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00:00 I'm just super hype. I got my son Rafael on the camera man. Just left Birmingham, Alabama
00:05 The one-night stand to it thousands of people came singles as well as married were delivered help set free on top of that
00:14 Two beautiful grandchildren born in the last 60 or so days two beautiful healthy grandchildren
00:20 The time is now I'm dealing with a teaching today called
00:24 What's wrong with right now? Dr. King said we're now confronted with the fact that tomorrow is today
00:30 We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now for somebody watching this your moment. You need Christ today
00:37 You can handle that marriage stuff today come out of that wrong relationship today. My question is why wait what's wrong?
00:44 With right now. I'm going to preach
00:47 I was uh
00:53 Chilling yesterday and I get a phone call and I found out that gospel royalty
00:58 Was in the city and told me that he's here to sing for Tricey for dr
01:04 King day and tickets sold out all that good stuff and then and then his assistant said this whatever city he's in he goes church
01:11 He don't just wait for the concert. I said that come from old-school Papa whining's I
01:18 got to meet the gospel royal family in the house and
01:23 What's this
01:25 His assistant told me he's just here to have church. He's not trying to do nothing
01:30 I told him in the back if you just sing a verse if I need me, I might kiss you on the head. Amen
01:35 But if he doesn't feel like it, I just wanted to say hi. Listen, he's a legend and you guys know I'm not starstruck
01:41 I don't just let people up here because they famous. I really love the wine his family
01:46 I preached I
01:51 Preached for his brother Marvin in Detroit his sister CC. Let me be a part of her big women's conference
01:56 I spoke for that
01:57 Everybody loved mama whinings and come on everybody
02:00 And so I just said to myself and then his assistant said don't worry. We don't catch your uber
02:05 I said not to the world church, you know
02:07 We sent the Sprinter to pick that brother up like he was the king of Cleveland. Amen. And so
02:13 This is our first time really formally meeting, but I just want him to come up and just say hi
02:18 He's gospel royalty if you young and don't know his music you just do young
02:22 All right, which I'll go crazy for BB. Why does come on up and say hi?
02:27 Just come say hi whatever you want to do. Oh y'all can do better than that y'all know who this is
02:35 Praise the Lord
02:44 Praise the Lord pastor
02:48 Um
02:49 First I give honor to God who is oh
02:52 My my everything he is my everything. He is my shield
02:57 he's the reason why I live and
03:00 I woke up this morning and
03:03 I
03:05 Called Cindy my cousin and I told her nothing should be nine other than a child
03:11 Because it was nine degrees outside
03:14 I
03:16 Ain't been in this kind of weather past in a long
03:22 Long time. I'm from Detroit, but I've lived in the south for like 30 40 years
03:28 So I'm not used to this but God is worthy to be praised no matter what
03:34 So I came to hear the word I came to fellowship I've been blessed by
03:41 The praise team I give honor to first lady, and I just simply love the Lord
03:46 And so when I woke up this morning, and this is true. I saw it was nine degrees, and I said
03:53 And I looked up and I said I love the Lord and I won't take it back I
04:03 Love the Lord and I won't take it back. Oh
04:11 It's nine degrees, but I still love the Lord and
04:15 I won't take it back
04:19 Cuz he has been
04:22 so
04:24 Good to me
04:26 He's been so good
04:30 So good
04:37 Oh so good so very good
04:43 So good
04:46 Oh
04:50 So good. Oh
04:52 That's why I'm here because he has been
04:56 so
04:59 good
05:01 to me
05:03 Oh
05:05 When I look over my life so good
05:21 He's been so good
05:25 Oh
05:27 So good
05:31 God has been he's been so good
05:36 Oh he has been
05:40 So good
05:44 To me
05:47 Good
05:51 He walked me up to the morning he's been so good
05:56 Oh
05:58 Oh
06:00 So good
06:02 So good
06:04 So good
06:06 So good
06:08 So good
06:10 So good
06:12 So good
06:14 So good
06:16 So good
06:18 So good
06:47 Acts 8 verse 36 as they rode along they came to some water and the eunuch said look
06:54 There's some water
06:56 Why can't I be baptized? I think I'm gonna stop right there. Look there's some water. Why can't I?
07:04 Be baptized do me a favor point down your row and ask five people coming by we have question. What's wrong with right now?
07:11 What's wrong
07:15 With right now go ahead and take your seats in God's house
07:18 I would be remiss if I did not mention on this January 14th that tomorrow is dr
07:25 Martin Luther King's we celebrate dr. Life and legacy of dr. King everybody. Thank God for him. Come on
07:31 And
07:35 And a strange irony if he were alive, I really believe he would tell us please don't talk about me so much
07:41 because of his
07:43 Humility. However, I just think it demands particularly in the black ethos that we pause a moment with teenagers and why up and talk about?
07:51 The man who convicted the conscience of America? I really do feel like he's one of my heroes
07:56 Most of us seminarians particularly black preachers who went to seminary most of us fell in love with dr
08:02 King and sort of memorized his life because it was just so important particularly those who engaged with black
08:08 Theologians like James Cohn and Wilmore and those who talk about the gospel from an African America or I like to say now black
08:15 Perspective we know something about the timeline of dr. King. Most of us know January 14th 12 noon
08:23 501 Auburn Street in the ATL is where he was born
08:27 1944 graduates from Booker T Washington High School at 15 goes to Morehouse watch this doesn't go to Morehouse at
08:36 18 graduates from Morehouse at 18 from there goes on to Crozier to get his
08:42 MDiv and from there in between that and meeting cute Coretta in 53
08:47 He goes to Boston University in 51 to pursue his PhD following the work of Paul Tillich
08:53 It is in 53 that he hooks up with cute Coretta 55 is the Kairos collision
08:58 That's when he takes over Dexter also becomes the head of the SC LC Southern Leadership Conference
09:04 And it's from there. We now get the civil rights movement
09:08 We know it is in 63 that he leads the March on Washington 64 the Civil Rights Act
09:13 It is in 65 the Voting Rights Act 66
09:18 He moves in the hood in Chicago so he can identify with those on the margins first brother on the time
09:24 cover of Time Magazine then Nobel Peace Prize by
09:29 68 he's gone at 39 having done more than people at 99
09:35 And so I do think is worth stopping every year at least to say thank you. Dr.
09:39 King for convicting the conscience of America, it's amazing because he becomes
09:44 the first president of the
09:48 SCLC and now there are brackets of that in every major city and tomorrow
09:54 The SCLC Cleveland branch has called me to be the pastor of the year. Amen
10:00 praise God
10:03 They made me the pastor of the year. I don't know. I think it's on screen. I don't know what happened, but I
10:08 Finally made it. Amen. I think we have that upset praise God. Amen, and so
10:13 and so
10:16 I'll be there tomorrow and I'm not just saying that you don't have to come
10:20 I don't think my kids want to come praise God. Amen, but I will be at a great Abyssinia Baptist Church at 12 noon
10:27 They're making me pastor the year. They asked me to do a few words to speak after the service
10:32 Or before the service is complete. So there's a reason I said that because it's that same. Dr.
10:38 King because believe it or not it ties together because it's that same
10:42 Dr. King to me and one of his most famous quotes who says now we we are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is
10:49 Today we are confronted with the fierce urgency of now
10:55 We're now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are
11:00 We are we are faced and confronted look at me with the fierce urgency of now
11:07 There's something about now
11:10 You're not promised tomorrow and yesterday is gone. All you really have is right now
11:17 So the question that makes asking is why not now?
11:20 Whatever God is putting on your heart to get done. Why not accomplish it now?
11:26 You're not promised tomorrow and yesterday is gone in this particular acts text
11:32 You'll love you got your Bible's open got your phone open
11:34 Look at it now look at Acts 8 verse 26
11:36 It starts by saying later God's angel spoke to Philip and said at noon today
11:40 I want you to walk over to that desolate road that goes from Jerusalem down to Gaza
11:46 The Bible says the angel of the Lord don't sleep on that Philip was Philip. He's really newly converted but on fire
11:52 He's now preaching and delivering the gospel
11:55 evangelizing doing his best to get everybody say and the Bible says take a mental note the
12:00 Angel the angel of the Lord spoke to him and said go down to this desolate road
12:05 Take a mental note on two things go down to the desert. Remember that angel spoke to him said go down
12:12 To the desert. Okay, let's see if I'm right look at verse 27. The next verse says he got up
12:17 You missed it verse 26 says God spoke verse 27 says he got up
12:22 When God speak stop thinking
12:24 If you're sure it's the voice of God get up
12:29 If you're not sure pray on it
12:31 But when you're clear that you've heard from God so many people
12:34 Wanted to hug me after nine o'clock and tell me that this was their word
12:38 Because the Lord has been speaking to them and whenever the Lord speaks the devil tries to lift his voice louder
12:47 And tell you that wasn't God when everything in you know that it was the Lord that told you to do remember this the rest of
12:53 Your life if you please God, it doesn't matter who you displease
12:57 If you displease God, it doesn't matter who you please
13:02 If you hear from God and you're certain that is him move on it
13:08 I'm going someplace and I got a short time to get there because the Bible says you'll love this
13:13 He went down and met an Ethiopian eunuch coming down the road verse 27. He met an Ethiopian
13:19 Eunuch. Yeah, he met a black brother
13:22 Ethiopia not the same Ethiopia
13:26 Geographically that you see on the map today, but still from the same region. Don't get it twisted. Yeah black. He's from black place
13:33 Ethiopia black
13:36 Eunuch coming down the road. That's who he meets. Who does the brother work for he works for Queen Candace
13:42 I just saw Candace whether the young ladies who work in my office Candace Candace
13:46 Well Candace was not a name Candace was a title just like Pharaoh is not a name Pharaoh is a title Queen
13:54 Candace he is her treasurer. He's in charge of finance for the whole country. The brother is a baller
14:00 He is black and wealthy
14:03 The brother has a whole lot going on why can this be to Candace Candace Queen Candace just for people who like the thing?
14:10 Queen Candace is a title given to the King's mother because in this kind of crazy religion
14:16 They thought that the King boy was too important to handle legal and state affairs
14:22 so his mom would do that because they would have worship of him like he was God and
14:26 So Candace Queen Candace is in charge of sort of running things this brother works for Queen Candace
14:34 Now here he is in Jerusalem
14:36 I want you to catch this because your Bible says look at it with me
14:39 The Bible says the Bible says he got up and went he met an Ethiopian eunuch coming down the road
14:43 The eunuch had been on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and was returning to Ethiopia where he was minister in charge of all the finances
14:50 Of Candace Queen of the Ethiopians. Here's my question if he got so much money. What are you looking for?
14:57 If he has position and he paid why is he on a pilgrimage?
15:02 If he has position and he's paid
15:05 Why is he on a pilgrimage because there's a place in your heart that money can't feel
15:09 There's a place in your heart that no man can feel
15:13 Yeah, they had the traffic backed up. They needed to share then the police in Birmingham. I've never seen nothing like that
15:21 It was crazy trying to get in the building
15:23 They all couldn't even fit and I'm looking at all these single people coming from all over Birmingham, Alabama
15:28 Because all of them many of them needed to hear that can't no man feel you
15:35 Yeah, and that singleness is not some kind of relational purgatory where you were waiting you were waiting a higher ascension into marriage girl, please
15:43 You better praise him when you buy yourself
15:46 You better praise him with your wife without your wife. I wish I had some married people and some single people
15:53 Let's go old school hit somebody say can't nobody go ahead
15:56 Do me like Jesus is there anybody that has lived long enough to know that there is greatness?
16:02 I told the singles don't be contradictory. Some people think they teach in the single
16:07 So they got a hate on marriage to make singles feel better
16:09 No, I'm 26 years in the game. I wouldn't trade being married to that cute girl over there
16:14 Watch this marriage is not better than being single and single not better than being married
16:19 It's whatever God has you the most important thing is. How are you and Jesus doing?
16:24 This brother is paid this brother has position but yet this brother look at me is on a pilgrimage
16:32 He is searching for something because there is a void
16:35 I think I couldn't get on that plane fast enough yesterday and get back to my cold city
16:40 Because I had to come back and find out who's looking for something
16:43 It's the top of the year. You heard me said I didn't even preach last Sunday
16:48 I just stood up and said if you came on the first Sunday of the year because you looking for something bum rush to show
16:53 People came by the dozens running down to the altar and I hadn't even preached yet
16:58 Somebody woke up last Sunday and said it's 2024. I got to get myself together. I need more than what I got
17:04 I need the peace of God there even believers in this room. I'm not just talking to people from the streets
17:09 I'm talking to elders
17:10 There are people in this church who know there's something more in 24 a place you got to get somebody is searching for something
17:18 God has a word for you today. Look at the text
17:21 Forget me everybody because the Bible says in verse 28 on the way home
17:25 He was sitting in the chariot reading from the book of Isaiah
17:29 The prophet wait a minute. There's an African brother in a boss Bentley chariot
17:35 And he's paid his his outfit is
17:41 Probably much more than Phillips life savings. The brother is no doubt blinged out
17:47 This is a this is a brother watch this and receive it who's walking and black wealth
17:53 I
17:55'm sorry, y'all didn't say a man
17:57 I'm sorry, they tripping in the sanctuary
18:00 Let me talk to people virtually if you're not too stuck up look at somebody and say I want to be saved and paid go
18:04 ahead tell somebody
18:06 That's the wrong person. They didn't say anything. Amen. This brother has black wealth. This brother is in a chariot the Bible says
18:14 that the Holy Spirit
18:17 Said to Philip go over and walk along the carriage. I told you to take a mental note five minutes ago
18:24 What was that mental note that the angel of the Lord?
18:26 So two people I like a smart class. It's amazing again how we shout on ignorance and sit on substance
18:33 this is substance right here first the angel of the Lord told him go over there and
18:39 Go down to the desert dry place mental note go down to the dry place go down to the road
18:46 Let's travel. Thank you Robert Frost a road that not many people take no go down to a dry place
18:52 Didn't nobody go down that road because it was deserted desert desert
18:57 You're walking get thirsty fool around and die no water supply
19:01 No one went down that road and yet that's the road God tells him to go down
19:06 I don't know who I'm talking to but God is sending somebody down a road. The rest of your family hasn't been down
19:13 God is sending you to some places that don't make sense to people God is putting some stuff in your heart that the average person can't
19:20 Comprehend, but it's your obedience. That's gonna get you blessed
19:24 The Bible says the angel of the Lord somebody smart come here
19:29 But then the next verse says I read everything I read everything in the text. It's my job. It's my job
19:34 But the next verse is the Holy Spirit said to him
19:39 Okay, did nobody say nothing? Let me try it again the Bible didn't say Jesus said to him
19:43 Bible didn't say the Father said to him the Bible says the Holy Spirit first of all
19:48 Angel tells him go down to the desert
19:52 Couple verses later Holy Spirit said to him them two cool people right there praise God. Amen
19:58 I would love for angels to talk to me and then I wish I had somebody somebody gonna catch this
20:03 That now wants God to order your steps
20:08 Speak to my heart Lord y'all think this is a game
20:10 Oh, let me talk to somebody at this top of the year. Don't get the lieutenant shoes and the jacket
20:16 Don't let that fool you we just fly church, but we have very old-school values. We kind of Baptist Costco
20:22 People get it mixed up because I'm a seminary student dr. Vernon forget all that I believe in the Holy Ghost
20:30 And that's why people can't handle our church because they want to put you in a bag
20:35 Either you a word church for the pastor's seminary train
20:39 But they cold in there or it's Pentecostal where you feel the fire, but the teaching isn't that tight?
20:45 God said don't put us in no box like that. No at the word church. We're gonna be informed and inspired
20:51 Doug Bannister read it is called a word and power church
20:57 Doug Bannister a word and power church some churches you go they clap they come to the altar
21:04 He lay hands on everybody, but the word not good other churches. The word is tight, but it's the frozen chosen
21:10 I say to all of you we gonna have both in here. We are not
21:14 cessationist we are
21:17 continuous
21:20 Cessationist first Corinthian 13 even at my late service persons for the first time
21:24 I still have to be tight in my teacher. So listen to me first Corinthians 13 where there are tongues they will cease
21:30 So cessation is take that one text out of context and say there's no more speaking in tongues that has ceased
21:37 That's because they don't know it's the scatological
21:40 When Jesus come back we won't need tongues or prophecy or miracles
21:47 Because we got the real thing in front of us
21:49 But not yet
21:52 Right now we are
21:55 Continuous you should know what kind of church you go to if you go to it their churches that are cessation is good churches
22:00 They're going to heaven. I love them. They love me. They just they have a right to be wrong
22:04 They believe all the tongue stuff has stopped. There's no prophecy forget all that. No at the word church. Let's have church
22:12 We believe he's still healing
22:14 We believe he's still doing miracles and here's something deep we believe he can still talk to you
22:23 And because you under 30 don't get it twisted. You ought to ask the Lord to talk to you. Watch this some of you
22:30 I wish I had five people that believe in the Holy Ghost like me
22:33 I'm about to say something sometimes people ask you why do you believe that marriage is between a man and a woman only I can show
22:40 You in the Bible. No, you can't number one
22:41 Why do you believe that you ought to treat people a certain way not just because it's in the Bible y'all ready
22:45 Let's tear the church up the Holy Ghost told me
22:49 You know what did nobody say nothing
22:51 I guess y'all don't believe that the Holy Ghost would talk to you and tell you not to date him the same Holy Ghost that make
22:57 You shout would tell you not to turn left but turn right the same Holy Ghost that make you shout
23:02 Which tell you to leave the club because they about to shoot this whole club up
23:06 Is there anybody here that believes he still speaks? I'm sorry hit five people say the Holy Ghost told
23:14 Why you want to break up with me the Holy Ghost told me you not right the Holy Ghost told me you just try to get
23:20 In the bed with me the Holy Ghost told me you not my real friend
23:23 You talk about me when I'm not looking the Holy Ghost told me I can't trust none of y'all
23:28 Got a lot of young people at the word church
23:40 And because we strive to have this kind of atmosphere that young people are attracted to I don't want y'all to get confused
23:46 This is a Holy Ghost Church. Oh
23:48 No, no, no, no, we believe in the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost said to Philip
23:53 Let's read it from the Bible pastor. Why you doing this 2024? I want you to see the Bible. Forgive me
23:58 I want you to see the Bible the Bible says the Holy Spirit in verse 29 said to Philip go over there and walk alone
24:05 Beside that carriage go over there and walk alone beside that carriage verse 30 says running up alongside
24:12 Philip heard the eunuch reading Isaiah and asked him. Do you understand what you're reading? So broth coming down the street in his
24:20 royal Bentley
24:23 carriage chariot
24:25 Undoubtedly someone else driving him. He's sitting in the back blinged out. He's paid. Don't get mad at him. He's paid
24:30 He works for Queen Candace. He's over the Ethiopian finances of come on. That's a major position
24:36 He's on a pilgrimage sabbatical vacation, whatever it is in Jerusalem because even though he got money in position some missing
24:43 And he don't even know what he looking for. So he's reading
24:46 Probably the Septuagint version of the Eagle Eye prophets Isaiah rendering of biblical texts
24:54 He's probably reading the Pentateuch. He's not reading the Pentateuch, but he's reading the Old Testament scrobes
25:00 He's reading the Old Testament scroll part of the Septuagint version
25:02 Isaiah 53 he is despised and rejected of man a man of sorrows and I'm sorry
25:08 He's African and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him
25:13 He is despised and we esteemed him not surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrow yet
25:17 We did a steam him stricken speaking of God and afflicted, but he was wounded
25:20 For our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquity and with his stripes
25:25 We are healed all of us like sheep have gone astray
25:29 Every man is turned to his own way. Let's have church, but God has laid upon him
25:34 Let me try one more time. God has laid upon him
25:38 Everybody I went to bed with that. I shouldn't God has laid upon him
25:43 Everything I said that I shouldn't have said God has laid upon him everything I've done
25:48 Everything I've done everything I've done that I shouldn't have done. God has laid upon him. Let's have church the
25:54 iniquity of us all
25:58 All of our iniquities have been laid on him and so the Bible says that this African brother is
26:04 Reading something. He does not understand. He is despised and rejected of me. He's somewhere in Isaiah 53
26:11 Some say the lip he is despite and rejected and Philip runs alongside
26:15 I'm not making this up. It's in the Bible. The brother is reading and feel like what's up player
26:20 See if it's in the Bible I ain't making nothing up just a sermon safe
26:26 What's that brother? The Bible says run alongside the cherry. They're like just want me to run just run alongside the cherry
26:31 All right
26:33 What's that brother?
26:34 Feels my name. Listen, what you read?
26:36 You're good. You understand it. Do you know what you're reading?
26:40 The brother says
26:43 This is what tells me he's highly intelligent how can I understand unless someone instructs me
26:56 Craving instructions does not bespeak ignorance. It bespeaks intelligence
27:02 Because the intelligent people know what they don't know
27:07 Ignorant people think they know everything
27:10 Have you ever met mr. Know everything?
27:14 That don't have a job, but he know everything about everything you like. So when you gonna get a job though with your deep self
27:21 You know y'all laying there. He like yeah, see what happened. Well, you know, I knew him back in the day
27:27 Yeah, I knew LeBron when he was in Akron just talking all kind of stuff. You like but where you work though
27:31 Yeah, what what have you done with your life with your deep self?
27:35 Some of y'all laughing, you know, you slept with mr. Deep praise God just deep with no job. No nothing
27:44 No, no, no. No, it is it is knowing what you don't know
27:47 The brother says how can I know unless someone instructs me you're tired of this quote
27:54 You're tired of this quote
27:57 Immaturity hates instructions
28:00 Maturity craves them
28:03 Let me try it again
28:06 Immaturity hates instructions. I got two children who still live in the house with me
28:10 They're the school age and they don't like when I give them instructions
28:14 My grown kids call me every five minutes dad. What should I do?
28:18 You just miss it. Let me try it one more time
28:21 My school age children do this why I gotta huh?
28:25 they get grown and your phone ringing every five minutes because now maturity and
28:30 Intelligence is teaching them. You better talk to somebody who know more than you
28:38 Maturity craves the brother said how can I know I was telling the first
28:44 Service black history month is coming up pastor. You're doing a series for black history month
28:49 I'm tired of America telling me when to celebrate black history
28:52 You gonna give me the most truncated month of the year and tell me I got to squeeze in a quick four-week sermon
28:58 No, I'm starting in January
29:00 But I'm serious I tell people I'm black every Sunday
29:05 Yeah, and so I'm always cognizant of my color though
29:09 Everyone's welcome at the word and can I tell you in light of the George?
29:13 George Floyd buffoonery what our brother put his knee in his neck
29:18 Too long and took his life. That was the first time to me that the conscious of white America was totally convicted
29:25 You would have thought the photos of Emmett Till and 50 in the 50s would have done it when the mother said open the casket
29:32 So everybody can see what they did to my baby
29:35 And so there it is in Jet magazine a photo of her baby beat up and bloodied and his face all this figure
29:42 You would have thought that would have convicted the conscious of America, but it didn't quite do it
29:46 We still had Jim Crow senior and the black codes and all kind of things that went through even
29:51 Reconstruction. I don't have time to get into all that today
29:54 But for some reason George Floyd did something the life and if his family's watching
29:59 Praying for you still the life of George Floyd did something that I've never seen done
30:03 It's the first time all of white America stopped
30:05 And says I'm wrong with that
30:08 That was too much. That was the first time I seen the kind of
30:10 Reconciliation now, let's be careful because sometimes people go right back to their own corners
30:14 Yeah, once the emotionality wears off, but it was that season right during the pandemic that everybody's marching white black together
30:22 And it was during that time that I got a call and people wonder how we connected the owner of the Cleveland Browns
30:26 My phone just rings. This is Jimmy Hassam. Are you dr. Bernie? Yes
30:30 I was told that I need to talk to you about race and our city
30:34 He says I'm a blessed man as you know, he says but I want to know as a white man
30:38 Who's blessed what I don't know. I
30:41 Said not, you know, I'm gonna shoot it straight. Don't you?
30:46 Don't mess around and find out praise God. Amen
30:51 Came up here and then I fell in love came in with a yellow pad and a pin
30:56 No entourage sat in my office for two hours. I said, let's get it straight. Let's hit it
31:00 I said to me there was moments when even the owners of the NFL could have made a difference
31:05 I would have bent my knee when Cal and Kaepernick bent his knee
31:08 What's the use of having a few money if you'll never say F you?
31:11 Forget you
31:14 Y'all got real nervous praise God. Amen
31:17 Forget you. Amen. I'm saying no. No, no, no that taught me something. I don't care what you have be open for instructions
31:26 I don't care who I think I am there things he knows about business acumen that has blessed my life
31:31 I'm like, you don't have to give me nothing. Just teach me what I don't know. I'll get it myself
31:34 And can I tell you God sent some of you to bring it closer to here?
31:38 No matter how old you are you come to church each week. Give me some instructions
31:43 I could not believe thousands and thousands of singles jam that church in Birmingham this past Friday
31:49 Because they're thinking I want some instructions one brother who was a musician jumped off the keys and said I just bought three books
31:55 He says man. I never heard this in my life. I gotta go make some changes
31:59 One girl said I'm breaking up with my fiancee cuz he's cute, but he don't want Jesus. I
32:03 Said that's a that's a good breakup. I think I broke up more people than I hooked up the other night. That's okay
32:09 Instructions those of us that are married find somebody whose marriage is stronger than yours and get some instructions
32:16 Don't ever think you know too much if you're old enough to be my mother you not too old for instructions
32:21 How can I know and let somebody gives me instruction? Can I tell you why you watching me all over the world?
32:26 Can I tell you why you showed up in this cold frozen frosty morning?
32:30 Because some of you walk in every week saying God give me an instruction on how to go home better than I walk in
32:38 And I'm not gonna be up here clowning because Kings don't clown and
32:45 Clowns don't become Kings
32:49 Yeah, this many people and this is probably the smallest crowd we've had and I don't know when because it's frozen outside
32:54 And we're still almost full by because thousands of people want instructions
32:59 the brother says
33:01 How can I know?
33:03 The next verse says Philip begin to break down your love this and give him the good news. Oh y'all gonna make me shout
33:11 The Bible says Philip begin to give him the good news about Jesus one version says he began to preach the gospel one version says
33:18 He began to give him the good news. Y'all miss this a good news
33:21 The Bible says he began to give him the good news and can I tell all of you something?
33:26 When you walk in here, I'm giving you good news
33:29 Y'all ready try not to shout good news
33:32 You go in the heaven. I
33:35 Wish I had some saved people. I
33:38 Know their pastors. I know extreme apostolic extreme Pentecost. I love my apostolic brothers and Pentecostal brothers
33:47 I'm back to cost of myself. It's like if you ain't cussing them out, you ain't really preaching
33:51 If you ain't going off on them and telling them what they're not you're not preaching the real gospel
33:56 If you're preaching the real gospel
33:58 Everybody should walk out with their head between their legs if you're preaching the real gospel
34:01 Everybody should leave with a such a conviction that that kind of teaching had a lot of people hating Church
34:08 That kind of teaching had a lot of people soon as they got to college
34:12 They went crazy wild because all they were taught was God hates you and God's gonna get you if you do this you're in trouble
34:17 You do this you go in the hell all of a sudden they went to school and most of those persons are not balanced
34:23 We didn't spend our children's childhood telling them they go in the hell
34:27 We spent their childhood telling them there's consequences for your sin
34:30 But Jesus paid it all and the good news is whatever you did yesterday
34:35 You're forgiven by the blood of Jesus if you receive it
34:39 Don't you look at me like you haven't made some mistakes, but I got good news. God gave you another chance
34:46 Good news if you die tonight, you'll be in the presence of God good news
34:52 No matter how much money you got you can have more by this time next year good news
34:56 No matter how many people you've been to bed with the blood of Jesus can rest every soul time out your heart good news
35:03 Even though your children's father don't live with you
35:06 God can sing you people to make sure your child is balanced and healthy somebody ought to praise God for good news
35:12 I'm sorry. This front row is too young, but somebody 45 and over look at you never say tell me something good
35:20 Y'all don't know what that means
35:25 Good news
35:28 Good news. Good news. Look at me. Who's ever sitting here. I got good news for you
35:32 Jesus Christ paid it all
35:36 Pastor aren't we paying off the debt God told me he'll do that. Just preach about him
35:40 Good news, if you hit a day he can change your life. Oh
35:45 I'm not just talking to people who need to get saved. I'm talking to supposed to be saved people
35:50 Good news, whatever you've been dealing with in your mind. This is the year that your heart gets clear
35:56 This is the year that God speaks to your mind. This is the year young couples that your marriage goes to another level
36:03 I'm talking about what I mean
36:05 I wouldn't go to a church that didn't give me some good news and the good news of the gospel is that he paid it
36:11 All it is not that I'm perfect
36:14 It is that he's perfect and that because I came to church today with all these people here
36:19 He still sees me and he'll take me just like I am
36:23 That's good news
36:26 You know what? The only people that should still be sitting down is people that haven't done anything stupid
36:33 But if you've done something stupid like me and the Lord gave you another chance slap five people and say that's good news
36:40 That's the wrong person walk over to somebody else there I say I got some good news
36:50 I'm so say I got some good news. I got some good news. Jesus paid it all Jesus loves you
36:55 Sit down I
37:02 Didn't give nine o'clock this this the best part of my sermon right here
37:05 Y'all better catch it because I didn't give nine o'clock this because verse 35 says
37:10 the brother said
37:12 Tell me who is this prophet talking about himself or someone else Philip grabbed his chance
37:18 Philip grabbed his chance and
37:26 Using as his tax he preached
37:30 Jesus to him
37:32 Pastor what should you do better as a pastor? Look at me this year. I want to say his name more
37:37 You can be preaching about so much stuff and you get home and count the times
37:42 You said the name Jesus and sometimes you don't come up with three
37:45 I told all my spiritual sons that you're preaching about Christ, but sometimes you're not saying his name. There's power in his name
37:52 I'm talking to people that are 65. Look at me power in his name. I'm talking to young adults
37:58 I'm talking to young couples young girls that want to get married in the next three four years
38:02 Engage couples hear me and do what I'm telling you to do when life gets overwhelming
38:06 Start walking around your house and Jesus Jesus
38:10 Don't none of y'all believe this. This is too old-fashioned
38:12 I'm a loose the whole crowd dance power in that name now some of you don't believe it
38:18 But get on 480 on your way home today
38:22 Hit a sheet of ice and let that car start turning on the freeway. You're not gonna call Ghostbusters
38:29 You're gonna call the name that's above every name
38:31 Let somebody take out a gun and point it right in your face be in the foxhole in Vietnam
38:37 You're not gonna call on nobody but the name that is above every name
38:41 Can somebody help me say it five times in a row Jesus?
38:45 Jesus
38:47 There's something about that name I feel like preaching in my own church
38:58 There's power in the name of Jesus. The Bible says I'm out of time YF the Bible says
39:04 Using his chance the Bible says he grabbed his chance
39:10 He grabbed his chance. I'm out of time
39:14 You want to be careful with what I call cold evangelism
39:19 Cold evangelism is when you witness too fast
39:24 You so on fire for God you start witnessing before they trust you
39:30 You're not a bad person you're holy so somebody actually anything you need to go to heaven you need you wait wait
39:38 What's your name again?
39:40 All right, we call it cold evangelism sometime
39:44 You ask God to give you a chance
39:46 You just walk around there. Let them see Jesus for a while
39:49 How you carry yourself? I know what I'm talking about
39:52 ten years construction before I became a full-time senior pastor in
39:57 1999 I was a
40:00 full-time construction because I had to feed my children and pay for my house and so I did what I had to do and I
40:05 Would just let them see Jesus and then one day sure enough brother walked over to me. I get this all the time
40:10 They would wait like nicotine. It said nobody was looking
40:13 Some of y'all know what I'm talking about on your job
40:15 And then he walked up to me and said what's up with you? I
40:19 Said oh
40:22 You didn't gave me my chance
40:24 When somebody give you your chance
40:27 jump in
40:30 When you sense the moment? Oh, yeah, I go to the Word Church Christ changed my life. Oh, man
40:35 Listen, I was the biggest womanizer in Cleveland. Listen, don't look at me now. I had some brothers
40:40 I shouldn't have been with I didn't been some places my daughter
40:42 I don't know where her father's you name and I've done it but the Lord
40:44 So y'all not hearing me in
40:47 2024 I need you to fill this place up with people because you jumped at your chance
40:52 Stop talking about the Browns and never bring up Jesus
40:55 Yeah, stop talking about clothes and purses and Instagram ask God to lead you but when you see your chance
41:01 Jump in and say I know somebody that can change your life teenagers at school
41:08 East Tech High School, they gave me they put me in the Hall of Fame at East Tech High School
41:14 Don't clap a couple of months ago. And the best thing I heard was
41:17 Rabin doing this since we was in school. You don't have to get grown to say his name
41:22 They called me crazy back in the day, but now they see I wasn't crazy say his name
41:29 The name of Jesus tell people the gospel tell people that you've been changed
41:36 Every week all of you should bring five people. I mean watch parties in your home across the country
41:42 Tell five people I'll tell you more details
41:44 Next week on bring a friend weekend on bring a friend weekend. We'll jam this place
41:50 I won't watch parties in your house
41:51 All of you watching from five different computers taking a picture together sending it to each other sending it to us people need Jesus. Oh
41:58 I bid you goodbye
42:01 Thank you. Let me give you this last thing and I'm done. Don't you move? Nobody move. Nobody gets hurt
42:06 Then Philip started that passage told the official of good news about Jesus as they continued down the road. I'm finished
42:12 They came to a stream of water
42:14 I
42:25 Used to be slow - let me try this again. I told you to take a mental note twice
42:32 Why you shouting pastor because I know what I'm gonna say
42:36 Let me try this again. They came. Where did I tell you they were?
42:41 A stream of water I
42:49 Feel like talking to somebody that you've been in a dry place. Let's talk to somebody God told me to tell you
42:57 Let's have church God's getting ready to send the water
43:00 It's been dry financially dry relationally
43:03 You've been dry spiritually, but the water which is the type of the Holy Spirit is about to fall in your life in this place
43:10 I don't know where
43:12 Phillip then got in the chariot with the brother
43:15 Philip then took Isaiah and properly exegeted it and brought it from antiquity to modernity
43:21 Brought it to application and evangelism
43:25 He didn't went from Isaiah 53 breaking it down telling the brother the person you're reading about that Isaiah is talking about is really Jesus
43:32 Jesus has come and he's coming back and you need him and he can change your life
43:38 And the Holy Ghost told me to run along this chariot and I angel send me to help you on your pilgrimage
43:45 And to tell you it's time for a change
43:47 At that very moment. Oh, you think it's a coincidence?
43:53 Sometime you can read the Bible without reading the Bible
43:56 Because there's none of you that's been here 10 years that hasn't read this text
44:00 But you didn't read it because I never saw this to this week. How are you in a desert?
44:04 How did you take for granted that in a desert right at the perfect moment?
44:09 brother looks to the left
44:12 Phillip said, you know if you baptize in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
44:16 The Bible says he that believeth in his baptized. He didn't say the Bible because the Bible hadn't been written yet
44:20 He that believeth in his baptized shall be saved. It's at that moment that the brother looked to the left or right say
44:25 Hey
44:29 You mean like baptizing water? Yeah
44:31 There's a water right there
44:35 What's wrong
44:38 With right now I ain't got time for no new membership class. I ain't got time to meet your pastor
44:46 I ain't got time to come here to pray see all I know I came all the way from Africa and I'm looking for something
44:52 Something broken in my life and what's wrong with right now?
44:56 And I want you to catch this. I need some beer right now. Y'all better catch this. Everybody's on your feet right quick
45:02 Everybody just jump up jump up jump up jump up and can I tell you something?
45:05 I got a question. I got a question who's here for the first time raise your hand
45:09 Who's here who don't belong to the word church? I ain't just playing no games word church got 99 problems
45:15 But members ain't one God told me it's your time
45:18 If you raise your hand and you looking for a church never been baptized
45:22 Visiting here step in the nearest out and come to him right now right now right now run down just come on. Come on
45:27 Just come start coming right now. Don't let the devil stop you
45:32 This is your Sunday
45:35 Run run run run run run
45:39 Everybody come
45:43 Come on
45:45 Right now right now right now
45:47 We're gonna cut your hands right
46:05 Now
46:07 Somebody else
46:14 I said number right now
46:18 Life is good. I got my son Raphael on the camera, which makes me almost want to cry
46:34 My other son Ray just had my first grandson Ari Vernon the third
46:39 This is a now season in our lives and I'm speaking to somebody this word was for you. What's wrong?
46:45 With right now. This is not the season of procrastination. This is the season of movement. The man said baptize me now
46:53 Let's just do this. I heard what I needed to hear. Let's get it handled for some of you
46:58 This is your right now moment God made you watch today because because you need Christ today
47:04 You need a church home today connect with us connect with Christ pursue purpose. What's wrong?
47:10 With right now. See you next week