[Music] our foundational text that we're going to go to in just a moment is the Gospel of John the Gospel of John chapter 10 you can pre-mark your Bibles there the Gospel of John chapter 10 we're going to launch our reading at verse number two but I have good news and bad news the bad news is this is the finale of our voices series the good news is God is still speaking and he has more to say for series to come but this is the finale of our voices series the aircraft of this sermon series has finally landed on the runway parked at the gate we are exiting the aircraft of the sermon series I've been surrendered to the holy spirit with this series for Three Plus months we've been in this thing for 14 weeks for like I haven't done a series this long since TR me in 2020 when God gave me the word try of November 2019 and then the pandemic popped off March of 2020 I had no idea when I was being obedient to that word try me that that was my banner word that that personal word will become a local word which will become a national word and then a global word so the reason we have that big 70inch flag outside the church that's swaying that says try me is because one word from God can change everything just one word from God you don't need every door you just need one door one word from God could change everything and if God did it for me he could also do it for you and I've been striving to the best of my capability and of course through the empowering of the Holy Spirit to give us B biblical nutrients and spiritual wisdom so that we can be men and women of God who could discern better and be better followers of Jesus I want us to recognize God has given all of us a call but we needed to plow through voices for 14 weeks so that when God calls you you can hear him whatever calling that God has placed on your life I want you to fulfill it whatever purpose that you're supposed to fulfill while you're here in time I want you to fulfill It Whatever anointing God has poured on your life to break chains I want you to break them while you're here in time I want all of us to win whatever battle that you're supposed to win I want all of us to win I want all of us to eat all of us to eat the living bread but watch this I'm not responsible for making your plate okay here we go I want all of us to win but I'm not responsible for making your plate yes the word does work but you have to work the word see it it's it's one thing for you to say meditate on thy law day and night it's one thing for you to quote blessed is the man who hungers and thirsts after righteousness it's another thing if you actually are hungry for righteousness and hungry for Jesus I said this all last year and I'm probably going to say this for the rest of my Ministry tenure information without application no transformation so many people want God to give them transformation and the holy spirit's like okay with all of the information you have no application I understand that you have your PhD your md you have more degrees than a thermostat that's great information but what does it matter if you have a lot of information but you don't put it into application knowledge is not power applied knowledge is stop being intimidated because somebody has more information if you have less information but more application you will experience more transformation is this making sense I want all of us to eat but I'm not responsible for making your plate if you're going to have to be intentional if you want to transition from interest to Commitment you're going to have to be intentional do your part if you want to transition from being Christian is to being sold out you're going to have to be intentional if you want to transition from sometimes to consistency sometimes I pray sometimes I'll come to church sometimes I'll fast sometime if you want to transition from some times to consistency then you're going to have to be intentional because consistency is discipline on repeat y'all hear me I read my Bible this morning I'm going to do it again on tomorrow and then again on tomorrow consistency is discipline on repeat watch this and discipline is the diet of the next level God wants to take us all of us pull pit to Pew online inhouse overflow God wants to take us to another level but he has this methodology before he does it he calls you to detox you to train you so he can send you so he could use you one more time for notak takers this is the methodology God calls you to detox you to train you to send you so that he could use you you're called to let the Lord use you not people but now here we're about to get uncomfortable I'm doing this in the beginning but here it is all of us God wants to take to another level oh I hope y'all are ready for this God wants to take you to another to another level but he won't let you board the next level with hazardous material I want you to go to the next level all of us have a flight what is that your elevation but he loves you so much that he won't let you elevate with hazardous material because not only will it hurt you but it'll hurt everybody else on board that flight so I need you to trust and know God's voice to such a degree When God says okay let me check the carryon of your Soul cuz there's certain things you packed in here you can't take with you there that that was cool with you that was cool when you didn't know me but now that you know my voice you need to listen when I'm trying to detox you so when God says okay and and the carryon of your soul man I you're called but you you you can't take this with you you you you can't you can't somebody's some body's getting tight right now yeah I I called you so you can't take this with you I'm whatever I got to do so you can get it whatever I'm going whatever I got to do you're not going to sit under this word and say I didn't understand you going to get it today I promise I've been waiting for you at the do I've been waiting all weekness has been in my soul so so listen he's saying okay this was before you knew me this was before you knew my voice but now that you hear my voice this is trash for where I'm trying to take you this is hazardous I I I don't agree with that I I I could do what I want okay I got Bible for you I got Bible okay um 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 12 I I want you to I want you to see this real quick it says I have the right to do anything you say but not everything is beneficial I have a right to do anything but I will not be Mastered by anything so when God points out something something in your life that kind of irritates you and Pastor holds it up lowkey triggers you could it be because it's mastered you when you need peace you run to the hookah hooker when you need Joy you run here when you're stressed you run here hear me wherever you run is where your God is and God is like okay I got plans for you but the only way you don't allow 2023 struggles to become 2024 sequels is when I point out something that you feel is not that bad and I say okay it's mastered you though and you don't know how much it's mastered you until you try to stop it see that that's it I I could overcome I could stop anytime try it I don't need to prove okay why not everything is not beneficial and you know what's so funny to me for those that are like you know I I don't see no problem with it how would you feel just hypothetically you in there and I come in and I sit right next to you why is that funny I sit right next to you and I'm like man what flavor is this you would possibly feel some type of way or it might be hard for you to digest this word that I'm giving you when I'm doing similar activity as you and I never understood it why do we expect another level of Holiness from leaders than from anybody who's a Christian okay we going to deal with that later you see how quiet it's getting okay we're going to deal with that later let's let's check out our foundational text John chap 10 verse 2 if you're ready shot I'm ready I'm ready but he this is Jesus he who enters by the door is The Shepherd of the sheep to him the gatekeeper opens the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own Sheep by name this means you are not an acquaintance to me we are intimate I know you by name if you ever feel you're listening to a sermon and God is talking to you directly you be like Jerry you were all in my mail you were all Jerry wasn't in anything because Jerry's just an instrument if God doesn't breathe through me I'll be up here looking like a babbling idiot if God doesn't breathe through me I'm not an instrument I'm an influencer if God doesn't play on those keys the keys do nothing but as soon as he starts to play it then you hear what was on the inside of those keys all along so it's not that I'm reading your mail it's not that I know what you're struggling with it's not that I'm putting you on Front Street we haven't had no conversation Jerry doesn't use your flaws as sermon content I can't say that for every pastor but I don't do that but if you ever feel like God is talking directly to you that feeling when your ears are getting hot Palms start start to sweat clenching your teeth a little bit it's because God knows his sheep personally knows them by name and look look at this and leads them out when he has brought out all his own he goes before them he goes before them don't miss that he goes before them and the Sheep follow him why for they know his voice it says he goes before them what's so profound about that sheep are Jesus Le Jesus goes before you because true sheep are led by the Good Shepherd verse five a stranger they will not follow I have to exy these passages where we'll fully get them a stranger they will not follow but they will flee from from him for they do not know the voice of strangers we broke down the word know is often interchangeable with Intimacy in the Bible he knew her and she bore him a son he laid with her and knew her and she became pregnant depart from me ye workers of iniquity I never knew you so he's speaking of intimacy so sheep are not intimate with strangers and the only way a stranger can sound strange is you must have been intimate with a voice because if I have no familiar voice every voice sounds strange right so for they do not know the voice of strangers this figure of speech Jesus used with them but they did not understand what he was saying to them so Jesus again said to them truly truly I say to you I am the door of the sheep all who came before me are thieves and robbers but the Sheep somebody shout sheep sheep I said shout sheep sheep but the Sheep did not listen to them okay who went before them went before Jesus who are robbers false prophets false teachers why are they thieves they're trying to steal my glory and steal your discernment so when will and I were tag teaching this series and we did a whole message entitled beware of false prophets we should talk about it because Jesus talked about it he's saying right here sheep don't listen to false prophets you're not going to catch sheep binging sermons from false teachers I'm not making YouTube videos about false teachers why cuz I don't listen to them yeah is this making sense he's saying right here sheep do not listen to them because I listen to the voice of my shepherd I am the door if anyone enters by me he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture the thief though the thief comes only to steal kill and destroy but I came I came that we may have life that day who is day the Sheep the followers of Jesus I came so that my children won't just have life but have life somebody talk to me more abundantly somebody say Abundant Life he saiding I came so that you might have life and have life more abundantly I don't want you to this these six pillars these six components these six pillars throughout this whole part of John chapter 10 when Jesus is having this conversation with his mentees which are his disciples he's trying to get them to get something very clear if you could put this chart up I want you to see it these six pillars y'all say it with me first thing is what second is what third fourth fifth follow six if you read that study the Gospel of John chapter 10 you'll see it's a constant mention of sheep voices stranger I need you to really understand if you follow it's because you're sheep and because you want the Abundant Life so I want to break all of these down so that we can get it clear the shepherd is Jesus Jesus is saying listen I'm the true Shepherd I'm the one that makes you lie down in Green Pastures I'm the one that restoreth your soul I'm the one that keeps you to have sanity I'm the one that the reason why you're no longer on a strip a pole I'm the reason why you're not high outside of your mind I'm the reason why you still have life I'm the reason why you still have oxygen I'm the reason why you still have pulse not the universe not the Universe I am the Good Shepherd I'm the door no man gets to the father except through me not through confucious not through Buddha not through Allah it comes through me have to first start with me and then after Shepherd we have voices so I needed to get this there are really two voices all voices are either endorsed and inspired by the she Shepherd or or they're endorsed and inspired by that stranger the thoughts that you have about you they thoughts that have been inspired and endorsed by the shepherd or the thoughts that have been endorsed and supported by the stranger because I can't believe what the shepherd says and what the stranger says at the at the same time there are no neutral relationships stop it stop it either this relationship was endorsed by the shepherd or this relationship was endorsed by The Stranger is this making sense yes so when I brought out the hooker could you really say I'm going to the hooker bar because I'm Shepherd L to do so my shepherd led me the text says they follow him the shepherd oh y'all should see y'all faces it's okay we good all right the next one is stranger that's that Thief that comes to kill steal and destroy and his main methoda of how he destroys is through discussions through disc discussions first time we see that old serpent in the Bible he's having a discussion with Eve he deceives through conversation so that your that he can contaminate your decisions he deceives through discussions so he can contaminate your decisions the devil knows if I can get them to make decisions based on their flesh I don't have to kill steal and destroy anything from their life their routine is going to do that they pattern's going to do that her type is going to do that his type is going to do that I don't have to bother them they killing stealing and destroying for themselves some of us are rebuking the devil when you really should be be rebuking you that person looking at you back in the mirror us should say I rebuke you in the name of Jesus the devil's like I'm not bothering you your patterns are bothering you your routines are bothering you he comes so that he could kill steal and destroy he wants to get us to engage in what I call Soul poisoning Soul poisoning what is that that's when you are consuming stuff that God left out so good God left out that relationship on purpose for your purpose remember he has a flight plan and he knew that's hazardous material for your next yeah so I left that out on purpose just like you would experience food poisoning if you left something out too long we experience Soul poisoning when we try to consume stuff that God left out something just ain't sitting right something just I don't know what it is something just feel off you are experiencing spiritual nauseousness your spirit is about to vomit something that God has said that's old that has expired that false Comfort oh that's expired we got this thing so backwards we think that all comfort comes from God and all discomfort comes from the devil when it's actually God that will give you discomfort so you'll change God will give you discomfort so that you'll change God the enemy will give you false comfort so that you'll stay the same so God hands out crosses because I need you to crucify your flesh along with your passions and desires yeah it it's just so difficult okay purpose stretches you Jesus showed us that on the cross this is what purpose does it stretches you amen what that stranger wants you to do is label the stretching as stressing I can't do all that that's stretch stressing me out or is it stretching you out because purpose stretches you somebody say stranger stranger now sheep sheep are the ones that know the voice of their Shepherd due to intimacy and they don't go places the shepherd didn't lead them sheep sheep I know my God's voice so the fifth one I follow him what does it mean to follow follow means to trust God's plans are better than yours I trust that God's plans are better than mine so I follow his leading see some of us we keep saying that I have so much anxiety but really often times anxiety is really control issues playing dress up that it's not that the future is causing for you to have so much anxiety it's your obsession with controlling it that is I want to control how they think about me I want to control my platform I want to control the growth of it I want to control them to change loving somebody harder won't make them change you can't give somebody more of what they already don't appreciate somebody said that part maybe your anxiety is so high because your control issues are so high you're trying to take on God weight but you're not strong enough to carry what God can carry so just so that we can get this clear I want you to see what are what what are God's responsibilities okay God controls number one the outcome number two the door number three the change and number four the width I'm trying to free somebody from anxiety right now what does god control the outcome not you you can grind as hard as you want to grind but God still controls the outcome you can spend thousands of dollars on marketing but God still controls the door if God doesn't want it to open it's not opening you will go in debt trying to open a door that God is saying that's not your room he controls the door he controls if somebody changes I correct people often times Jerry your ministry is changed my life God did that cuz people will cause for you to be an idol if you let them I won't let them do that to me you will never idolize your pastor I'm a flawed imperfect man that needs Jesus just like you change of your spouse of your baay some of us need but anyway I'm going leave that Al till next Ser change of your spouse of your baay your boo whatever that's God's job so watch this if they don't know God somebody you need to come up here and preach girl they can't change so you're asking God to change somebody who is not a sheep and so you know what you end up doing shepher dating you try to lead them because you think I could change them where really this is the ingredients of being a narcissist because when you can't change them you try to control them and then if they leave I then try to control how people see them this is so good God controls the outcome the door the change the width that's how far something reaches how far something goes God controls that now let me help you see what you control so you can fully understand this you control number one your obedience I know right you control your obedience number two you control your effort efor number three you control your posture and lastly you control your Excellence that that's what you control you can control if you're going to obey or not you can control your effort that's the only part that's the only part of a grind that you have is your grind that's it your effort you control your posture are you a cheerful Giver yes L do you have a ratchet attitude can anybody tell that you love Jesus do you always walk around like something stank does your does your anger shift Zer to 100 real quick or do you have self-control where you're patient Holy Spirit help me my patience he'll help you but you have to also participate and Your Excellence whatever God gave you be excellent with it he has giv you enough right now to do what you need to do right now don't feel as though you don't have enough work with what you have until you have enough because if I could trust you a little then I could trust you with more when I was changing Sant to and vacuum in the sanctuary 10 years ago God was teaching me excellence and I hated it getting seen tile all in my hair and people would leave chips and stuff under the Pew and I'm cleaning getting gum I hated it we ain't even talking about the restrooms I'm like brothers are y'all aiming at all ladies too [Applause] o don't sleep but what was God building in me character integrity and Excellence excellent with it lastly the this is where we're going to park for the rest of the time that we have together for this shanic journey the Abundant Life what is that that's God's desired will for you to experience that you will walk into when you hear his voice and obey his word put the chart back up for me guys the Abundant Life that's the part verse 10 when Jesus says listen that Thief he's coming to kill steal Ste and Destroy but I came so that you could have life not just life but you could have it more abundantly that's God's desired will for you and I to experience the Abundant Life and this is what I'm noticing about Jesus as I was looking at this the Abundant Life I said man God always likes to level up stuff like you're not just going to have life let me level that up I'm going to make you have Abundant Life I'm the God who traffics in abundant I I'm not just going to cause you to be blessed I'm going level that up you're going to be blessed and highly favored you're going to be blessed in your going and you're going to be blessed in your coming you're going to be blessed in the field and you're going to be blessed in the city why is he saying that this means the blessing is not where you are it's on your life stop thinking well if I do this and if I go here the blessing's on you I'm going level that up you you're not just going to be anointed let me level that up you're going to be anointed and appointed I traffic in the Abundant you're not just going to be a conqueror I'm trying to so no I'm going to let the preach go today you're not just going to be a conqueror let me level that up you're going to be more than a conqueror see when you win one time you're called a winner but when you win over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over you're called not just a conqueror you're more than a conqueror to be more than a conqueror this means winning is a lifestyle not an incident this when I say winning I mean I'm winning and overcoming the things that I have been given the oil to overcome winning becomes my normal when I am a old Overcomer this is what God is Desiring for you and I to be more than conquerors I want you to go to the next level but that Thief is going to do everything he can to put purpose crippling materials in the carryon of your soul why so that you can stay stuck in recovery let's speak around this thought from this subject for the finale of this series no more recovery Seasons no more recovery Seasons somebody say no more no more no more recovery Seasons Jesus says listen I came so that you might have life can we talk y'all y'all didn't say nothing can we talk y'all okay so this is what I want us to get the devil doesn't care if you have a life he just doesn't wants you to have that life I'm going to let Mr preach go today I'm sorry I'm going to let him go the enemy doesn't care and we're not threat to hell if we have a life we only become a threat to Hell once we have that life and what is that life it's the Abundant Life Life The King's Way Abundant Life is when you're walking around with a spiritual awareness Abundant Life Abundant Life is when you know who you are and whose you are Abundant Life Abundant Life is When Heaven is for you but hell fights you Abundant Life Abundant Life is when you're not held hostage by guilt and shame anymore because now I'm held by power and anointing Abundant Life it's when I recognize that God has not given me the spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind I have been given the power to tread on serpents and power to tread on scorpions and nothing by any means shall harm me Abundant Life it's when you recognize that no weapon y'all better come get me today no weapon formed against me shall prosper we just have to make sure we're not listening to voices that has caused us to be the weapon formed against ourself that's made ourself to not Prosper the Abundant Life the Abundant Life is when your prayer and your fast fting makes bullets Go a different direction from your children it makes bullets Go a different direction why because death must respect my purpose it's the Abundant Life the Abundant Life is when through your prayer and fasting you can tell these kind to come out because Jesus told us that there are certain times certain type of demons that only come out by prayer and fasting so when you live a life of prayer and fasting you get another level of Spiritual Authority and the spirit realm that's the Abundant Life the Abundant Life is when you unlock doors that the enemy thought he had bolted it's when the Abundant Life is when you start to confuse the camp of Hell how didn't that divorce take them out I'm confused H how didn't that betrayal take them out I'm confused how didn't that best friend stabbing them in the back not take them out I'm confused how didn't that rejection take them out I'm confused how how did those rumors not distract her she knows she's sensitive how can she just ignore that and be the bigger person I'm confused how was he not sleeping with her I remember in college he used to sleep with everything that walked past but now no man practices Purity in 2023 how is he resisting our spirit of Delilah that we sent his way because the spirit of Delilah prays on strong men how was he able to resist that I'm confused how was she able to resist him I'm confused how are they able to not drink anymore when they used to be an alcoholic in 2015 16 I'm confused why did that layoff distract them I'm confused how are they still praising and they didn't get the position I'm confused how do they still have a praise and they have a negative doctor report I'm confused how is this black man still preaching this hard sweating like that in the last four buildings that he asked God to give them they all fell through how was he still preaching like that I'm confed confused how are they still clapping and worshiping I'm confused it's because my praise and worship is not tied to my situation my praise is tied to who my God is I praise him because he's wonderful I praise him because he's merciful I praise him because he saved me I praise him because he kept me I praise him because he redeemed me I'm not praising him because of what I want I I praise him that he didn't throw me away I praise him that he gave me another chance I praise him that he anointed me to preach and reach my generation let's give God an abundant praise I'm talking about praise him like you want walls to come down praise him to put hell on notice I still got joy I still got compassion I still got Grace I Still Got Confidence I still have mercy I'm not going to allow my situation to stop me I'm going to praise him because I got Abundant Life it's letting hell know you going to get confused because this is not going to stop me my praise is not tied to God's yes my praise is tied to my God period my praise is not tied to what I want my praise is tied to my God period if he does it praise the Lord if he doesn't praise the Lord if he tells me wait praise the Lord if he says go praise the Lord when I wanted and get it praise the Lord when I want it and don't get it praise the Lord God is good even when life isn't Abundant Life that's something to shout about you can't stop my praise I was like you you thought that that was going to discourage me that every single building I asked and I prayed and I believed and I sought God for I recognized if God said no to that it's because he said yes to something else if God said no to that it's because of what he's trying to build to me right here and whatever I got to get right here that I need right here help me get it right here so I don't get right there and mess it up I want to get it right here I want you to have the Abundant Life can I get us to say this confession as loud as you can and everybody watching online put this in the room and all caps for me if you will father father sharpen my ear sharpen my ear so I won't stay pared so I won't stay pared where I'm supposed to pass through I'm supposed to pass through recovery season's over recovery season over one more time father father sharpen my ear sharp my ear so I won't stay part I won't stay part where I'm supposed to pass through I'm supposed to pass through recovery season's over does anybody believe that recovery season is over I'm just trying to articulate to you this simple truth that God told me this week as I Was preparing for this moment Jerry we were not made to bleed for the rest of your life I bled so you don't have to you don't have to bleed when I already bled your blood is not going to save anybody my blood saved everybody so enor my people when they can hear me clearly oh recovery season's over you're not going to make choices that make you stay part because now I could hear Heaven somebody say recovery season's over recover season's over no more recovery season no more recovery season no more recovery season I feel this all in my spirit y'all no more recovery season no more recovery season no more me using a substance to get high when I have been given Abundant Life by the most high recovery season's over recovery season's over recovery season's over no more me behaving my way into seasons and then turning around and trying to rebuke the devil for it recovery season's over recovery season's over this time I'm going to se God's voice before my choice yeah this time I'm not going to rush I'm going trust his timing because I can hear clearly recovery season's over recovery season's over see when recovery season's over it's like it's time over and time is up for you using people or watch this allowing people to use you as their Band-Aid as they're trying to recover from wounds that they got because they don't have a prayer Life One More Time no more using people or allowing people to use you as a Band-Aid as they're trying to recover from wounds that they have created because they don't have a prayer life H unfortunately for many of us we've gotten used to getting used it's like getting used doesn't Shock Me Anymore reciprocity does anybody like getting used that doesn't shock me I understand people want my gift one more time they want stuff from me reciprocity shocks me cuz unfortunately we live in a world that's filled with chronic users who love you as much as they could use you I love how much you let me use you but when I can no longer use you I don't need you recovery season's over recovery season's over recovery season's over that Thief he comes to steal K what is he trying to steal I want to make sure you're never that version of you again remember that that version you were before the divorce that version you were when you were as a child when you didn't care that you didn't match your shirt was yellow and your pants were neon and your your your your shoes were green all you care was I like it that freedom of not caring about likes and follows and platforms I'm like God help us remember we're called to come to the altar not build a platform I got these followers those are not your followers those are God's people no more recovery season no more recovering due to your ambition see this whole I I I'll sleep when I'm dead I'll hustle I hustle every day I'm hustling I'm hustling I'll sleep that's not Kingdom that's not see for those who have that grind mentality I'm going just keep grind I'mma grind I'm a grind I'm a grind I sleep when I did I'm grind I'm grind I never quit what if you have ambition towards something never God wanted you to so now your mindset of I'm never going to quit will cause you to finish something that will finish you maybe you started something that God never wanted you to start no more recovery season no more dating life Wreckers due to me being in love with an idea more than God's will it's it's your idea of what it would be like it's your idea see and God tried to warn you he does he shows you red flags you just like the color red what it do baby he's trying to warn you he's trying to give you wisdom like this quote my brother shared the other day many of us experience has to teach us because wisdom offended you I'm trying to get you to get wisdom okay listen please hear me the beauty of being shepherded is that the shepherd goes before you goes before verse four in our foundational text John chap 10 verse 4 it says when he has brought out all his own he goes before them and the Sheep follow him for they know his voice the beauty of being shepherded is God goes before you see in military there there's a particular position called a point man okay and what this point man does is he goes in front of the in of in front of the Infantry in front of the Baton and he's looking for landmines he's looking where the enemy is he's looking where their adversaries are sometimes certain military would try to kill the point man so that he doesn't go back and reveal the position other times they'll let him go because they don't want to give it away but the job of the point man is to go before so that they could look go back and inform when the Bible says that he goes before us it's like he's a point man don't sign that contract that's not in the best interest of your future no don't marry that that's from your loneliness not your purpose no don't no that church all they going to do is Entertain You to spiritual death they're not going to tell you the truth wow he goes before you is this making sense he's going to go before you to give you wisdom and I understand that many of us missed it myself included yes but here's the goal to turn your wound into wisdom when you don't allow your wound to be wisdom you will now live with multiple injuries and stay stuck in recovery season every time you got hurt you should have got smarter not bitter I ain't never doing men no that that's not it I'm never doing that again I'm like why is everything like there is no Grace for the church I'm Church hurt I'm done with the church I ain't never heard nobody say I'm job hurt [Applause] I'm job her I ain't working no more what you going to I'm be broke for the rest of my life I'm job hurt that food made me sick I ain't eating no more I ain't never hurt it that enemy kill steal and destroy you got hurt by a bad one hopefully that can hurt you so much when you won't look for a good one turn the wound into wisdom I want to take you to another level please hear me what God is trying to get us to understand I want you to come to me not just because you need surgery I could do more than just put you back together I can keep you together through discernment I love you I will restore you I can restore the year that the canker worm has stolen that doesn't mean I'm going to add more time to your life that means what I'm going to do with the time you have now I'm going to do it so expeditiously where it's going to feel as though that season never existed but I'm more than just a surgeon I'm more than the god that just puts you back together I'm also the god that helps you avoid things that can leave you broken okay I want to show you this in the Bible because y'all look kind of cray cray all right wisdom goes before you I want you to see this Proverbs chapter 8 verse one it says does not wisdom cry out and understanding lift up her voice she takes her stand notice the position at the top of the high heel besides the way where the paths meet notice what the Bible is saying wisdom is at the high heel why so you can hear me wisdom is at the place where paths meet why because every day of our life wisdom and Chaos shows up at our doorpost in the form of choices every day every single day when you leave here wisdom and Chaos are both going to show up wisdom and rature are both going to show up Spirit Le and flesh are both going to show up but wisdom is saying I'm right there before you choose are y'all seeing this she cries out by the gate at the entrance of the city at the entrance of the doors why is she not at the exit because she's before you go in Shepherd before wisdom is before you make the decision go down a few more verses verse 34 Proverbs chapter 8 verse 34 it says blessed are those who listen to me watching daily at my door waiting at my doorway for those who find for those who find me find life and receive favor from the Lord watch this but those who fail to find me harm themselves and all who hate me love death hate when they correct me you love pain hate all of my business you love pain why you looking at me like that right here in the text if you find me if you those who don't find me harm themselves what does that mean you will be in recovery season after recovery season after recovery season when you have a wisdom deficiency the reason some of us are here right now is because of pain and God is teaching you through the pain so you w to be right here again November of 2024 this making sense God does not give you classes to keep you stuck he gives you classes so you can graduate but he's not like the American school system he won't pass you if you can't read y'all laughing I'm serious you don't get this you're staying here you failed the test I love you here it is again I'm not switching up the answers it's the same answers same questions you you know why you take notes it's because you going to be tested and when you are tested you can have an open book test no good teacher punishes You by a test I had teachers like that in Westfield High School like y'all too loud y'all too Pop Quiz why you want to fail us God's not like that when he test you he gave you the answers already covery season is over we must know God's voice for these three reasons reasons why must we know God's voice why were we here for 14 weeks it's because number one life is filled with demonic traps and God moments that's why why must you pray because prayer exposes hooks he fine huh there's a hook in them she fine huh there's a hook in her you just go on a happy hour now you're hooked it's a hook in it prayer will show you beyond the bait there's a hook in it because life is filled with demonic traps and God moments what is that demonic traps are ambushes from the camp of Hell dressed up like an opportunity that's designed to kill and steal and destroy from your life that is a demonic it's a ambush from the camp of hell that looks like like an opportunity what does that mean it's going to look like God it's going to look like an answered prayer it's going to look like what you've been asking God to do he comes as the angel of the light it's going to look like it's an angel of the light if we are still in a place where the enemy could just show you himself and you still fall for him we need to probably go back to Heart Rehab and 2021 a whole different series you should want the devil to have to think I have to appear to be like God that's demonic traps now what is God moments those are Divine occasions where God gives you a glimpse of your necks and gives you gives you instructions about your necks right now that's a God moment it's a Divine occasion where God gives you a glimpse that's what dreams are are that that's a that's a snapshot of your coming Harvest if you faint not when it's for my glory not from your aition though Bible all day Moses at the burning bush what was that it was a God moment God giving him a glimpse and instructions about his next while he's still in his now God telling Abraham leave your father's house and I'm going to bless you and make you a great nation what was that that was the God moment God was giving him a glimpse and instructions about your next while you're still in your now Jesus interrupting the disciples while they're fishing and cleaning their Nets saying hey y'all been fishing all night y'all ain't catch nothing okay follow me I'll make you fishes of men what was that a God moment God giving you a glimpse of your next while you're still in your now this series for a lot of us has been a God moment God giving you a glimpse and instructions I'm telling you prophetically you about to have a lot of doors and options come before you in the next few months and this is going to be a note revealing time for you because you're going to recognize anything that takes me further from God is not from God I learned that in part two of voices what is God doing right now he's giving you instructions about your next can we go a little deeper okay so God's like all right I have a flight that that's your next but this this this hooker we we talked about it for you no that that that can't go that can't go what I'm about to do in your life you can't love money this is fake by the way I'm like hey bro this is fake you will go to jail if you try to use this you you you can't love money I understand that money is a means of a trade for where you live but you can't love it you'll lie for it hurt people for it embezzle for it take advantage of people your whole business is built on lies where you can get more money okay let me give you a Bible CU yall looking like what okay first Timothy chap 6 verse 10 it says For the Love of money is a root of all kinds of evil some people eager for money have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs you know what that is recovery SE recovery sear so your your love for money can't do that next level because you won't preach if your honorar is not big enough you won't serve if it doesn't make you a profit can't love money for where I'm about to take you I love you so much that I won't let you elevate until I get rid of everything that has contaminated your soul okay well what else you got up in there Pastor how about this why somebody whistle yeah you popping bottles turning up I I I need you to have sobriety for where I'm taking you I don't know that pass Jesus turn water and the wine you say I don't know okay let's look at the Bible just we can get some understanding on it proverbs 23: 31 it sayso not gaze at wine when it's red when it sparkles in a cup when it goes down smoothly in the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a Viper your eyes will see strange and your mind will imagine confusing things y'all didn't know this was in the Bible you will be like one sleeping on the high seed lying on top of the Riggins they hit me you would say but I'm not hurt they beat me but I don't feel it you sound crazy okay when will I wake up so I can find another drink let's read this in The Message Bible this one was really good I said yeah we going we going to read that one The Message Bible says who are people who are always crying the Blues who do you know who reeks of self-pity who keeps getting beaten up for no reason at all whose eyes are blury and bloodshot it's those who spend the night with the bottle for whom drinking is Serious Business don't judge wine by its label or by its Boutique or its fully bodied flavor judge it rather by The Hangover it leaves you with the splitting headache and the queasy stomach do you really prefer seeing double with your Fe all slurred reeling and seasick drunk as a slil as a sailor they hit me you'll say but it didn't hurt they beat on me but I didn't feel a thing when I'm sober enough to manage it bring me another drink yeah but they do it I ain't talking about them I'm talking about you stop comparing ing your obedience to somebody else's Rebellion their life is not your standard Jesus is please hear me Jesus is the standard you will not hit it but that's why I'm aiming it's like for you you got to be sober because I'm going have to trust you with too many major decisions and you can't be making major decisions drunk so that for you n all right for you bro really my dude really this don't protect you from strongholds this doesn't this doesn't protect you from insomnia because you're worried about what's going to happen now that you did this this doesn't protect your Covenant how can you carry this in your wallet but you can't carry the cross that I gave you and now this just happened to me I don't know if there any girls out here like this I had a girl one day in college give me the condom I was talking to her in the club and she was like so what you trying to do and I'm thinking you you NASCAR just fast I was turned off I said let me uh let me let me get back at you bro hey what happened to that one girl she quick though cuz if you are prepared for any random person on whatever I got to do to give my generation to get it whatever I got to do you will spend money spend money on a whole album get cursed out the whole time like you are paying $9.99 to get cursed out and then wonder why when you're angry you can't stop cursing this isn't legalism this is where I'm taking you this this is where I'm taking you I have to deal with the carryon of your soul why because I won't let you bored with hazardous material if you've ever been on a plane and you've been there and they checking your bag and everybody's going before you you're like man they didn't check their bag they didn't check their bag sometimes God doesn't let you get away with it no you going to get convicted icted you going to get caught you going to get exposed you your calling is too necessary life is filled with God moments and demonic traps number three why we must why must we hear God's voice so that the thief can't steal anymore the thief can't steal anymore you know how Satan really steals from us I'm going to deal with this all in the new series he steals time how does he steal Time by Cycles Satan can't create all he could do is imitate I can't construct your tomorrow but if I can construct a cycle get you trapped in it your cycle will construct your tomorrow I get you to waste your life by stealing and killing your time I want to get you young and get you to suffer so that you're too old to do what it is that I'm trying to tell you to do right now because you don't have the strength and you don't believe anymore because he Ste he stole so much time tries to steal time whatever God gives you is for you for you to use for his glory and for you to keep it Romans chap 11 verse 20 29 says for the gifts and callings of God are without repentance without repentance that means God doesn't change his mind about your calling even if you don't obey it I want you to remember this whatever God gives He blesses whatever the devil gives he repossesses he takes it five points and we're done how do I avoid recovery season number one God first first living God first living that's when I allow Jesus to go before me I seek his face I pray every decision this is why he says in all your ways acknowledge me because many demonic traps are going to look like me God first living this is how you avoid recovery Seasons number two how do you avoid recovery Seasons be a student of scripture I have to say this church the same Bible that tells you to pray is the same Bible that tells you to study why you highlight one verse more than the other but that's my job no it's yours too why 1 Timothy 4:1 now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true Faith listen they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that came from demons you study so I could recognize the voice of my shepherd number three how do I avoid recovery Seasons I don't feel significant from anything that could burn corrode fade or age I don't feel significant from anything that could burn corrode fade our age simply put nothing in this world defies me nothing in this world has my hope hope nothing in this world made me so nothing in this world can Define me 1 John 2:1 15 do not love this world nor the things it offers you for when you love the world you do not have the love of the father in you for the world offers only cravings for physical pleasure a craving for everything we see and pride in our achievements and possessions these are not from the father but are from this world and this world is fading away along with everything that people crave but anyone who does what God pleases will live forever so I don't feel significant about anything on this life number four how do I avoid recovery Seasons I flee from flesh based relationships it's based in flesh flesh bbased bonds are doorways to recovery Seasons some of us just keeping in a buck with you if you removed to sex you and your boyfri have nothing in common nothing at all steal kill destroy I want you to marry for a sexual experience rather than a purposeful Union amen you're so trapped by how they make you feel that you don't see I'm really killing something from your life flesh based y'all understand by flesh based right do I have to go deep okay flesh based Galatians chapter 6 ver 7 yes just keep going please all right do not be deceived God cannot be mocked listen y'all a man reaps what he SWS whatever whenever he SWS to please their flesh from that flesh will reap destruction whoever SWS to please the spirit from that spirit will reap eternal life you're going to end up in recovery seasons for your whole life when you live based on your flesh the flesh will kill you it only craves death get how it get this is the order sin death sin death understand that's the math sin plus sin equals Death I don't know why pastors are afraid to preach this because of what people think I'm like you got to give account to God sir flesh- based relationships and lastly we're done series is finished don't procrastinate don't procrastinate when you hear God's voice do it immediately remember Samuel he ran remember we talked about that he ran when he thought he heard Eli calling him don't procrastinate you wouldn't be here if I did and I'm just one flawed and perfect man procrastination causes for us to live in a graveyard of unexperienced blessings that have been eulogized by our excuses I don't care that it's already almost 2024 what did God tell you to do start today start today you never know how swiftly you need to respond because of how desperate is needed it's teaching Melody this somebody Rings a doorbell come get Daddy come get Mommy her H and come get us cuz you don't know how swiftly I might need to be informed of it God's been ringing our doorbell all year when you going to answer it when you going to answer it it's knocking the day you hear my voice Harden not your heart he's not going to come in unless you invite him that's the difference between God and the devil the Devil comes in wherever there's a little crack and an open door he slides on in God I come in by invitation what is it that God has been trying to tell you have 14 sermons that you can go back and you can listen to for the purpose of this I need to know God's voice for myself I have to answer the call so I can live in my calling and lastly I don't want to recover anymore is there anybody that's there I don't I don't want to recover anymore I want to advance I want to grow so father thank you for conviction thank you for allowing us to be able to hear clearly that that we must be people who are led by Our Shepherd as we're living in the last days God it's dangerous for us to not know prophetically what you're saying forgive us for making us think that we have more time than we really do tomorrow is not promised we're not saying that out of out of a fear tactic we're saying that out of what your word said life is like a ve here today go on the next and we want to take this moment seriously God speak to us sharpen our ears so that we don't stay parked in places we're supposed to pass through recovery season's over in Jesus name we pray amen