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00:00 We're still at the top of the year. I'm so excited about preaching today. My
00:04 subject, "Watch Me Walk Away." I know you thought that situation would overwhelm
00:09 me, the divorce would devastate me, that I'd never recover, but keep your eyes on
00:13 me. God's gonna speak to me, call me out of it, and watch me walk away from it.
00:21 Mark 2 verse 12, "The same man got up immediately and picked up his cop,
00:29 walked away while everyone watched. Everyone was amazed and praised God
00:35 saying, 'We have never seen anything like this. The same man picked up his cop and
00:40 walked away. The same man picked up his cop and walked away.'" Do me a favor, point
00:47 down your row at six people and tell them, "Watch me walk away." Go ahead and
00:51 tell them. I said six people, you told three, tell six people, "Watch me walk
01:00 away." Go ahead and take your seats in the Lord's house. Go ahead and take your
01:05 seats in the Lord's house. As we head toward Black History Month, somebody
01:10 asked me, "Was I doing a series on being black?" And for some reason, I just caught
01:16 an attitude this year and decided I'm black all the time. I don't know, I'm just
01:21 feeling some kind of way about that truncated month of February that we've
01:26 been given as some sort of consolation prize for chattel slavery. And we'll give
01:31 you the shortest month of the year, take a few Sundays and thank God for you
01:35 being black. To me, we should be given the longest month and that we as a people
01:41 spent the longest amount being subjugated and marginalized in a country
01:47 we did not ask to come to. So to that end, at the same time, I do not believe in
01:53 feeling sorry for myself because I'm black. I don't believe that any beautiful
01:58 white person is the reason why I'm broke. That any beautiful Latino person, any
02:03 color person has anything to do with who I am as a person, whether you be black or
02:07 white or Latino, whatever you've been through in life, whoever didn't want you,
02:13 whatever you have fought through, God has given you the ability and the power to
02:18 walk away from it. You can get up from it. And speaking of walking away, spoiler
02:24 alert, at the end of this story, this brother walks away. If you've been in
02:30 church five minutes, you already know that. If you've been in my teaching, if
02:33 you've been under my teaching, you absolutely know that. But still, I promise
02:37 you, the Lord gave me this in 2023. All entrepreneurs come here. All of you that
02:43 are visionaries, all of you that lead children or lead your families, you cannot
02:48 be in the same place they are. You need to be a year ahead. Yeah, part of
02:53 leadership and vision is you got to already be in the next season while
02:57 they're in this one. That's part of vision. That's part of vision. And so in
03:01 2023, I start asking God, "What was the word for 2024? What was I to start the
03:07 year preaching?" There's nothing like the freshness of January. More people come to
03:12 church. More people pay attention. More people go to gyms and do sign-ups even
03:17 though they end it by Easter. And so while you have people's attention, it's a time
03:21 of critical pedagogy and pursuit. Speaking of that, the Bible says in verse
03:26 1 of chapter 2, it's on the screens, watch this, I want you to hear what I'm
03:29 saying, I want you to see it in the Bible. "After a few days, Jesus returned to
03:33 Capernaum. After a few days, he returned to Capernaum and word got around that he
03:38 was back home. A crowd gathered, jamming the entrance so no one could get in or
03:44 out. He was teaching the word." You just missed it. Jesus comes back to Capernaum.
03:49 Word gets out. There's a stranger in the city, old folk told me, and he's healing.
03:55 He's healing the body and Jesus can heal the sin-sick soul. Word got out that he's
04:01 in the house and it's jammed. I like one version, that's what it says. It's jammed
04:06 in there so jammed you couldn't get to the door, you couldn't get in the door,
04:10 you couldn't get out the door. The place is absolutely jammed. What was Jesus
04:15 doing? Telling jokes? What was Jesus doing? Clowning? What was Jesus doing? Teaching
04:20 the word. And I think I want to pause pastorally and parenthetically and tell
04:25 everybody here there is power in the word. Oh, he's teaching the word. I'm not
04:31 saying the pastor shouldn't be relevant. I'm not saying the pastor shouldn't tell
04:35 an occasional joke or something that's applicable so you don't fall asleep. I
04:39 got to teach to the same people every week. I know I said this before but
04:43 imagine Dave Chappelle, as funny as he is, if he had to be funny to the same crowd
04:48 every Sunday. Imagine if the greatest singer in the world had to sing her same
04:52 hits to the same people every Sunday. So there's nothing like preaching. Honestly
04:57 there's nothing like pastoring because no comedian has to be funny every Sunday
05:00 to the same crowd. No singer, your favorite singer, couldn't sing the same
05:04 songs to you every Sunday. So a pastor has to get up in front of the same people
05:08 and talk from the same book and say it in a different way and be relevant. So
05:12 don't hate on preachers for using
05:15 analogies and trying to stay relevant so you don't fall asleep. But that said, I
05:18 tell every pastor don't stop teaching the Word. There is power in the Word. The
05:23 Bible says Jesus is teaching the Word. There's something about the Word of God
05:28 that can transform lives like nothing else. The Word of God, by the way, he's not
05:33 teaching the Bible. This is my smart class. The canonization, the canonization,
05:38 the 66 books you have, those haven't been written yet. That's hundreds of years
05:42 after the ascension of Christ do we get our first recorded copy of the canon of
05:48 scriptures. Okay, some of them included what we now call the lost books. People
05:52 ask me all the time, "Pastor, should I read the lost books of the Bible?" Lean on
05:56 somebody and say, "You haven't read the found ones." Go ahead, praise God. Yeah, read the
06:00 ones that were found first and then we'll talk about, stop laughing, that's
06:03 not important. Here's what I'm trying to tell you. He's reading probably some form
06:06 of the Pentateuch or some of the Old Testament writings, maybe Isaiah. He is
06:13 despised and rejected of man. The same thing the African eunuch was reading
06:17 last week. He's teaching the Word. He's teaching whatever they have in terms of
06:22 copies of the Old Testament scrolls. He's teaching from the Word and they are
06:28 packing the place because there's power in the Word. How many of you
06:36 show up here every Sunday and say, "God, let that man say something to me." Yeah, how
06:41 many of you got up and said, "It's cold out there but I'm going anyway because I
06:44 need a word." Yeah, I don't have time to take a weather break. Yeah, I need a word
06:49 in the summer. There's power in the Word. The Bible says he was teaching the Word
06:53 and while he's teaching the Word, the Bible says they brought, watch this, they
06:58 brought a paraplegic carried by four men. They brought a paraplegic. Some of you
07:05 remember this but keep in mind, paraplegic, four men brought a brother.
07:09 Sometime I want to preach something called the Fantastic Four because I
07:14 don't know who these brothers are but four men, I don't know the name of their
07:18 families but they deserve more, they deserve more than to be a footnote in
07:22 the corridors of history. These brothers, these four men, they brought a brother.
07:27 Four men brought a brother who is, watch this, a paraplegic. One version says, which
07:32 tells me his arms work but his legs don't. Don't forget that. His arms work
07:36 but his legs don't. Please catch this. And why are they bringing him? They are
07:41 interested in getting him to Jesus. Let me stop right here and tell you, ask God
07:46 to give you back your burden for souls. Yeah, ask God. I'm talking to elders,
07:53 present company included, all of us has been saved more than five minutes, all of
07:58 us that love the Word, church, all of us that really know Christ for ourselves,
08:01 ask God to give you back your burden for souls. Ask God. Y'all should clap right
08:08 here. Almost 200 people have been joined this church already and we just, come on,
08:15 in the early parts of the top of the year. Why? Because I ain't like my numbers
08:20 last year, offering up souls down. I said, somebody's not bringing somebody. Get up
08:26 here and preach. Pastor, I thought we trying to pay the debt. Oh God'll do that.
08:30 He said, if I be lifted up, come on, talk to me, I'll draw all men. Okay, y'all
08:35 looking at me funny. Y'all do know there's still something about the name
08:38 of Jesus that can change somebody's heart. Don't you look at me in that tone
08:42 of voice. They brought a brother. I'm begging you, I'm begging you, try not to
08:48 come here without bringing somebody. Ask God to give you evangelistic
08:53 opportunities because somebody, all paralysis ain't physical. Some paralysis
09:00 is emotional and mental. They stuck and don't know it. They got a big house but
09:06 they stuck. They think they have a good marriage but they're stuck. They need
09:09 Christ in their hearts. Your Bible says, look at your Bible, don't look at me. The
09:13 Bible says they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd. They dug a
09:17 hole. They dug a hole. They dug a hole in the roof above his head and the man came
09:24 down on the mat right in front of Jesus. They dug a hole. Some of you been here
09:29 10 years ago. I preach a sermon called tear the roof off. I don't know how old
09:33 you are. Tear the roof off. Okay, I'm sorry. Praise God. 35 and over, raise your
09:38 hand if you remember tear the roof off. Yeah, it was a good sermon for 2000.
09:41 Praise God. Amen. But I want y'all to catch this. They dug a hole. Now, do not look at
09:47 this text anachronistically. What is anachronistic? It is to impose 21st
09:53 century thought on the first century like they had iPhones, like they had
09:57 Instagram during Bible Day. They didn't. So when I say a roof, tear the roof off,
10:01 some of my contractors come at the nine o'clock service. You think about the roof
10:05 on your house. Most roofs on your house have what panels and think
10:08 tiles and you have to put them down one at a time. It's a metal roof like the one
10:12 on this church. Not so. Back then roofs were made of kind of dirt and mud. Okay,
10:18 so they dug into the roof. Catch this. They just didn't cut it or take the
10:23 tiles off. They dug into the roof. I want you to catch this. I want you to catch
10:26 this because when it comes, when it comes, when it comes to evangelism, the first
10:31 thing you got to have is concern. Yeah, you got to believe that people are still
10:37 in trouble and watching your Instagram page, can't you tell people need Jesus?
10:43 Is there anybody like me that's thinking, and I know every generation says this,
10:48 but don't stuff seem more wicked than it used to be? Don't it seem like people
10:53 more off the chain and bold? Don't it seem like women just show you everything
10:58 and brothers say anything? Is there anybody, I know I sound like the old man
11:02 get off my lawn, but is there anybody got the Holy Ghost like me that be thinking
11:07 Jesus, you better come home because I don't know where this world is going. I
11:11 don't know what's wrong. Can I tell you the difference between now and back in
11:15 the day? Now people call wrong right. Back in the day people was wrong but they
11:22 didn't try to call they right. Now people call wrong right and right wrong people
11:27 need Jesus. There needs to be a concern. I'm begging you to ask God to give you
11:34 back a burden for souls. Invite people to come see about this precious Palestinian
11:41 Jew named Jesus and don't you look at me in that tone of voice because it was
11:45 Jesus that changed your life. It was Jesus that got you out that ravaging
11:50 relationship. It was Jesus that helped you get your head on straight. It was
11:54 Jesus that helped you raise your daughter by yourself. It was Jesus that helped you
11:57 stay married when you should have lost it all. If you know it was Jesus, stand up
12:01 and sit back down and say it was Jesus.
12:05 So there needs to be, what's this, a concern but then secondly there needs to
12:14 be a confrontation. Sometimes you have to confront someone. I was thinking about
12:19 how much temerity it takes oftentimes to confront someone and say you need more
12:24 than what you got. Ask God, you'll love this, to give you
12:29 opportunities. Pastor why are you teaching this because if I don't who
12:32 will? I'm your pastor. Everyone look at me because the Lord told me don't forget
12:37 the main thing. Let the main thing be the main thing. Let the main thing be the
12:42 main thing. I'm talking to elders, I'm talking to people who've been saved
12:45 longer than I've been born. Look me in my face and tell me when is the last time
12:49 that you by yourself won somebody to Jesus. I'm gonna try this one more time.
12:55 When is the last time that you personally helped somebody go from hell
12:59 to heaven while you were standing there? You, because of you they were going to
13:04 hell five minutes ago but they received Christ or at least came to church with
13:08 you, walked to the altar because you invited them. When is the last time
13:12 somebody that was going to hell got translated to heaven because of you? Ask
13:17 God, watch this, to give you the boldness to confront. That's that's important.
13:24 Bishop Joyce says something to me 20 years ago that changed my life. He said
13:28 sometimes son you have to be willing to take a risk. What does that mean? That
13:34 means if you confront them they might cuss you out. They may tell you stay out
13:39 my business. Have you ever wanted to call somebody if you was thinking I don't know
13:42 how they gonna take it. They may they may go off on me. Sometimes you got to pray
13:46 and ask God when should you take a risk. I was on a plane yesterday I had the
13:50 first service laughing and and the church was kind enough to bring me first
13:54 class so I'm thinking I got everything set up my movie, finna eat a little dinner, all
13:58 that and lo and behold beautiful lady sitting next to me with her big crying
14:02 baby. Have you ever been on a plane and somebody's sitting next to you with a
14:06 baby you was thinking Jesus? I'm supposed to be Reverend Doctor Jesus man and the
14:13 look on my face was like oh Lord and the brother sat down acting crazy. I'm
14:22 looking like oh this gonna be long. I'm on the phone with my wife like baby a
14:25 baby just sat next to me. A baby just sat next to me. A baby just sat next to me.
14:32 She like be quiet, be quiet. Can they hear you? No baby they can't hear me. The
14:38 grandmother who was sitting across from us I guess she saw my face and switched
14:43 with her daughter and said I'll sit next to him you sit over here with my other
14:47 grandchild and sat next to me I'm so ashamed and said I know you happy now
14:51 aren't you? I was like oh no I was fine. Praise God. I'm Dr. Vernon the Word. I
14:56 pray Jesus. Jesus is wonderful. Oh no I'm fine. I was so embarrassed and the Lord
15:03 told me you were more interested in your comfort than showing Christ and I said
15:10 God if you give me another opportunity and finally she says something to me and
15:14 I said I just had a grandbaby too. What's your grandbaby's name? And eventually if you keep
15:19 talking so what do you do?
15:23 I make sure people go to heaven. Y'all just missed that. Can I get a witness
15:27 here? Ask God to give you the boldness, watch this, and opportunities. Don't do
15:36 cold evangelism. Cold evangelism is when you walk in the elevator with ten people
15:42 and say y'all saved? They like saved? Is the elevator going down? Is there some
15:51 sort of fire here? That's cold evangelism. No, ask God to give you an opportunity.
15:57 Ask God to give you an opportunity where you can confront them about the Savior.
16:01 When they say something you think to yourself this is a good time to sneak
16:06 Jesus in here. And speaking of confronting, I get in trouble sometimes
16:10 and by the way and I'm purposely going slow because this is critical to me. I do
16:16 not preach about every current event. Everything that pops up on Instagram
16:22 cannot get sermon time. Every messy thing some person does, every rumor
16:27 about some pastor or what some church shouldn't have done, all that cannot pop
16:31 up in my sermon. I'm very selective about what gets sermon time. Yeah, we're not
16:36 here for current events, we're here for Christ. And so because pastor don't
16:40 mention it don't mean I don't know about it. I cannot mention everything that hits
16:44 the news cycle for 24 hours because you'll waste precious time that you could
16:48 be teaching people about the Savior. I remember some of you do around 2009, 2010
16:55 when our then first black president announced that he was redefining
16:59 marriage and I got up the very next Sunday and said I disagree with him. And
17:03 because he black and beautiful don't mean he right. And I went viral and every
17:08 time I went viral in my life I wasn't trying to go viral. Every time I went
17:11 viral I've never tried to go viral in my life. Some people that's what they live
17:15 to do now, go viral. I've never tried to go viral, I just speak the truth in love.
17:18 And I asked the question has God changed his mind about family? And could nobody
17:24 believe I was preaching a message about a black president as a black man. But I
17:28 don't care what color you are, the color that matters is the blood of Jesus which
17:32 is red. And speaking of confronting, I just got word about some black rapper
17:39 Lil Nas. Lil Nas. Lil Nas drops the J Christ. And I guess I didn't know and
17:48 thank you YF because some of YF you know it's a trip when even young people
17:52 are saying is pastor gonna say something about that I didn't even know because
17:55 that kind of stuff is too messy for me to even know about or to watch about but
17:59 I had to look at it and come to find out Lil Nas got himself on the cross. On the
18:05 cross I think it's right behind me on the cross showing himself or depicting
18:10 himself as Jesus. Yeah playing like he's Jesus and then worse than that he's
18:16 serving communion and playing with communion with a perm in his head and
18:22 acting like he's playing with communion and I thought to myself I guess he don't
18:29 know. There's still some prophets alive and so now just in case you watch him
18:35 before I talk to you I want to read to you. 1st Corinthians 11 verse 26.
18:39 Every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup you tell about the Lord's
18:45 death until he comes. Therefore whoever eats the bread or drink from the Lord's
18:50 cup in an improper way will be held responsible for the Lord's body and
18:56 blood. With this in mind individuals must determine whether what they are doing is
19:02 proper when they eat the bread and drink from the cup. Anyone who eats and drinks
19:08 is eating and drinking a judgment against himself when he doesn't
19:13 recognize the Lord's body. This is the reason why many of you are weak and sick
19:18 and quite a number of you have died. I've hurt God's feelings before but hit five
19:25 people and say I don't play with God. Little Nas if you're watching me play
19:31 with the little girls I guess you like the boys whatever you're dealing with
19:36 that's a whole nother subject but don't play with God. Maybe you got stuff I
19:40 don't agree with in your life I'll let you have that but don't you start
19:43 playing with the supper and don't you start playing with the cross because it
19:47 was at the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart rolled away.
20:01 Slap somebody say at the cross go ahead don't don't play with the cross watch
20:06 this and little Nas please do us a favor as Christians don't play with the
20:10 blood because it was the blood that washed me white as snow it was the blood
20:15 that washed my sins away it was the blood that paid for all of my mess ups
20:20 it was the blood do me a favor hit five people say nothing but the blood.
20:26 That's the wrong person it's about to get bloody in here would you walk over
20:36 to five people shake their hand and say the blood cleansed me go ahead the blood
20:40 made me whole go ahead the blood gave me another chance the blood redeemed me
20:45 the blood washed me it was at the cross where I first saw the light and the
20:49 burdens of my heart rolled away it was there by faith I received my sight and
20:55 now I'm happy all the day little Nas if you watch it I got an old-school soul to
21:00 go along with your rap there are some things I may not know there are some
21:05 places I may not go but I'm sure of this one thing that God is real because he's
21:11 real in my heart don't play with God brother Nas.
21:18 I can't be quiet don't play with the cross don't play with communion and in
21:32 full transparency because again I'm not attempting to go viral I'm sincerely
21:37 trying to help him and I read his apology because I like to be informed
21:42 before I talk and all full disclosure he did issue an apology but but but but the
21:47 apology to me seemed more like damage control than repentance because what he
21:53 found out is even people who don't go to church don't want you playing with Jesus
22:00 even other rappers was like bruh bros in the street was like bruh we know we ain't
22:07 right but don't play with Jesus do whatever you gonna do and when he found
22:11 out that he got canceled over Christ cuz even non church people particularly
22:17 black people would tell you I know I ain't right but I don't play with God no
22:24 that's too far even other rappers so to me I didn't see repentance I saw damage
22:33 control I saw damage control Jesus is calling you my beautiful black brother
22:38 to give your heart to him so anybody that might be connected I appreciate if
22:44 you tag him on this and give him this video because our goal is not to have a
22:49 hot sermon moment but to see him come to salvation
22:54 so these four brothers y'all time sit down for two minutes sit down for two
23:04 minutes because these four brothers number one I see concern I see
23:09 confrontation somebody walked up to the brother and said man you need some more
23:12 you've been stuck too long there's a man named Jesus that can get you up there's
23:16 a stranger in the city grandma said and he's healing and so they confront the
23:22 brother and say we need permission to take you to the Christ everybody here
23:26 please hear me starting next Sunday I'm begging you bring me somebody to preach
23:30 to yeah bring me somebody tell him dress just like you are wear something
23:34 respectful jog and see cool suit cool if you old-school whatever you want to wear
23:38 just dress respectful particularly if you're a lady dress respectful but we
23:41 not on that it's not about clothes it's about souls y'all bring me somebody to
23:46 preach to confront somebody in your family that you have been confronted in
23:49 a while in love and so you need some more than what you have there's a real
23:55 heaven and if there's a real heaven there got to be a real hell I don't want
23:59 to see anybody go there not only do we see concern and confrontation but
24:03 thoroughly we see creativity creativity I like that because in order to get this
24:08 brother to Christ was going to require some creativity number one how do you
24:11 get this brother to the top of the roof when he is a paraplegic great crowd by
24:17 the way how do you get him there again anachronistic thought is we got to take
24:21 a ladder how do you go up a ladder with a brother with four of us plus he's on a
24:25 stretcher drug on fault again anachronistic thinking requires some
24:28 cultural critique back in the day there seemed to be a set of steps on the side
24:34 of these little houses where you can walk up to the roof easily so they have
24:39 a set of steps to go up but they still got to be creative I told you this ten
24:43 years ago some of you remember it how do you carry a brother on a mat up steps
24:48 without him falling unless you are creative and careful because one
24:54 misstep and you'll drop him some people don't like our church because you drop
24:59 them you you won't you you weren't careful enough you you inviting him to
25:07 our church while sleeping with him he said when yo Jesus get you out my bed
25:14 I'll come to your church look down your rosary he preaching to you I don't get
25:21 in people's beds nobody's in my bed but my spouse look down your row cuz the
25:26 whole church got quiet you smoking weed with me man the word off the chain
25:35 pastor preachers on my life on my life my greatest goal before I get out of
25:50 here and I'll be out of here soon somebody else will be holding this mic
25:52 I put my time in I don't know how much longer I got I'm gonna go to God tell me
25:56 but my greatest goal in life is to finish without dropping you I hope you
26:02 believe me yeah my greatest goal I'm not exaggerating in my career is to get out
26:10 without scandal for you not to have to defend me for something that's true I
26:15 don't care about haters that don't bother me but I don't want to drop you
26:19 because of my behavior and I want all of you to have this mindset if you don't
26:23 come to my church don't let it be because of what you don't see in me yeah
26:28 I don't want you to be a cousin that says I ain't going to her church she go
26:30 up there and shout but I know what she do during the week I know her and she
26:35 always running to that church time I Jesus but I know what I see her do I
26:42 love you creativity means by the way that the church has to be creative to
26:50 give people the Christ one of the things I'm not going there past I heard about
26:54 churches and playing music and this happened and should this church have
26:58 done that Bishop Jake says something to me I should never forget he said I don't
27:02 talk about people I can talk to so I try not to talk about people I can make a
27:07 phone call to and say man I feel you I know what you're trying to get it right
27:11 there what were you thinking when you said that I receive a call so you don't
27:14 take it don't give it if you can't take it and I invite the whole country every
27:19 pastor any of you if you see error on me I'm open I don't have that I'm the
27:25 pastor you don't say nothing to me just stay in your place watch this and
27:28 remember this it'll blow you up in life leaders learn you know why I'm
27:34 successful because I'm still learning all right I'm not trying to act like I'm
27:39 25 I'll let y'all do that I'm in my 50s I'm not trying to be 25 but I'm still
27:43 learning from you I'm learning how do you have to preach so that Millennials
27:48 generation X generation Z don't fall asleep so many power I don't care about
27:53 all that stuff I'm gonna do what I do yeah that's why I just you and her
27:56 sitting there your wife praise God amen yeah keep on doing what you do nobody
27:59 gonna be there but you and her say creativity we have to be creative
28:05 without compromising and so that's why I said if y'all don't mind can I have
28:11 everybody 18 and 35 sitting right in front of me because I want them to see
28:15 my commitment and all of the people my age say go ahead pastor why because we're
28:19 being creative who's the hardest person to get to stay in church post pandemic
28:23 young people so you have to be creative and say how do we come up with ways to
28:27 keep them and get them saved amen but then watch this count the cost
28:33 evangelism has a cost evangelism has a cost if you're gonna win people to
28:39 Christ and be effective it cost you something to put billboards everywhere
28:42 it cost you something to do social media ass and say come to our church it cost
28:47 you something to feed the whole city so they know your church is relevant if we
28:51 go to Ted his brother's roof off who gonna pay for the new one if we don't
28:58 pay this brother's roof off who's gonna design the architectural plans for the
29:03 new contractors if we don't tell this brother's roof off who's on the cleanup
29:07 committee when church is over I'm teaching better than you respond if you
29:12 like good teaching sit up in your seat because there are principles in this
29:15 text that can bless you in terms of how you blow up as a ministry because
29:19 everybody got different gifts some of you don't have the money to pay for the
29:22 roof but you'll sweep the roof up others of you can't pay for it but you can help
29:27 design it others of you you'll design or sweep you write checks matter of fact I
29:34 want to prophesy 35 of you on the right check ministry y'all didn't say nothing
29:39 I wish I had 10 people that was shot with me and believe that God's gonna
29:43 put you in a position where you rather write a check then receive a check I
29:47 speak philanthropy over you I speak giving over you I speak God giving you
29:52 resources that your family has never had in the name of Jesus if you receive that
29:57 by faith that God's gonna make you a check writer not just a check receiver
30:02 jump up and sit back down and how I receive that
30:06 y'all ready for this and seeing their faith next verse somebody gonna help me
30:16 tear the club up I got five minutes let me get out of here and seeing their
30:20 faith Jesus said to the paralyzed man my child your sins are forgiven y'all
30:25 missed that and seeing their faith let me try it one more time not hearing
30:30 about their faith and seeing their faith come on look at me look at me everybody
30:34 look at me let's go home you came in this much cold weather we may as well
30:37 have church and seeing their faith let me try it again look at Jesus in a jam
30:43 packed house probably 50 or so people these places weren't that large it's
30:48 jam can't get in can't get out means jam it's jam Jesus in the middle doing what
30:54 he do spitting Christology I am the way the truth and the light lift not your
30:59 heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in your boy in me I am I
31:07 wish y'all could catch this I wish y'all could catch this let not your heart be
31:12 troubled you believe in God believe also I mean my father how's their minute
31:16 y'all gonna catch this why he's talking probably using some kind of fish nets
31:24 they put fish nets on each four corners of the bed and very carefully without
31:30 permission y'all not catching this I wish y'all could see this sometime you
31:38 read the Bible but you don't read the Bible Jesus in the middle kicking
31:43 kingdom knowledge and and dirt starts falling and next thing he knows brothers
31:47 are letting him down and front and the Bible says and seeing their faith I'm
31:54 sorry you tired of your neighbor so hit the person in front of you and say stop
31:57 talking about it and be a body go ahead tell them I'd rather see a sermon than
32:02 hear a sermon don't teach me about marriage pastor Vernon love that girl in
32:07 front of us let me see your faith don't just talk about your faith and seeing
32:12 their faith he said your sons your sins excuse me your sins are forgiven
32:18 somebody missed that way in the back let me try this one more time and seeing
32:21 their faith he said your sins are forgiven I'm gonna try this one more
32:25 time for the people to my left and seeing their faith he said your sins are
32:31 forgiven you still didn't catch it let me try one more time and seeing their
32:35 faith he said your sins are forgiven he didn't say your legs are healed God I
32:46 feel like preaching to myself the brothers who brought him are thinking we
32:51 come here for just for salvation we came here to fix his legs Jesus said oh y'all
32:58 got it twisted I always start on the inside because I'll fix you on the inside
33:03 we can handle I wish I had ten people that would thank God that you're not
33:08 perfect yet but he fixed you from the inside out I'm sorry can I get 50 people
33:13 who may not have all the money you want yet you don't have a perfect man yet a
33:18 perfect marriage yet but if the Lord touched you on the inside praise him for
33:24 an inside job and say God I thank you that you cleansed me and saved me and
33:29 redeemed me he said Jesus is always out of the box and so sometime he does what
33:43 you didn't see him doing as opposed to healing the brothers legs first he says
33:47 your sins are forgiven the next verse says that the church people were highly
33:53 offended and said who does this brother think he is to heal sins already only
33:58 God can forgive sins what's this only God y'all just miss this little do they
34:03 know they're standing in the presence let's have church because John when I
34:07 think I'll preach in my own church and go home in the beginning what's the word
34:10 what's this and the word was God what's this and the word became flesh and
34:15 dwelt among us we beheld his glory that is the only begotten of the Father full
34:19 of grace and truth little do they know they're standing in front of God how do
34:23 you know God can forgive sins because David said let's have church everybody
34:28 who got the Holy Ghost this would be shouting time right here David said to
34:32 God after he has slept with Bathsheba after he had ruined a brother's marriage
34:37 after he had broke his family's heart after he had done a bunch of nasty
34:40 trifling stuff that a king shouldn't do don't you look at me in that tone of
34:43 voice like you haven't done some stuff you shouldn't have done if you sit there
34:47 with your legs crossed like they ain't never been open I'm gonna walk off this
34:50 stage is there anybody that will help me have church and thank God for what David
34:55 said David said y'all ready try not to turn the church up blot out all my
35:01 transgressions y'all didn't say nothing I wish I had somebody that would thank
35:05 God that not only did God forgive your sins he blotted your sins out he said I
35:11 remember your sins no more stop hanging with people who keep reminding you of
35:15 what God forgot would you look at somebody and say that's under the blood
35:19 now go ahead that's the blood I was talking about 12 minutes ago that same
35:23 blood that Nas was playing with is the same blood that can wash your sins away
35:27 blot out I wish I had some people that have made some mistakes like me and you
35:33 will thank God this morning not just for a house and not just for a car and not
35:38 just for company but praise him that your sins have been blotted out and
35:43 forgiven that your past is behind you whoa I'm out of here I love y'all I'll
35:53 see you next time Jesus said I'm going y'all Jesus said in
35:59 verses 10 and 11 let me read the Bible it's 2024 well just so it's clear that
36:04 I'm the Son of Man and authorized to do either or both you didn't shout starting
36:10 next Sunday we're gonna have a class called when to shout in the RA Vernon
36:14 building at 830 in the morning I am the teacher I will be writing out the
36:17 curriculum because you're missing when the shout let me read it one more time
36:20 and see if you catch it well just so it's clear that I'm the Son of Man and
36:25 authorized to do either or both he looked now at the paraplegic and said
36:32 get up I'm gonna try this one more time now you miss your shout and I'll see you
36:38 next week because you can't go back and get it you just lost it did I tell you
36:43 he was a paraplegic and not a quadriplegic because if you a
36:47 quadriplegic then your arms don't work either but if you a paraplegic your legs
36:52 work but your arms don't so Jesus said what I want you to do is use your arms
36:57 to push yourself up by faith and then use your legs some of y'all looking at
37:03 me crazy but thank God you lost some stuff but praise God you para and not
37:08 quad which means yes you lost something but praise God that something still work
37:13 and use what you got watch what he tells him he says get up okay y'all missed it
37:20 y'all don't care you don't study Christology because if you study
37:25 Christology you know sometimes Jesus spit in the brother's eyes one time he
37:29 reached out and picked a brother up this time he used no spit he used his hand he
37:34 used his word he looked at the brother said I ain't touching you I ain't
37:38 praying for you I ain't spitting on you I'm gonna do one thing that's gonna
37:41 change your life I'm gonna give you two words that's gonna change the game it's
37:45 the same two words I got for everybody in here hit five people say get up I
37:52 don't care that your daddy didn't raise you I don't care that you're just a
37:56 black man trying to make a dollar out of 15 cent I don't care that your baby's
38:00 daddy didn't help you raise your child I don't care that your mama's crazy I
38:04 don't care that you've been on welfare I don't care that you got seven kids by
38:07 six man the devil is alive whatever you've been through in life if he woke
38:11 you up this wrong
38:14 at the word church we preach the gospel of responsibility which means I don't
38:28 care what you've been through in your life get up I don't care how many bills
38:32 you got on the table get up I don't care who walked out and left you get up her
38:37 two cancer reports last service get up I said do whatever the doctor tell you but
38:43 I call you up I said matter of fact y'all go to brunch right after this
38:47 service because you already healed in Jesus name I said do whatever the doctor
38:51 tell you take whatever medicine they give you but you ain't got time to feel
38:55 sorry for yourself I ain't never buried nobody at this altar because of breast
39:00 cancer and you ain't gonna be the first I speak over your life get your
39:04 disposition back get your joy back maybe your son acting crazy maybe your daughter
39:09 won't do right maybe you all by yourself but hit five people say get up get up
39:13 get up get up
39:16 that's the wrong person run down the aisle and hit five people say get up get
39:20 up get up get up go to help me preach this tell somebody get up get up get up
39:25 from your apathy get up from your indifference get up from your depression
39:29 get up from feeling sorry for yourself get up
39:33 I'm not getting in that hole with you I am NOT getting in that hole with you I
39:57 am NOT getting in that hole with you I don't jump in holes with people I
40:04 prophesy people out of holes I reach down and help people get out of holes
40:09 the devil is a lie I told you last week don't nobody feel sorry for you except
40:13 Jesus and your mama you ain't got time to trip on your past your GED or lack
40:19 thereof whatever you didn't do in life whatever you don't have 50 60 70 get up
40:26 and the next five years it can be fixed you see I didn't tell you no church lie
40:34 about this time tomorrow you've been too trifling for it to happen tomorrow yeah
40:40 you're gonna have to work through some of this that soul tie is real what your
40:46 kids went through because of you is real this is not plastic preaching throw ten
40:50 dollars in holla it'll be fixed when you get home you've done a lot you will have
40:56 to work your way out fill it some go through with some feel defeated
41:02 sometimes but get up face your kids and say mama did it but I'm getting up daddy
41:09 was wrong what he did to mama but I'm getting up
41:19 why the whole church standing up
41:23 he got up picked up I should have preached get up and pick up one version
41:36 says get up pick up get up pick up your palate that which had or was carrying
41:47 you you carry it take authority over get up pick up and your Bible says here it
42:01 is took me 39 minutes to get to my sermon and walked away
42:09 y'all didn't see this he got up immediately picked up his cot and walked
42:19 away okay okay what I'm supposed to say now thank you Robert Frost I think I'll
42:29 take the road less travel because what I'm supposed to say now and all them
42:33 haters were standing there and all those haters were saying who he think he is
42:37 the reason why I picked this because I need new angles after 23 years I need
42:42 new angles out of every story I preach these Jesus stories not changing I got
42:47 to preach them to the same people so Holy Spirit give me new angles they
42:50 didn't see I didn't preach this twice in my career here I ain't never seen this
42:54 the Bible says the next verse and the people that were watching it's on the
42:58 screens was amazed and praise God saying we've never seen anything like this I'm
43:06 about to say something that's not popular I won't go viral everybody not a
43:10 hater
43:12 there's some people who want to see you walk away so they can realize they can
43:22 walk away there's some nephew that want to see you walk away uncle there's some
43:27 niece they want to see her auntie walk away there's some people in your family
43:31 that's saying none of us have ever walked away from poverty none of us have
43:37 ever had a marriage that lasted without a bunch of nasty cheating none of us so
43:44 to watch you walk away gives them courage they can walk away gives them
43:49 strength they can walk away everybody not mad that she walked away some people
43:55 said if she can do it with two daughters and no husband and she can do it I can
44:02 do it if he could mess up on his wife and they come back together and fix it
44:09 it lets me know one mistake doesn't have to end every marriage if they can walk
44:15 away George place and make me stop music I told you last service you know better
44:23 George elder George place to make me stop music I speak over your life watch
44:34 me walk away everybody whose last name is the same as mine I don't know what
44:43 this name meant before I got here I just know what it mean now
44:50 go home and tell your little sister what you didn't see mama do watch big sister
45:02 you're not y'all not hearing me y'all if I can get somebody to understand that
45:08 somebody gonna have to be first somebody gonna have to walk away from
45:12 generational curses somebody gonna have to be the auntie who not always pregnant
45:19 with no relationships somebody gonna have to be the uncle that actually owns
45:24 his home and pays for it and dies and leaves a policy that they just not
45:30 crying they actually looking to see what he left walk away walk away from that
45:37 stinking thinking walk away from that ain't nobody got nothing mentality walk
45:45 away from all the men in this family are womanizers your daddy was one your
45:50 granddaddy was one not me I'm walking away and the Bible says they were all
45:57 amazed and start praising God and saying we've never seen nothing like this I bid
46:05 you goodbye thank you but I want you to catch this I got a phone call and please
46:10 don't clap that I was voted pastor of the year by the SCLC don't clap
46:14 please SCLC I was voted pastor of the year so I went and dr. Cavendish who's
46:19 95 years old same age dr. King would have been on January 15th a week ago
46:24 they were friends when he came to Cleveland dr. Cavendish hosted him they
46:28 were friends literally and so they asked me to do a 10-minute talk it's on
46:32 YouTube if you want to watch it called the gift of time the foes backwards is
46:35 wrong we just grabbed our phone and they thought somebody may want to see this so
46:39 it's just 10 minutes 8 minutes whatever and I said dr. King was gifted
46:43 vocationally dr. King was gifted occupationally dr. King was gifted
46:47 cognitively the one gift he wasn't given was the gift of time I said by 39 he was
46:54 gone I said dr. Cavendish on the other hand is 95 years old God gave you the
47:01 gift of time I says you can't love Cleveland and not talk to a Cavendish
47:08 because he holds the history in his heart and he's crying and feeling
47:12 appreciated and at the altar and he got up and said this is important a pastor
47:18 in our a pastor was sick unto death and his body was hurting so bad because he
47:23 didn't even have a hospital bed he said I called all over Cleveland and
47:27 asked all the pastors to send me something only response I got was dr.
47:32 Vernon the word church sent $1,000 we sent $1,000 the pastor died the next
47:38 week I don't even know if they ever bought the bed I didn't call back and
47:43 say give me the check back I gave it to the SCLC on behalf of us he said when
47:48 all of us traditional churches were struggling during the pandemic he said
47:52 the word church was sending all of us $1,000 to stay open he said that's why
47:58 he's the pastor of the year and then he said nobody else in Cleveland better not
48:02 say a word about this man to me 95 years old please don't clap you deserve all
48:07 the credit what I'm trying to tell you is we want to have such an impact that
48:14 Cleveland says we've never seen nothing like this y'all not hearing me because
48:21 they watch one church walk away from traditional thinking walk away from
48:29 nothing but everybody's a hundred years old on the front that all the young
48:33 people don't come no more we walked away from that walked away from you got to
48:39 have on a ten-piece suit to come to church or you're not dressed properly
48:44 walked away from preaching that makes everybody fall asleep because you're not
48:49 talking to them right where they are it's you that's making the difference
48:53 and everybody was amazed what's the greatest goal and start praising God I
48:59 want you to do me a favor I didn't like our soul numbers thank you
49:04 Eldorino Eldorino is the goat of ministry he's the goat
49:11 there's no one that holds the history of the word church in their heart and on
49:20 paper like Eldorino I love him I pay him like I love him I put golden
49:24 handcuffs on him I'm scared he gonna leave me and I know he's not going
49:28 nowhere but I pay him well I love him well because he's valuable we pay him
49:31 well you pay him well because he's the best at what he does and he showed me
49:35 our soul numbers last year I said I don't like that yeah I took my eye off
49:39 the ball offering up souls down I said Lord I receive that I receive that
49:47 pandemic is over we here now I receive that that's on me that's on me I said I
49:55 haven't been offering him enough so much going on trying to keep us safe during
50:00 the pandemic and new staff people all of that don't nothing matter more than you
50:04 knowing Jesus I want you to do me a favor if you don't go to our church
50:09 raise your hand don't lie to me raise it I'm not gonna put you on blast raise it
50:12 I'll see you somebody else raise it raise it just raise it nobody gonna put
50:15 you on blast I would never do that raise it high so I can see it please I need to
50:18 pray if you came with a friend today raise your hand raise your hand if you've
50:21 never been baptized underwater raise your hand not sprinkled underwater raise
50:26 your hand the Greek is baptismal to emerge under Catholic people I love you
50:30 it doesn't say sprinkle me in the name of Jesus it says baptize me if you've
50:34 never been baptized if you don't know Christ if you already Christian but my
50:39 preaching speaks to you upstairs I shouldn't have to say it come on come on
50:42 come on come on yeah listen to me there's a there's a number on the screen
50:46 and you need to call that number because virtual souls is souls. I don't care
50:52 where you accept Jesus at, I don't care where you get connected, I'm already
50:55 Christian. If you raise your hand, forget this whole crowd, come stand in front of
50:59 me right now. Run, run, run, run, run, run. It's all ready. It's all ready.
51:07 It's all ready. It's all ready. It's all ready. It's all ready. It's all ready.
51:27 for you
51:32 what you waiting on
51:47 jesus
51:57 me
52:08 watch this i'm serious if you was thinking about coming you think that's the devil of god
52:24 you know the devil don't want you to come i did a teaching on the holy spirit it's in our new
52:31 membership material the first thing the holy spirit does is he woos you you're not filled
52:36 with him yet because romans 8 verse 9 says he who has not the spirit has not god but the holy
52:43 spirit flirts with you and says go up there and join that church that's the holy spirit
52:47 look at him coming he flirting with people right now that's god flirting with you i'm begging you
52:53 if you was thinking about it that was jesus i need you to come up here because you don't have
52:59 to be doing nothing wrong to die if you're a young brother older brother seasoned sister married
53:04 single we're gonna sing one more time and i'm gonna ask you if you brought somebody say i'll
53:08 go up here with you if you want me to oh yeah we soul hunting we want you to go to heaven
53:13 if you were thinking about coming but the crowd is scaring you don't worry about this crowd come
53:17 on y'all come on come now come now come on come on
53:26 for me
53:29 he did it for me
53:43 yes god did it
53:57 oh
54:04 watch me walk away this word blessed our congregation i pray that it blesses you i
54:20 said recently no one's feeling sorry for you except jesus and your mama at some point you
54:26 got to get up god spoke to that brother and said get up he walked away watch this and everybody
54:31 wasn't hating there's some people that are waiting for you to walk away your children
54:37 your nieces and nephews your friends your siblings need to see somebody walk out of poverty
54:42 walk out of stupidity you've been called you've been called to walk away from me i'll see you
54:47 next time i'm praying for you
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