37 Which means God says
00:34:39 I'll give you to about 515 to have an attitude
00:34:42 But by the time it starts getting dark
00:34:45 You need to find out who you need to be apologizing to
00:34:47 You need to be finding out how to get yourself together
00:34:50 So you can have joy, unspeakable joy
00:34:54 But we so stubborn
00:35:03 I ain't saying sorry to nobody
00:35:09 I ain't even did nothing
00:35:12 They owe me apology
00:35:14 You know you mad when you start cutting words in half
00:35:17 They owe me apology
00:35:20 It was supposed to be 11 to 13 days
00:35:25 But because they are stubborn
00:35:29 And they wouldn't hear from God
00:35:31 They lost children in the wilderness
00:35:33 A lot can happen in 40 years
00:35:37 They are so stubborn
00:35:39 They are losing their name and identity in the wilderness
00:35:41 By the time they show up
00:35:43 Nobody has heard from them in 40 years
00:35:45 Nobody even knows who they are
00:35:48 Because you have an appointment in 11 days
00:35:52 If you show up in 40 years
00:35:54 They will not know who you are
00:35:56 40 years
00:36:01 A detour they did not have to endure
00:36:06 Only because they could not fix the language barrier between them and God
00:36:12 You know God don't speak complaint
00:36:14 I just told you how he wired you
00:36:20 He made you in his image and after his likeness
00:36:23 So since God doesn't speak complaint and negativity
00:36:26 He wired you not to
00:36:28 So whenever you speak negatively
00:36:30 You miss God because he doesn't understand that language
00:36:32 But he does understand praise
00:36:35 He understands joy
00:36:37 He understands meek
00:36:39 He understands long suffering
00:36:41 So in order to get God's attention
00:36:44 And get him to respond
00:36:46 You have to speak his language as opposed to trying to get him to speak yours
00:36:50 Help me in this church Lord
00:36:55 God says
00:36:57 I put the detour in your life
00:37:01 And I made sure that it was hot
00:37:06 And dry
00:37:10 No water
00:37:12 No food
00:37:14 No relationships
00:37:17 You'll lose friends in the wilderness
00:37:19 He says
00:37:23 But tell the people
00:37:25 Anytime I send them through a wilderness
00:37:28 It's because I have more territory for them
00:37:32 Anytime
00:37:38 It looks empty
00:37:40 It's because God has more
00:37:42 He dries it up
00:37:48 So he can fill it
00:37:50 He pours it out
00:37:55 So he can pour it in
00:37:57 He doesn't want anybody else to be your supplier
00:38:03 He wants to be your sole source
00:38:07 And if it means that he has to empty you of everything
00:38:10 Until you fall down and say
00:38:12 God I finally get it
00:38:15 How many of y'all ever had a stubborn child?
00:38:20 I grew up in the days
00:38:27 Where kids used to get whoopings
00:38:29 Y'all remember that?
00:38:31 And it was the time like
00:38:33 Mom said oh okay
00:38:34 Now you knew you was gonna get whoopings
00:38:35 She'd be like I'll see you when we get home
00:38:37 Oh Lord Jesus
00:38:38 I'd rather get my whooping now
00:38:40 The when we get home whooping is not one that you want
00:38:44 The when you get home whooping is the one you think you done got away
00:38:47 You in the shower la-di-da-di-da
00:38:49 La-di-da-di-da
00:38:51 And here come the shower curtain
00:38:52 Did not tell you!
00:38:54 And ain't no whooping worse than when they talk to you
00:38:56 When they doing it
00:38:57 Anybody's mama ever gave them a talking to when you were beaten?
00:39:04 Didn't I tell you not to talk in church
00:39:07 Didn't I tell you not to go to sleep
00:39:09 I'ma beat you until I get tired
00:39:11 You gonna get sick of me knocking you upside the head
00:39:13 Until
00:39:14 They don't spank kids no more
00:39:21 They be like Johnny go in the corner
00:39:23 You're not gonna be able to get any brussels sprouts
00:39:24 And you can't play your PlayStation
00:39:26 Now go to bed
00:39:27 They ready to die cause they can't play their PlayStation
00:39:30 (Laughter)
00:39:32 Woo Lord Jesus
00:39:39 God says I have a right to do what I want to do
00:39:47 I made you, you didn't make me
00:39:49 Don't y'all get sleepy, I'm talking
00:39:52 Watch this
00:39:55 And when they got in the wilderness
00:39:58 You read it in verse 5 the Bible says
00:39:59 And the people spake against God and against Moses
00:40:02 They spoke against God and against Moses
00:40:06 Now let's get this right
00:40:08 Lord you brought us out of Egypt
00:40:13 Moses you brought us out of Egypt
00:40:15 Out here to die
00:40:17 We ain't got no bread
00:40:21 When you hungry you're not proper
00:40:25 We ain't got no water
00:40:27 (Laughter)
00:40:29 We ain't got nothing
00:40:34 No popcorn, we don't have nothing
00:40:36 We just out here hungry and hot
00:40:39 You brought us out here
00:40:43 We finna fire you, we need another preacher
00:40:46 And verse 6 says
00:40:48 Immediately after they started complaining
00:40:51 They saw snakes
00:40:55 Mmm
00:40:57 Can I tell you
00:40:59 What you see
00:41:02 Is connected to what you speak
00:41:04 God says oh
00:41:10 Ain't no water
00:41:13 So you live 40 years with no water
00:41:16 You see people get extreme
00:41:18 When they suffer they use words like never and always
00:41:23 Ain't no water
00:41:24 What you been drinking for the last 40 years
00:41:26 Ain't no bread
00:41:28 Well what have you been eating
00:41:30 Trauma will change your perspective
00:41:32 And make you think you're living a reality that you're not
00:41:35 God says oh ok
00:41:40 I ain't gave you no water
00:41:41 I haven't give you any bread
00:41:43 Try these snakes for dinner
00:41:45 And the Bible says snakes just start popping up
00:41:48 Out of nowhere
00:41:50 2-3 million people in the wilderness
00:41:52 Everybody getting bit
00:41:54 Now this is the part of the story
00:41:58 That blew my mind
00:42:00 Moses is like
00:42:03 I have been praying for y'all
00:42:05 Now y'all remember Moses wasn't a slave like them
00:42:08 Moses was in Pharaoh's house
00:42:10 Remember Pharaoh's daughter found him and took him in the house
00:42:13 Moses was living a good life
00:42:14 But because he looked out of the window
00:42:16 And saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew
00:42:18 He gave up his position in the house
00:42:20 To be the first Martin Luther King
00:42:22 To let his people go
00:42:24 He gave up his life of palatial estate
00:42:26 To help the people
00:42:28 And the people that he helped
00:42:30 Are the ones that are complaining to him
00:42:32 And it hurts
00:42:37 It hurts real bad
00:42:39 When the people you've done the most for
00:42:41 Now I'm about to have a little testimony service here for a minute
00:42:48 But my biggest pain came from people I got started
00:42:51 And I didn't get a chance to see them finish
00:42:53 Because what happens is when you bring people out of Egypt
00:42:56 And they get a taste of Canaan
00:42:58 They forgot who helped them
00:43:00 So now Moses is like
00:43:07 I got all these scars on my back
00:43:09 And they did not come from whips
00:43:12 The scars on my back came
00:43:14 Because I got in between you and God
00:43:16 And prayed for your success
00:43:18 Is there anybody in the room and anybody online
00:43:20 That you got scars on your body that came
00:43:22 Because you wouldn't give up on somebody
00:43:24 Oh I want to talk to somebody in here today
00:43:26 I want to encourage you
00:43:28 I know you gave up your life
00:43:30 You gave up your family
00:43:32 You gave up your happiness
00:43:34 You gave up something to help somebody
00:43:36 And here it comes time to appreciate your sacrifice
00:43:39 And all you hear is complaining
00:43:45 Oh you forgot how I took the loan out to help you go back to school
00:43:48 You forgot that I watched your kids when you couldn't find a babysitter
00:43:51 And all of a sudden I ain't worth nothing
00:43:54 I was worth something when you needed something
00:43:56 And now you finally got what you want
00:43:58 You don't have time for me
00:44:00 But let me tell you something in here today
00:44:02 God is about to redeem the time
00:44:04 And God is about to put you on top
00:44:07 Even though you look like you're at the bottom
00:44:10 If I've got anybody in here who believes
00:44:12 I'm going to give you 30 seconds to give them glory
00:44:14 (Applause)
00:44:16 Complaining about what you have
00:44:29 Is the quickest way to get what you don't want
00:44:32 I wish y'all came to church to hear a real sermon
00:44:38 They had bread, they complained about it
00:44:42 They got snakes now they're complaining about it
00:44:44 Have you ever been around somebody that just can't be satisfied?
00:44:48 They're going to complain about the bread
00:44:50 They're going to complain about the snake
00:44:52 And both of it is going to be somebody else's fault
00:44:54 God says I've been giving you bread for 40 years
00:45:02 I gave you snakes because you just started complaining about the bread you had
00:45:05 Let me tell you something, I don't care how bad you think it is
00:45:08 It's better than it could be
00:45:11 You better ask somebody
00:45:13 If somebody here right now, you wouldn't survive two days in their life
00:45:17 Touch your neighbor and say I had it bad, I had it bad
00:45:22 I had it bad, I can tell you
00:45:24 You wouldn't survive what I went through
00:45:26 And it seems like every time I came out of something I went into something else
00:45:29 And it felt like every time I thought I found a friend I found a Judas
00:45:32 And it felt like every time I was about to come up somebody pulled me down
00:45:35 But I am here today with my hands lifted
00:45:37 Because by the grace of God none of it stopped me
00:45:39 I still got the victory over the venom
00:45:41 I still got the victory over death
00:45:43 I still got the victory over negative circumstances
00:45:45 I still came through the divorce
00:45:47 I still came through the mental episode
00:45:49 I still came through the bad childhood
00:45:51 I made it through the alcoholism
00:45:53 I made it through the drug addiction
00:45:55 Somebody shout I made it
00:45:57 One thing we can't do in this church for the next seven minutes
00:46:04 Is have a group of people who act like they ain't been through nothing
00:46:08 No I want you to give your testimony
00:46:10 It ain't nobody's business what you did
00:46:12 But I just want you to let them know I came through something
00:46:14 I came through something, I came through something
00:46:16 It almost took me out
00:46:18 It almost killed me
00:46:20 I almost killed somebody
00:46:22 I almost disappeared
00:46:24 I took pills and didn't want to wake up
00:46:26 But thanks be to God
00:46:28 High five, three people tell him I got the victory
00:46:33 I got the victory, I got the victory
00:46:35 I got the victory
00:46:37 I didn't think I was going to be able to raise these kids by myself
00:46:43 But I got the victory
00:46:45 I thought I was going to lose the house when he left me
00:46:47 But I got the victory
00:46:49 I thought I was going to lose my mind when it went away
00:46:51 But I got
00:46:53 And I feel stupid because my mama told me not to trust them
00:47:01 But I trusted them anyway
00:47:03 My mama always told me they were no good but I went against them
00:47:05 But thanks be to God
00:47:07 In spite of it all
00:47:09 I still got
00:47:11 Find somebody who looks like they got the victory
00:47:19 Say you too, you too
00:47:21 Anybody ever thought you was going to lose your mind?
00:47:27 I mean have you ever
00:47:31 Looked in the mirror and thought all kinds of ways to hurt yourself?
00:47:35 Refused invitations because you didn't want to be around people
00:47:43 Got to church, how you doing?
00:47:49 Highly favored, got in the car
00:47:51 Don't act like you ain't ever passed your house up
00:47:59 Anybody ever look for it?
00:48:01 Now where's my house? It's where it was when you left
00:48:03 I can tell we crazy
00:48:09 Running around talking about girl I'm looking for my phone
00:48:11 I don't even know where my phone at
00:48:13 Jerry where my phone at?
00:48:15 You own it
00:48:17 Somebody said mine just gone
00:48:25 Running around the house looking for your glasses
00:48:27 And they on top of your head
00:48:29 Just mine just gone
00:48:31 Now you're here taking vitamins
00:48:39 Talking about I'm trying to get my memory back
00:48:41 No you need to stop being impatient
00:48:43 You're in the wilderness
00:48:51 Complaining
00:48:53 Complaining
00:49:01 And you got it good
00:49:03 It ain't what you want
00:49:05 But man let me tell you it can be
00:49:07 This is going to make me get grateful
00:49:09 It ain't what it could be
00:49:11 But it ain't as bad as it should be
00:49:13 It could have been me outdoors
00:49:15 With no food and no clothes
00:49:17 Could have been just another number
00:49:19 But it didn't see fit
00:49:21 To let none of these things be
00:49:23 And every day by his power
00:49:25 He keeps on keeping me
00:49:27 And I ought to find 500 grateful people
00:49:29 To say I want to say thank you Lord
00:49:31 For all he's done
00:49:33 Oh God
00:49:35 Touch somebody and say I'm grateful
00:49:39 I'm grateful
00:49:41 I'm grateful
00:49:43 I'm grateful
00:49:45 I'm grateful
00:49:47 I'm grateful
00:49:49 I'm grateful
00:49:51 I'm grateful
00:49:53 I'm grateful
00:49:55 Just want you to look at your neighbor
00:50:09 They got the scars to prove it
00:50:11 See you see that scar
00:50:15 That came from trusting
00:50:17 Somebody I shouldn't have trusted
00:50:19 You see that scar
00:50:25 That came from not
00:50:27 Adhering to wise counsel
00:50:29 You see this scar
00:50:33 That came from thinking
00:50:35 I knew better than God
00:50:37 You see this one
00:50:39 This one came from thinking
00:50:43 That my ways was his ways and his thoughts
00:50:45 Were my thoughts
00:50:47 Mama told me a hard head
00:50:49 Now y'all mama knew my mama too
00:50:51 Keep playing Ty
00:51:01 It ain't have to be this bad
00:51:05 But here's what I love about God man
00:51:11 He is not
00:51:13 Like people
00:51:15 Anybody glad that God ain't like your cousin
00:51:23 Let me say this then
00:51:29 See if you say yes on this
00:51:31 Anybody glad that God ain't like you
00:51:33 As fast as you cut people off
00:51:37 You better be glad
00:51:39 You better be glad
00:51:41 Papa Watson
00:51:47 God said
00:51:49 I love you
00:51:51 Have you ever loved somebody so much
00:51:55 That you like am I crazy
00:51:57 Something wrong with me
00:52:03 God said I just
00:52:07 Love you
00:52:09 Then I'm gonna write this thing again
00:52:11 Moses
00:52:15 Go make a brass snake
00:52:19 And put it on a wooden pole
00:52:23 So if John said that Jesus was representative
00:52:29 Of the snake
00:52:31 I love when somebody gets it early
00:52:35 And now I'm putting that snake
00:52:37 On a wooden pole
00:52:39 Are we not looking at a shadow of the resurrection
00:52:43 Because the Bible says
00:52:47 And I
00:52:49 If I be lifted up
00:52:51 From the earth
00:52:53 I'll draw
00:52:55 All men
00:52:57 Unto me
00:53:03 And wrap my mind around
00:53:05 It takes
00:53:11 A couple hours
00:53:13 To melt brass
00:53:15 Into a form where it can be shaped
00:53:19 Then he has to make the pole
00:53:25 And retrofit it
00:53:29 So that the brass will stay on the wood
00:53:31 Okay
00:53:33 I didn't take shopping school
00:53:35 But I know you can't do that in five minutes
00:53:39 I wish I could just interview somebody
00:53:43 And say how long do you think it would take
00:53:45 To melt brass
00:53:47 To pour it into a cast
00:53:49 And then let it cool down
00:53:51 So that you can touch it
00:53:53 Or so that it wouldn't burn through the wood
00:53:57 Are we not talking about hours
00:53:59 If not days
00:54:01 Okay we can all agree
00:54:05 Then my question is
00:54:07 How are they still alive
00:54:09 Because most snake bites can kill you in 20 minutes
00:54:13 So what God does
00:54:17 Is after he lets them get bit by the snake
00:54:19 Then he steps in and says
00:54:23 Venom hold on
00:54:27 He stops the venom
00:54:29 Before it gets into the blood stream
00:54:31 And he says
00:54:33 Anybody who looks at the snake
00:54:35 I'll deal with the venom
00:54:37 And the bible says that every man
00:54:41 Who looked lived
00:54:43 Touch somebody say look and live
00:54:47 Look and live
00:54:49 Look and live
00:54:51 Look and live
00:54:53 Look and live
00:54:55 If you look you will live
00:54:57 If you lift your head up you will live
00:54:59 If you get your head out of the dirt you will live
00:55:01 If you look to the hills from which cometh your help
00:55:03 You will live
00:55:05 Lift up your head you will look and
00:55:07 Live
00:55:09 God gives them the victory over the venom
00:55:15 Tells the venom
00:55:19 You can't have this one because they looked on me
00:55:21 And he holds back the venom
00:55:23 Until Moses finishes making the snake
00:55:25 And every man who looked lived
00:55:27 And every man who did not
00:55:29 He died
00:55:31 Where are you looking
00:55:37 To whom
00:55:39 To whom
00:55:41 To whom
00:55:43 To whom
00:55:45 To whom
00:55:47 To whom
00:55:49 To whom
00:55:51 Are you looking
00:55:53 Because I promise you he ain't down here
00:55:57 Sulking ain't going to get it
00:56:07 Moping
00:56:17 If you look
00:56:19 You'll live
00:56:23 Do you remember when Paul was
00:56:31 Bitten by the snake
00:56:33 Trying to help the people
00:56:35 Of Lystra
00:56:37 The Bible says
00:56:39 That when the snake bit him
00:56:41 You got it
00:56:43 He read it
00:56:45 The Bible says Paul said
00:56:47 Shake it off
00:56:51 Do me a favor
00:56:55 Find somebody and just tell them
00:56:57 I know they bit you but
00:56:59 Shake it off
00:57:03 I don't care what song
00:57:05 You hear in your head right now
00:57:07 Just find somebody
00:57:11 And if they won't do it
00:57:13 I want you to grab them like this
00:57:15 Tell them I'll shake you
00:57:17 If you can't shake yourself
00:57:19 You got to get those snakes off of you
00:57:21 That venom can't hurt you
00:57:23 That lie can't hurt you
00:57:25 That rumor won't do anything to you
00:57:27 God says I gave you the victory
00:57:29 Over the venom
00:57:35 Stop giving your snakes air time
00:57:39 I don't mention my snakes
00:57:41 I just use them
00:57:47 Jesus used the snake
00:57:53 To get to the cross
00:57:55 You've already got the victory
00:57:57 Over the venom
00:57:59 That's the miracle
00:58:01 Is that even when they
00:58:03 See you
00:58:05 They don't see you
00:58:07 Is that even when
00:58:09 They stick their fangs in you
00:58:11 They are on assignment
00:58:13 For your behalf
00:58:15 I want you to hear me brothers
00:58:19 No matter how hard this is
00:58:21 For you to conceive
00:58:23 Very rarely in your life
00:58:27 Will you get to the next level
00:58:29 Because of a friend
00:58:35 I'm telling you
00:58:37 Every snake that ever bit you
00:58:39 Told somebody about you
00:58:43 And that
00:58:47 Is how your greatness spreads
00:58:49 Because snakes
00:58:51 Have to pretend like they like you
00:58:53 In order to get close enough to you
00:58:57 And then they have to go report what they said
00:58:59 But here's the problem
00:59:03 When the people they told
00:59:05 Actually get a chance to experience you
00:59:07 They will find out
00:59:11 What they said wasn't true
00:59:13 And that's when we find out
00:59:15 They were a snake
00:59:17 You have to leave your snakes
00:59:23 Alive long enough
00:59:25 So you can get to the cross
00:59:27 You have to leave the cross
00:59:29 You already have the victory
00:59:37 Do you know that?
00:59:41 Or do you just hear me saying it?
00:59:43 I'm serious, I'm asking you a question
00:59:47 Do you know that?
00:59:49 Or are you just in church standing up like
00:59:51 Okay he said it, maybe, maybe not
00:59:53 I'm serious
00:59:55 I'm serious
00:59:57 A thousand will fall at your right hand
00:59:59 Ten thousand at your side
01:00:03 But not one of them snakes
01:00:05 Shall come nigh you
01:00:09 And if they do
01:00:13 If they do bite you
01:00:15 You will look
01:00:17 And live
01:00:19 Amen
01:00:21 Amen
01:00:23 Amen
01:00:25 Somebody shout I will live
01:00:27 Say it again I will live
01:00:29 Say it again I will live
01:00:31 And not die
01:00:33 If you believe it I want you to put a live praise in this house
01:00:35 I'm alive
01:00:41 I'm alive
01:00:43 I'm alive
01:00:47 I'm alive
01:00:49 And I thought I was going to die
01:00:51 I'm alive and it felt like I was dead
01:00:53 I'm alive and I didn't want to live
01:00:55 But God said I'm not done with you
01:00:57 And let me tell you what I know for sure
01:01:01 God always ends
01:01:03 And well done
01:01:05 So if all ain't well it's because God ain't done
01:01:07 You got to wait on the Lord
01:01:09 And they that wait on the Lord
01:01:11 Shall renew their strength they will mount up
01:01:13 (Applause)
01:01:15 Somebody get above their circumstance
01:01:21 Come on get above those haters
01:01:23 Get above it
01:01:25 Get above it
01:01:27 Get above it
01:01:29 Why does the Bible say they will mount up with wings like eagles
01:01:37 Because eagles get to a place
01:01:41 Where they no longer have to flap
01:01:43 Eagles do something called soar
01:01:47 Everybody put your wings out
01:01:49 Tell your neighbor I'm an eagle
01:01:53 I don't fly with other birds
01:01:57 You can't get up here
01:02:01 Then we ain't supposed to fly together
01:02:05 I soar
01:02:07 I soar
01:02:09 Do you remember
01:02:19 How many of you all are old enough to remember a preacher
01:02:21 Named C.L. Franklin
01:02:23 I didn't figure a lot of you are
01:02:27 C.L. Franklin is Aretha Franklin's father
01:02:29 He was once known
01:02:33 To be one of the greatest preachers
01:02:35 In the country
01:02:37 And his most famous sermon
01:02:39 Was called
01:02:41 When the eagle stirs her nest
01:02:43 You can still find it
01:02:45 Recorded right now
01:02:47 You can probably go on Google
01:02:49 And find it
01:02:51 Now if you ain't grew up in that old hoop and back this era
01:02:53 You ain't gonna like it but boy that joker was rough
01:02:55 And he talks about
01:02:59 How when the mother eagle
01:03:03 Mother Watson
01:03:05 She will have her
01:03:07 Little eaglets in the nest
01:03:09 You got it it's a fascinating story
01:03:11 So what the mother eagle does
01:03:13 Is she builds her nest
01:03:15 And she puts thorns
01:03:17 In the bottom of the nest
01:03:19 And then she gets in it
01:03:21 And the bible says that she will
01:03:23 Shake her wings off
01:03:25 And she'll put that like a down pillow
01:03:27 And then she'll
01:03:29 Have her
01:03:31 Babies on top of the feathers
01:03:33 Cause when the baby is new
01:03:35 It's only about an ounce
01:03:37 It can stay on top of the feathers
01:03:39 But when the
01:03:41 Babies start to grow
01:03:43 And get heavy
01:03:45 It starts to sink
01:03:49 And the thorns that were in the
01:03:51 Bottom of the nest
01:03:53 Start to poke
01:03:55 The eaglet and the eaglet starts to get
01:03:57 Uncomfortable
01:03:59 Uncomfortable
01:04:01 An eagle is made to fly
01:04:03 Not to be in a nest its whole life
01:04:05 And so what happens
01:04:07 Is when
01:04:09 The eagles refuse to fly
01:04:11 The mother
01:04:13 Stirs her nest and throws
01:04:15 All of her feathers out
01:04:17 And the only thing that's left
01:04:19 Is the thorns
01:04:21 And the
01:04:23 Eaglet has but two options
01:04:25 To die
01:04:27 From the puncture of the thorns
01:04:29 Or to jump
01:04:35 And learn to fly
01:04:37 Some of you all like pain too much
01:04:41 And you brag about how high
01:04:49 Your pain tolerance is
01:04:51 I ain't trying to hurt
01:04:55 But I will learn
01:04:57 To fly
01:05:01 I want you to use your wings
01:05:03 And not your complaints
01:05:05 Get above the circumstance
01:05:11 Get to a level where your enemies
01:05:15 Can't reach
01:05:17 And you won't even know you have them
01:05:19 (applause)
01:05:21 People come to me all the time and say
01:05:27 Did you hear what such and such said
01:05:29 I said no I don't live that low
01:05:31 Did you hear what such and such said
01:05:35 On such and such I don't follow that crap
01:05:37 I keep my mind up here
01:05:41 With people who think up here
01:05:43 So that we can win up
01:05:45 Here
01:05:47 (applause)
01:05:49 You can't expect
01:05:51 To stay clean when you keep visiting the mud
01:05:53 I don't visit
01:05:57 And when it's around me
01:05:59 I shut down
01:06:01 I close my mind off
01:06:03 I start thinking about other things
01:06:05 Because I know who I am
01:06:07 I'm obsessive
01:06:09 If I get a hold of it I'll try to solve it
01:06:11 I'll think it through and it'll bring me down
01:06:13 So I close it off
01:06:15 (applause)
01:06:17 You have the victory over cancer
01:06:19 You have the victory
01:06:23 Over surgery
01:06:25 You have the victory
01:06:27 Over generational curses
01:06:29 You have the victory over negativity
01:06:33 Do me a favor
01:06:37 Can you just hug your neighbor
01:06:39 And I mean a sincerely
01:06:41 Tight hug
01:06:43 Hug and tell him
01:06:45 You have the victory
01:06:47 Ain't nobody gonna hug you
01:06:51 Come here, I'll hug you, they ain't hug you
01:06:53 Y'all left him out
01:06:59 He was hugged first, I missed it
01:07:01 Y'all hug KP, hug KP
01:07:03 Did you get a hug?
01:07:05 I'ma hug you man
01:07:07 (laughter)
01:07:09 Stand on your feet
01:07:17 Online and in this place
01:07:21 Breathe in
01:07:23 Breathe out
01:07:25 Breathe in
01:07:29 Breathe out
01:07:31 Open up your mouth and shout
01:07:35 I've got the victory
01:07:37 (crowd) I've got the victory
01:07:39 (applause)
01:07:41 When I was
01:07:53 21 years old
01:07:55 I started a church
01:07:59 In college
01:08:01 And I just recently
01:08:03 Found this
01:08:05 It's in the garage, I found a picture
01:08:07 Of a day
01:08:09 Where I had basketball
01:08:11 Practice and taught Sunday school
01:08:13 On the same day
01:08:15 The newspaper covered it
01:08:17 And I looked at myself
01:08:19 In one picture I was going up
01:08:21 Dunking cause I had it like that
01:08:23 It was like that
01:08:25 I'm just being honest, it was like that
01:08:27 It ain't no more but it was
01:08:29 It was
01:08:31 And in the next
01:08:33 Picture it had me in the gray
01:08:35 Suit I had my vest on because
01:08:37 If y'all went to church
01:08:39 The preacher never taught his Sunday school in his suit jacket
01:08:41 He just taught it in his shirt and vest
01:08:43 And he put his suit jacket on for the sermon
01:08:45 So I was teaching
01:08:47 In my vest and my, it was from back rack
01:08:49 Anybody remember the store back rack back in the day?
01:08:51 It was a gray pinstripe suit
01:08:53 And I'm looking at myself at 20 years old
01:08:59 I didn't even know
01:09:01 That God was developing me
01:09:03 I was in the building teaching Sunday school
01:09:07 That was 125 years old
01:09:09 I was 20
01:09:11 The building was 105 years older than me
01:09:13 I had 125
01:09:17 Members at that time and I remember just
01:09:19 Teaching these and no matter
01:09:21 How hard I preached
01:09:23 It was like one or two
01:09:25 People would join but never like
01:09:27 Here I didn't know
01:09:29 That I was in my training season
01:09:31 I had no idea that I was
01:09:35 Going to meet you and you were going to meet me
01:09:37 I didn't know Houston was in my future
01:09:39 I knew that I wanted something big but I didn't
01:09:41 I didn't know how I was going to get there
01:09:43 Nobody held my hand and showed me how to get there
01:09:45 Nobody endowed me with a check
01:09:47 Nobody showed me the ropes, nobody invested in me
01:09:49 I was just walking out there just trying to figure it out
01:09:51 My mama was my pastor
01:09:55 I was asking my mama bible questions
01:09:57 I remember she brought me a Matthew Henry commentary
01:09:59 And I was in there writing my sermons
01:10:01 This is back when you were writing by hand
01:10:03 And highlighted
01:10:05 I remember traveling to preach at 16 years old
01:10:07 In Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Salem church
01:10:09 Pastor McAfee bought me
01:10:11 And I remember man they took an offering
01:10:13 The church was this size when I was 16
01:10:15 They took an offering and gave me
01:10:17 $500 cash for preaching
01:10:19 I thought I had made it
01:10:21 I had a duffel bag
01:10:23 They took that offering
01:10:25 And y'all remember
01:10:27 If you've been in church you're going to remember this statement
01:10:29 They said
01:10:31 We can't pay for the gospel
01:10:33 But we can give you something
01:10:35 To get something to eat with
01:10:37 And they put that money in my bag
01:10:39 And I thought I was rich
01:10:41 I went on the plane
01:10:43 And I wrapped the bag all around my arm
01:10:45 And I slept all the way back to Gary, Indiana
01:10:47 Thinking somebody was going to steal my money
01:10:49 $500
01:10:51 Up until that point
01:10:55 That was the most money I had ever seen in my life
01:10:57 I didn't know
01:11:05 I didn't know
01:11:07 But I also didn't complain about where I was
01:11:11 I sincerely believe if I was ungrateful
01:11:17 For where I was
01:11:19 Be thou faithful over a few things
01:11:21 And then one day
01:11:29 You'll wake up
01:11:31 And you'll be worshipping in Humble
01:11:33 And in Cypress
01:11:35 And in Pearland
01:11:37 And in Southwest Aleph
01:11:39 With 10,000 people watching live
01:11:41 On right now
01:11:43 And another one
01:11:45 On right now
01:11:47 And another million and a half who will watch this message
01:11:49 Over the next 30 days
01:11:51 If I had to build a building that was large enough
01:11:55 To fit all of the people who watched us in
01:11:57 We'd have to rent Reliant every Sunday
01:11:59 I did not know
01:12:05 That this was in that
01:12:07 But I also didn't complain about that
01:12:13 I did that like it was this
01:12:15 Here's my last thought for you today
01:12:25 Be grateful
01:12:27 Be grateful
01:12:33 Be grateful
01:12:37 Spirit of the Living God, thank you that
01:12:41 You spoke to us today by the way
01:12:43 Thank you that
01:12:47 You have not left us with no hope
01:12:49 Thank you that we can trust you
01:12:53 Even when we cannot trace you
01:12:55 Thank you that you've given us another chance
01:12:59 And if we look
01:13:01 We can live
01:13:03 I pray God that you would put
01:13:07 Another spirit in us
01:13:09 One that would make us
01:13:11 Magnify your name even when our circumstances
01:13:13 Are shrinking
01:13:15 Give us the courage
01:13:19 To shake it off
01:13:21 In Jesus name we pray
01:13:23 All of the victorious saints
01:13:25 Make some noise in this place today
01:13:27 If you're in this place today
01:13:35 (whooshing)