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me a little who [Music] see the problem I I do I do understand cuz if you weren a bible study on Tuesday or you didn't watch I talked about people not moving in uh in in worship so the band gave y'all a Groove to move to if you needed some encouragement but I do understand though when you start moving sometimes your movement tell on you it it it tell where you've been while you standing still we don't know soon as you start moving we like oh oh she ain't hook like it tell so I get it I know I know so that's why some people stand still cuz you don't want us to know how you really used to get down cuz everybody don't dance the same you know some some folk you know your shout is real churchy you know how to but some of us don't have a churchy shout cuz that ain't where we learn to dance but that's okay whatever however you dance dance but I I appreciate appreciate that come on let's give the Lord a hand clap of Praise thank God for each and every one of you who's uh here with us in worship this morning I'm grateful uh to God for another opportunity to fellowship with the Saints we're going to go to The Gospel According to Luke chapter number 22 I'm going to read out of the King James version this morning Luke 22 uh I'm going to read from verse 31 to 32 while you're turning there I do want want to let everyone know this Thursday um prayer uh this Thursday will be focusing on our kids heading back to school for the new year so we want to pray with you and for your children so parents you come bring your children we want to pray for you all uh and with you all for uh the the the protection uh of our children their health uh their healing and their success uh for the upcoming school year amen amen uh if you would stand with me in reverence of reading the word of God a familiar passage of scripture Luke 22 verse 31-32 out of the King James version it says this and the Lord said Simon Simon behold Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat yeah but I have prayed for thee okay that thy faith fail not and when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren how many are grateful Jesus has prayed for you man this real simple today let's pray God we love you we thank you thank you for your care and your concern for us we ask that you would speak to us today and we want to feel your love and your concern and your care this morning help us to understand how you see us better and better through your word and we'll be careful to give you all the praise the honor and the glory in Jesus name we pray amen amen you may be seated in the presence of the Lord I don't know what a good um message um or a good title for this message is this morning uh because I want to talk to uh the failures this morning the disappointments the bad kids the troublemakers uh last week we talked to the gifted people uh and this week I want to talk to uh yeah the folks that maybe they never labeled you gifted maybe they labeled you learning disabled maybe they never labeled you talented maybe they labeled you trouble maybe they never promoted you maybe they failed you talk to those that didn't get put in the gifted in talented program going to talk to those that maybe you got held back a time or two and I want to let you know that you are still the same people that the scriptures say to each and every one of us he has given a gift that everybody ran when they saw you coming the teacher shook their head when you walked in their classroom on the first day of school that the Saints run when you show up you have been given a gift of manifestation of the spirit I know when you walk in everybody goes uhoh here comes trouble but you have been given a gift a manifestation of the spirit and it's necessary for me to talk to the troublemakers to the disappointments today and if that's not you give me a minute I mean you know you might not think I'm talking to you but I'm talking to to you you know a lot of people last week when I was talking to the gifted people they was quick to assume I was talking to them but it's not my job to say who's who but the funny thing about life is the gifted and the disappointments often they overlap that one of the reasons you're labeled a disappointment is because you had so much gifting and use busy causeing trouble and the tough thing about in the thing that overlaps about why it's important for me to share these messages is whether gifted or disappointment the worst thing you can allow either one of those things to do is to become your label the worst thing A Gifted person can do is allow their label to be I'm the gifted one the same way the worst thing a disappointment somebody who has disappointed a lot of people let a lot of people down frustrated a lot of people angered a lot of people the worst thing you can do is allow that to become your label cuz I'm coming talking to the disappointments today who most importantly you may have disappointed your teachers you may have disappointed your parents you may have disappointed your pastors and leaders uh but the real concern I have is if you've ever disappointed yourself that's that's the real issue cuz disappointing people is is really tough that's the thing that really hurts children's feelings we get comfortable with making our parents mad we could recover when our parents are mad at us when your parents get get disappointed in you that's a different ball game but I need to help somebody recover today not because their parents are disappointed in them but because they feel like a disappointment you feel like a disappointment to yourself cuz I came to tell you today if you ever become a disappointment to yourself you can disappoint me all will be well you could disappoint your husband or you could disappoint your wife all will be well but if you ever begin living in the disappointment you have with yourself the enemy has one in your life if you ever own that disappointment that you have with yourself as this is who I am that is when the enemy has gotten the victory in your life he doesn't get the victory when you make a mistake he doesn't get the victory when you slip up and have a drink he doesn't get the victory when you slip up and cuss and lie and fuss and steal and go back out or relapse that is not when the enemy gets the victory the enemy wins when you own the disappointment not when it's a mistake you made or a mistake you make cuz you might be in the middle of making it but the day you decide I am a disappointment is the day the enemy won this is real simple today that is why we preach a gospel of grace and I know a lot of preachers don't want to preach Grace how Grace really is cuz we scared of what you might do if you find out how much grace you really have but the only way you can have victory over the enemy is if you own the grace of God you can't win against the Devil by how well you think you can live cuz the better you think you live the more disappointed you will be when you fail that's why you must always live in Grace and I ain't getting to heaven cuz how well I can live I'm getting to Heaven because despite my failures Jesus say I can still come that's what it boils down to however great you decide to live however mistakes and and things you overcome at the end of the day you will only see the kingdom because Jesus invited you and paid for your entry that's what's going to be so wonderful about the day of judgment the devil going to be shooting his best shot and he is going to be displaying all of our failures he's going to be telling on us and those of us that have lived in Grace go say yep that's me oh no no no no he got that right I ain't got nothing to clarify on that but uh me and God we talked about that I confessed and Jesus say I could still come hallelujah oh no no no yeah that's me yeah I did that oh o I forgot I did that too but I talked to Jesus and he said that I could still come yeah I did that 10 more times matter of fact let's speed this up there's 13 more times of me doing that and Jesus said I can still come and the reason I'm here and willing to as to come in even though I've let everybody down I let myself down is I own the grace of God more than I own my failures we do you a disservice if I won't let you live in the true Grace that God really has for you cuz Grace is why a righteous man falls seven times and gets back up again it the the righteousness isn't in Never Falling you show you are righteous when you keep getting back up because I know that my righteousness listen to me the reason why righteous people fall and keep getting back up and wicked people stay down is because I'm righteous not because it's mine I own the righteousness of Jesus Christ and that righteousness that is imputed it ain't earned Jesus gave me my righteousness you got to know who you are when Jesus went to Calvary and rose again on the third day and sent the Holy Ghost he gives righteousness we don't earn righteousness he gave it to me so my I didn't get up and earn it he gave it to me while I was down I ain't even this ain't even what I came to preach today but the Bible says while we were yet in our sins in due time Christ died for the ungodly meaning he died for me when I was down that is why when I trip and fall I did not lose his grace you fall into his grace you don't fall out of Grace you fall into Grace you fall out of Grace out of Grace with people but you fall into Grace With God you might fall out with people but you fall into Grace is why Jesus said Peter Satan desires to have you and sift you like we but it ain't your Grand Occasion that makes me love on you it is when Satan's devices have been set up against you that is when Jesus is affection for you is stoked he said oh Peter you getting ready to run into some trouble but the trouble is why I came the day you going to trip up is the day I'm here for the day you going to disappoint yourself see we think God likes us when we like ourselves you think God is happy with you when you happy with yourself but I came to tell you he said Peter you got some trouble on the way but that trouble is why I'm praying for you that trouble is the reason why I am here I came to talk to the disappointments you can't get so disappointed with yourself that you will not live in the grace of God his grace is what we fall into is the reason why you keep getting back up I'm righteous cuz I accepted salvation while I was down that's why when I do trip and fall it feels like a familiar place to call on Jesus yeah y'all think oh listen I ain't even come to preach this this just supposed to be my introduction but y'all don't know the place you're supposed to call on Jesus is from when you were down see we feel more confident to pray when we've done all that we know to do yeah I've been crossing my tees dotting my eyes filling out my tithe and checks and giving my offence I ain't cuss nobody out in a solid six months I've been telling the truth doing right I've been at Bible study God let me make some requests but I came to tell you the real time that you are qualified cuz you might think that all of your good behaviors qualify you to talk to God and you will come to him in appropriate rely but I came to tell you when a sinner calls on God and is heard that is why all of us had that day when we recognize I'm a sinner in need of Salvation and I can't save myself I've tried my whole life to fix it and at this point I need to be saved I'm saved and a lot of people take that light label as the same as meaning I'm a Christian saved and Christian are like the same but saved and Christian are not actually interchangeable words see Christian is like that's when I'm doing well but I do label myself as Sav that meaning I want you to know on my best day remember I'm a rescued person when you see me preaching and teaching and laying hands on people and they getting healed and prophesying and folks getting out of wheelchair I'm saved meaning I had no power to deliver myself I had no power to make myself better I had no power to break my habits so I had a savior that came and grabbed me I ain't just a Christian I'm saved I was drowning Sinking Deep in sin far from the peaceful Shore the master of the sea heard my despairing cry and from the waters he see okay I know y'all don't sing songs like that no more but from the waters he lifted me so whenever you find yourself in the waters he can still hear you cuz that's where he first heard you what you can never do is let your disappointments overshadow the grace of God that's when the enemy has won cuz Jesus tells Peter this is right before he goes to Calvary hey Peter Satan desires to have you and sift you as wheat but I have prayed for you CU here's the key he didn't pray that Satan wouldn't get to have his way Jesus did not pray that Satan wouldn't win Jesus did not pray that Peter wouldn't go into the trouble he didn't pray that it would be over quick he didn't pray for his mama or his friends or his loved ones Jesus had a simple prayer that your faith does not fail cuz let me read a few more scriptures to you let me let me give give you how this story plays out one part is Peter said I'll never deny you Jesus said you going to deny me Peter says I'll never deny you I'll die for you Peter genuinely believed that he would die for Jesus well if you don't know how the story goes let me tell you how the rest of the story goes you can scroll further down to Luke 22 verse 54 Jesus has been arrested and it says they took him and led him talking about Jesus into the high priest's house and Peter followed a far off and when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and were sat down together Peter sat down among them but a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire and earnestly looked upon him and said this man was also with Jesus and he denied him saying woman I know him not and after a little while another saw him and said Thou Art also of them and Peter said man I am not in about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed saying of a truth this fellow was with Jesus for he is a Galilean and Peter said man I don't know what you're talking about and immediately while he yet spake the crew and the Lord turned and looked upon Peter and Peter remembered the word of the Lord how he had said unto him before the Crow Thou shalt deny me Thrice and Peter went out and wept bitterly isn't that tough Jesus told him you're going to deny me three times and Peter said he would never do it and right after the third time Jesus is arrested in Chains and and right after Peter denies him the third time Jesus looks at him Peter locks eyes with Jesus and that's when he remembers what Jesus said to him and he leaves and weeps bitterly now I came to tell you what you cannot do is Project into Jesus's eyes and into that look like Jesus is looking at you the same way your mama looked at you the last time you disappointed her what you can't do is Project into that look that Jesus had to Peter the same look that your teachers had every time they had to kick you out again see that's the problem when we've disappointed a lot of people even when we've disappointed ourselves and the last time you looked in the mirror and you came home High and drunk and you looked at yourself in the mirror and you were so disappointed you can feel like when Jesus looks at you he's looking at you the same way and Peter leaves and weeps bitterly for the sake of time I want to jump into the book of Acts chapter number two verse 14-1 17 but Peter standing up with the 11 lifted up his voice and said unto them ye men of Judea and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem be this known unto you hearken to my words for these are not drunk as you suppose seeing it is but the third hour of the day but this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel and it shall come to pass in the last days saith God I will pour out of my spirit upon All Flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams let me tell you how The Story Goes Peter denies Jesus he leaves and weeps bitterly when Jesus looks at him but I read to you Acts chapter number two Peter preaches the first message after the day of Pentecost after the Holy Ghost has fallen and the the disciples spill out of the upper room and they're speaking in other languages and prophesying and they begin to be mocked by the onlookers saying that they're drunk all 12 of them are there but guess who stands up the same Peter that left weeping bitterly is the same Peter that stands up and say wait a a minute these aren't drunk as you suppose let me tell you what's really happening here this is that that the problem you've been reading Joel for Generations but what you don't know is you don't have to read it anymore this is that you don't have to wait on it anymore this is that and thousands were added to the church you won't get a more powerful gospel message than the one Peter preached in Acts chapter number two but the disappointments find their Grace Everything Changes okay okay listen when the people who have been failing over and over again find their Grace the world is going to change that's what Jesus said I pray for you that your faith don't fail and when you're converted don't just stay saved don't just not make another mistake cuz oh Peter going to make some more mistakes but when you're converted failure loser disappointment strengthen your brethren listen I'm getting ready to go what I want you to know if you ever feel like a disappointment if you ever feel like a failure you have to ask some questions if you ever feel like you're one of the bad ones just a bad seed bad at at what what are you bad at like I'm just I'm I'm just bad bad at what just a disappointment disappointing to who now I mean it bad at what and disappointing to who see this is why disappointment is such a powerful emotion if is because it means we had expectation ideas of how things were going to go and we failed to meet expectations and that is why when you wear the label of disappointment typically what that comes what comes with that is I'm not going to try anymore I'm not going to have expectations of myself anymore I'm going to put the bar on the ground so I can never fall short again that's why I can't let you sit in that label because you have a gift you have a manifestation of the spirit and off if all you're trying to do is not disappoint yourself not lose again you will never manifest the spirit of God cuz you'll never prophesy CU you'll be too scared of being wrong you'll never preach because you'll be too scared of it not going well and you disappoint all the people that believed in you I don't want to disappoint you Pastor so no I'll pass yes I know you done blew up a couple marriages and you scared to get another relationship cuz you scared to blow it again you don't want to make any friends cuz you've been holding on to your salvation by a thread and you don't know when you going to fall off so that's why you stayed in the back you stayed distant cuz you don't want to get comfortable because you don't want anybody to know you trying to live right just in case it does not work question is who are you afraid of disappointing if you didn't know people who feel stereotyped tend to stereotype other people oh God when you feel stereotyped you tend to stereotype other people so I know You' made a lot of mistakes and you've been a failure and you feel like when people see you that's all they see so typically when you come into a group of people you stereotype them too so a lot of people who are troublemakers y'all stereotype us church people and presume we all goody too shoes that's why you stand in the back cuz you don't think you belong with the goody two shoes you one of the bad kids and you don't belong with the nice kids so you walk into church and go look at all these nice kids I'm one of the bad kids I don't belong with them so I'll never connect with them but I came to tell you this ain't the gifted and talented program this is in school suspension what the devil don't want you to know is this isn't the Gathering of the gifted and talented this is those we've been sent to the principal's office you don't know we all in here because the teacher pulled us out of class not because we were answering all the questions right not because we were succeeding so well we are here cuz the teacher said that's enough go see the principal and you walked in here thinking you don't belong but I came to tell you this the principal's office this in school suspension that's that suspension where they said n i't sending you to the house cuz your mama might make you a grilled cheese and let you watch TV no sit right here so we can look at you and watch [Music] you what you cannot do is stereotype the people of God I promise you you might think you too much of a hoodlum to run with us that's why you got to actually get to know the Saints cuz you'll find out this ain't the goody two shoes no some of us deserve to be in not just in jail in solitary confinement we deserve to be in maximum security if you knew who was in here you wouldn't feel so tough [Music] all we do you wouldn't feel like nah I'mma just come and I'mma leave cuz I don't have nothing in common with these church folk do not stereotype the people that are in here because you feel stereotyped cuz yeah we looking at you yes you do feel Str yes we like who are you but what you can't do is project on us what you think we thinking the same way Peter couldn't project on Jesus what he thought he was thinking when he looked at him he might have thought Jesus was looking at him cuz he was disappointed in him but what he doesn't know Jesus was looking at him like Peter this is the reason I prayed for you so a couple things from this story Jesus said Peter let me tell you something's getting ready to happen nobody sees you like Jesus sees you you don't see yourself like Jesus sees you Peter saw himself as confidently he was confident that he would stand with Jesus and he had reason for that confidence if you know your Bible when the soldiers came to arrest Jesus Peter was willing to fight like it wasn't no CH he pulled out his sword cut a soldier's ear off trying to project protect Jesus because he said I'll die for you Peter believed he would he had reason for his confidence Jesus told Peter put that Sword Down you live by the sword you die by The Sword and pick that man's ear up and put it back on his head what Peter didn't know is that he would succeed in one context of being willing to die with Jesus but he would fail in another context he was who we thought he was when it was time to fight he wasn't who he thought he was when it was time to endure he was who he thought he was when everybody had swords he wasn't who we thought he was when it was a little handmade saying you with the guy who was arrested he was willing to stand up to soldiers but a little girl he could not stand up to tell somebody context matters oh God who did you fail what are you bad at context matters some of us got the label bad in school and we've been wearing it ever since but just because you're bad at school does not mean you're bad cuz can I tell you people who are successful are at school aren't necessarily the smartest they're the best at a certain set of skills like sitting still y'all ain't goingon to make me do this today you think you got a brilliant child no you have a child that can sit still and some children aren't dumb they're bad at sitting still exactly so they fa not because they're dumb because they're bad at a particular skill that that place is designed around see schools are designed very specifically it is a very specific context that is conducive to a very specific set of skills like sitting still organization submission to Authority on I said it last week I feel the Holy Ghost I said it last week that there's a reason why C students and students that don't do well in school tend to be successful it's not that there's nothing wrong with school is that they were smart all along they were just bad in the context of school cuz I think better when I'm walking y'all listen listen listen listen listen listen listen y'all wonder why I Pace up here sir cuz I think better while I'm walking my brain my my brain works when my feet work I sit at my desk and I read and I read and it makes no sense to me and then I get up and walk and all of a sudden it starts making sense all of a sudden the dots start connecting as my feet move but when I was in school the teacher say sit still until you understanding but now I need to get up and walk because they couldn't let me walk I couldn't connect the dots so until I was able to break out of that place what was in me remained hidden because I was a failure in that place but places [Music] [Applause] matter some of y'all you just needed to be able to get up and walk they told you to be good you got to sit still no that's you got to sit still in that place but there are places where walking is beneficial there are places where we got to run on high places so sitting still isn't the [Music] optimal context matters your surroundings matter a failure at what bad at what this is why Jesus didn't pray that Satan wouldn't get a hold of Peter he say Satan desires to have you and sift you like wheat now that sound sounds so dangerous and bastardly that Satan will get to sift you like wheat that's because you don't know what you really need some of the bad kids you don't need a whooping you need a [Music] sifting yall need to get grounded you need to be sifted you don't need punishment you need to be sifted I know at church we even do get in trouble we going to say you silent sit out somewhere and be quiet like that's typically our solution for the bad kids is to sit down somewhere don't ask me how I know I tell my kids to sat down somewhere in a New York minute while I'm up walking around cuz I need help praying and walking I pray and walk I'll be pacing Lord I need some help sit down and don't move until I tell you to get up Lord I made a mistake help me that's because we don't we think bad kids and bad people need punishment what you really need is sifting so I'm not gonna do the whole thing on sifting in wheat I'm sure there's preachers out there that have preached the message of sifting so go Google it if you've never seen if you've never seen if you've never seen cuz that's not my job today I just got to let you know what sifting is for and the reason why you need it see to sift wheat is to separate that's right the seed that we can eat from the husk that's around it so when you sift wheat you shake it up till what was around it is removed and what is edible is revealed so what you need is not punishment it's a sifting so the reason why they kick you out and put you out and don't let you come in they're not punishing you you're being sifted because your circumstance is what makes you look like a failure you were bad in school where sitting was primary but when they kicked you out of school and you failed out of school that wasn't a punishment that was a sifting because school is a type of husk it is a type of surrounding it is a type of environment and while the seed of wheat is in the husk it is not useful for people are you y'all missing the whole thing it is edible it is useful it is good for us it is useful for us but what's around it makes it inedible so the shaking the beating isn't to punish the wheat it is to change it what surrounds the wheat so when you flun out of school it's not a mistake that you flunked out if you label yourself disappointment because I failed out of that place you'll never find out that place is what was keeping you from being useful yes sir that condition that set of rules are what were keeping you you're not a failure you just need to be sifted meaning you need to break out of that space this is why the house of God calls all who are hungry who are thirsty because this is where you come after everywhere else couldn't use you that's why Peter Jesus said hey Peter the devil going to get after you but I've prayed that while what has been around you is being removed while the way you identified cuz you was wheat when you had a husk but while you are being shaken that you will believe you are who I say you are because e the first thing Jesus says to Peter when he meets him is you're son but I'm going call you cus Peter and Upon This Rock I'mma build my church so then we find Jesus after walking with him for three years he says Simon I know when I first met you I said your name GNA be Peter but Simon cuz I ain't been bothering you all these years you still got your blade yeah you been coming here a long time and you still got your pistol and it ain't even licensed I ain't talking you still got it you know exactly where to tuck it that if we do decide to Frisk you we wouldn't find it you steal you you steal you and you think cuz you steal you you can't come in with us no Peter was with the 12 with the other 11 still cussing still carrying his knife but Jesus said Upon This Rock Peter I'm going build my church thank you Lord but he ain't bothering me let him walk with him all that time he said what I need you to know is the devil going to sift you but I need you to know when you're being sifted I don't want you to think I got it wrong when I called you into this place I didn't get it wrong when I said you're one of my disciples I didn't make a mistake when I brought you to lamb Christian Church I didn't make a mistake when I said to you this is your people I know you came in here and look around and go these aren't my people but I pray that in this sifting season that your faith in what God has planned for your life would not fail thank cuz the whole of the matter is Jesus saw the trouble before Peter did and he still called him Jesus knows you better than you know yourself he gave you the assignment even before you made what you thought was the Fatal mistake your assignment is not contingent upon not making a mistake your assignment is contingent upon you deciding that come would make hell high water mistakes and setbacks is still my assignment cuz I have a manifestation of the spirit and there is no failure that can stop cuz you know what's crazy then liftings and callings of God he does not change his mind about what your gift and your calling is it's in the book that the giftings and callings of God are without repentance meaning if he gave it to you he don't change his mind about it he don't even feel bad about the fact that he gave it to you it's just yours yeah the only question is where will you use it cuz it's yours cuz I don't ran it to people in the streets and I say oh that's a gift from God they just using it that's why some of Y the nastiest R&B singers we ever known will come in this church in shackles and chains and tear the roof off this place get l in in Chains don't hand them the mic we'll all be in the Flor y'all know who I'm talking about t his church up and the self-righteous like look at them no the giftings and callings of God is just his the same way I ain't going to judge it it's just yours and the only way it won't work is if you don't choose to use it some people we judge is they just have enough ner to keep using it that's the only difference I just got enough nerve to keep preaching I'm just crazy enough to make a mistake and still say what I got to do what God told me to do I'm just crazy enough to be the Peter that denied Jesus and got the nerve to be the first one to stand up and preach about [Music] Jesus he going to be the one to deny him and then got the nerve ner the nerve to get up the scripture say the other 11 were there right somebody else could have preached this message but Peter cutting off soldiers ears fishing naked it's in the book saw Jesus come he jumped in the water it's all in your [Applause] book John who labels himself the one whom Jesus loved who followed him all the way to the cross and Jesus looked down on him and said John take care of my mother that's your mother and M that's your son that John was there but Peter got up well if y'all ain't going to say nothing listen to me cuz context matters following Jesus the way was a little struggle for Peter but building the church Peter was cut out for that dealing with the mocking oh that was Peter's wheelhouse that's what say disappointing to who bad at what Peter was bad at standing with Jesus when he was on the cross but he was sure enough a bad motor scooter when it came to walking in the [Applause] spirit Peter went and preach to the Gentiles see this is why you got to live in Grace cuz Peter was the first one to go preach to the Gentiles but then he had to get rebuked by Paul for preaching the gospel to him and then I want to sit with him at lunch that's why when you decide to walk with Jesus you got to walk with him in Grace Satan's plan is to make you believe you are useless and no good for people because of your mistakes and your failings when the reality is your surroundings how you've been used who you've been around has really been the issue that is the whole point of coming into the gospel of grace is that this is the pillaring ground of Truth where the spirits of just men are made perfect this is for those who were no good anywhere else it's 9:10 I want you to go read the book of Corinthians where Paul looks around and he says there are not many wise among us there are not many noble among us there are not many powerful among us but God chose the base things of this world the LW The Forsaken the useless the failures the disappointments that's who we chose to confound the wisdom of the wise I know your teacher failed you I know your parents were frustrated by you I know your wife don't like [Music] you it happens unfortunately she love you but she don't like you cuz you know you can love somebody and just not like I just really don't like you yeah yep it happens and he going to call you to confound the wisdom of the wise cuz then they're going to talk to you and try to say well what is it about you you've got some hidden talent no I don't I have the grace of God I the math ain't on my gift the math is on I just have the nerve to believe I have a manifestation of the spirit or you can go to 1 Samuel chapter number 22 and it's one of my favorite I I I just want to read the beginning of it verse one and two David there therefore departed then and escaped to the cave of adullam and when his Brethren and all his father's house heard it they went down thither to him and everyone that was in distress and everyone that was in debt and everyone that was discontented gathered themselves unto him and he became a captain over them and there were with him about 400 men they went to the cave of adullam because they were in distress they were in debt they were discontented and they met David while he was on the run too in the cave but he became their captain in the cave yeah I know you came to church in a dark season but as long as Jesus becomes your captain I know you ran because you were discontented distressed and in debt but while you're discontented and in distress what it is is you just need a new captain yeah yeah yeah you've been captain in your own ship all this time you just need a new captain in the same way David was crazy enough to in the cave while he was on the run to say I'm going to be your captain Jesus while you're on the Run says I'll be your captain now long story short these 400 men they go on this journey with David good and bad but when David finally becomes king and they re-enter the city There's A procession and in this procession these 400 men when they left the city and went to the cave they were in distress they were in debt they were discontented but they found a captain in the cave once they came back to the city the same distressed discontented and inept were now captains of the king's Army and leaders in the entire government cuz they found their captain in the cave and literally they processed back in the city the same place that they left in distress they came back in the king's procession they were in David's cabinet they were rulers and leaders and the people the last time I saw you you was running cuz you owed me money and now I see you and you with the King yeah how'd you do that I let him be Captain when we were in the cave I let him be Captain when he didn't pay my debt yet I I didn't things didn't get better but I he he was my captain even when it looked like he was losing I joined while other people were leaving I came to Christ when the world was saying they didn't need religion anymore I need y'all to hear me I came and followed Jesus when people were saying the Bible wasn't reliable I came to follow Jesus even when they were saying pastors are crooked and can't be trusted I came to follow Jesus even when they were saying Christians are judgmental people and hypocrites I came to follow Jesus even while the debt collector was calling me I kept calling on Jesus I came and followed Jesus even when I was having relapses and falling off the wagon I kept following Jesus even when my friends and family didn't like me no more I had enough nerve to believe Jesus could still love me I kept following Jesus when people told me that the sound of my voice frustrated them but I kept calling on Jesus so don't get it mistaken the next time you see me and I am blessed I am the head and not the tail I am above and not beneath I am the lender and not the borrower I have life and that more abundantly I have peace that passes all understanding I have joy unspeakable joy God is manifesting through me it's because I found my captain but I had to go to the cave when you see Peter preaching it ain't cuz he always done right right it's cuz Jesus say listen you going in but I prayed for you and you kept your faith through the sifting process that's what qualifies us to preach teach prophesy help is not that we've not made mistakes is that we held our faith through the sifting process you're not you're not a failure you're not bad you just been in the wrong house yeah you weren't dumb you just can't sit still so here we'll say well go ye into all the lands and make the y'all did y'all hear what I said you could you got in trouble in school cuz you had to sit still well we oh you in church tonight and you can't sit still well go evangelize get up and go to all the Earth and make disciples I don't need everybody to sit still now some people sit still and meditate some people read and write some people go and preach some people take vows of Silence this is where the broken people come to find that you have a manifestation of the spirit it might be sitting still it might be walking it might be talking it might be crying it might be joking it might be hugging it might be preaching but you and your failing self have a manifestation of the spirit you you just need to find the place it might not be the Usher Department you tried that and they kicked you out like [Music] n Kevin call you go Hey listen you know he's he's very appropriate he going to kick you out nice kicked you out of that you threw blows in the kitchen how you scrapping over the rolls tried the Youth Department and you whooped somebody baby so got to go out of there say no we can't hit other people's children this is was tough as a pastor I know there a sifting you you you you you you finding the place that what is useful about you where it's going to be revealed you got to get shook up a little bit before you find that place cuz some of you all it is going to be on Mission cuz you can't get along with nobody so don't sit in here with us go why you keep trying to sit around here with us go out there and witness to the dope dealers that's your you you real comfortable there you don't have to sit still in here them Dope Boys on the corner that's your Vibe go don't come in here and fake like that ain't your Vibe go witness and some of the church people they'll be scared oh my gosh those men look dangerous and you've been faking like you was born in church all your life and you don't know you know they don't know you know half them guys like right we've been looking for you where you been man I'm with the Saints oh I know I ain't the only one that happened to I told y'all before it happens we work in church trying to be corporate vice president preacher was having a conversation at the gym one of my boys I used to rip and run with happen to walk in d what up D sh hey man how are you [Applause] how they say hi to you will determine where they know you from some people will see me and say praise the Lord Pastor God bless you man of God some people cuz that's how they know me some people are going to say hello DC it's good to see you that mean they know me from work they call me DC hey DC how's it going and some people going to go do what up do what you in baby what type of time you [Applause] on I've lived a lot of lives just know and I've been me and all of them but the the surroundings have been different oh and some of y'all don't know you think all I've ever heard my life is praise the Lord Pastor no and that's why you stayed far away but just because you feel stereotyped don't stereotype this place there's some Peters up in here they came in here with bodies on their gun you've been carrying yours for 10 years and ain't shot at once and you think you too tough to be in here [Music] no it's long dope to have the E side in here but this is the place where the failures the disappointments the useless find that you have a m manifestation of the spirit cuz when you are converted you will strengthen your brethren when you survive this season of your marriage being on the Rocks you're going to strengthen somebody whose marriage is in a difficult [Applause] season when you come through this season of disappointment and you hold on to your faith you going to strengthen somebody who is feeling disappointed with themselves and their lives so Peter just Jesus just said just don't let your faith fail you cuz the day of Pentecost is coming I know you might not have felt like I was the preacher I was preaching to you last week when I was talking to the gifted people he was like well what about us that all we did was fail welcome to the club this is the place cuz that's why Jesus died for you and that's why he called you some people when they see me preaching they say I knew and other people when they see me they go you both when you're converted my last thing is y'all know what Peter needed the holy ghost at the end of the day y'all know what happened between him weeping bitterly and him standing up and saying this is that there was a similar event that though Peter had failed he still found himself in the upper room where they were waiting on another comforter even after he had failed Jesus that's the difference between Peter and Judas Judas labeled himself disappointment and hun himself Peter was disappointed but still came back so Peter was waiting in the upper room with everybody else when the Holy Ghost fell and Peter was full of the Holy Ghost cuz when he didn't have the Holy Ghost when they were mocking him he denied Jesus but when he did have the Holy Ghost their mocking made Peter stand up and preach y'all hear me so you don't need to just come to church more you need to be full of the spirit you need to be converted you don't need to find your talent you need to find the Holy Spirit I know you call yourself a Serial entrepreneur some people you might be but what you need is the Holy Spirit you don't just need to try harder you need to be full of the Holy Spirit you don't need to understand this more cuz you know what to do when you still don't do it y'all hear me you do you know right but you do wrong all the time this ain't about you knowing more of your Bible this about you being full of the holy spirit so I want you to stand up cuz I'm going to make an altar call come on call to come on all workers this is why he says come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I'll give you rest take my yoke upon me on upon you and learn of [Music] me for my yoke is easy and my burden is light come to me come to me not read about [Music] me come to me is the first thing cuz you just got to come cuz he'll do two things if you come I'm making a call for baptism and I want everybody to know who's watching us online God bless you we love you I appreciate you worshiping with us today and I hope your failures your mistakes haven't kept you in isolation and alone that you would know you and all your mistakes and all your anxieties and all your social issues we can handle that all in here so come you need to come to Jesus we have water we have a change of clothes even for you we'll meet you here any day of the week that you can make it here and we'll baptize you in the matchless name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and the scriptures say he will fill you with the precious gift he'll fill you with his spirit in the times where you would fail you'll succeed the times where you would run you will stand cuz the Holy Spirit the Bible says when you are un unable to stand it'll make you stand it'll Quicken your mortal body some of us would fail we would fall but God makes us stand we wouldn't go back but he holds Us in his hand that is the power of the Holy Holy Spirit God bless you we love you they're going to put the giving information on the screen I want you to bless God before you go we love you and we'll see you in Bible study on Tuesday come on saints of God give the Lord a hand clap of Praise those who are in the [Applause] house e for