[Music] God says I'm not moving until you get so upset with your circumstance that you're willing to cry out and when you call on me I will answer praise God for all of our campus is being open today Lighthouse West Lighthouse Southeast lighthouse South and here on the north campus um Joshua chapter 9 I want to read I want to read uh verses 1-6 and I'm going to read this in a new English translation then I'm going to read verse 24 25 and 26 and we'll begin what the Lord wants us to talk about if you're ready say go when the news reached all the kings on the west side of Jordan in the Hill Country the lowlands and all along the Mediterranean Coast as far as Lebanon including the Hittites the amorites the Canaanites the perizzites the hivites and the jebusites they formed an alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel the first thing I want you to see is look at how many people it took to fight one one people this is this is how powerful you are that the enemy is going to start to recruit and connect to destroy you and what you got to understand about the Hittites the amorites the Canaanites the perizzites the hivites and the jebusites they they don't like each other either but you're so powerful that people who don't like each other are going to have to temporarily like each other because the anointing on your life is so powerful it's going to take all of Hell to destroy you and that still won't work look at verse three when the residents of gibian heard what Joshua did to Jericho and AI they did something clever they collected some Provisions listen to this very carefully and put on worn out sacks on the donkeys along with worn out wine skins that were ripped and patched they had worn out patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn out clothes all their bread was dry and hard verse 6 they came to Joshua at the camp in gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel we have come from a distant land make a deal with us make a treaty with us all right you got that part yeah go to verse 24 the Bible says in verse 24 it says and they said to Joshua it was carefully reported to your subjects how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you because of you we were terrified we would lose our lives so we did this thing so now we are in your power do to us what you think is good and appropriate Joshua did as they said and he kept the Israelites from killing them I'm going to EXP explain what just took place but just in case you're asleep by the end of the sermon what just took place is there a group of people who were living in Canaan God said that the land belonged to Israel so anybody who stayed longer than they were allowed to stay had to die because what God has for you is for you and whatever has to happen to anybody who tries to assume what God gave you God will deal with them and and and so the Bible says that the Israelites who had every right to kill them and they said do to us whatever you will do to us because whatever punishment you give us we deserve they didn't act out of anger they acted out of the anointing and they spared their lives where death was deserved and the Bible says that as a result of that God made them their slaves see sometimes you have to leave your enemies alone alive so they can work for you if you kill everybody who don't like you you going to have to do the work yourself God is using the people who don't like you to do the work that you don't want to do I want to talk to you on this subject it's going to be a hard subject today and a lot of you all have been through this but the Lord told me to show you how to deal with deception this is what we're going to talk about over the next few moments dealing with deception because you're coming into a season in your life where you don't know the rules on the level you're going to you you don't know the rules when you go through that portal and you get to the next Dimension you don't know what to do when you got $10 million in the bank you know you know how to file your taxes when you go to H&R Block but you don't know how to file your taxes when you got $10 million and 1099 that's a different game talk to me somebody and I'm getting ready to show you that you have you can't listen you got to get ready for the level you're going to because if you get to that next level and you take these methods with you they going to kick you out you don't go to a board table a boardroom talking like you at a water cooler somebody shout I'm going to the next level now if if I am in the room and if you're online and you're watching me and you believe that God has assigned you to a different dimension let me hear some noise [Applause] and how many of you all will agree that when you go to new rooms and new levels you don't always know what to do when you get there how many of y'all ready for some new information give an neighbor high five before you sit down and tell them you going to learn to deal with this you may be seated in the presence of the Lord how many of youall ready for a word today so recently well first of all let me tell y'all I'm cheap okay I'm just going to tell you right now I mean if I see a quarter I'm picking it up I don't I listen all you rich people that's passing up all these pennies and quarters on the ground I got a I got a a jug of change cuz I ain't I ain't giving up nothing okay and and I I know you you rich and you Lord ad no sorrow and all that kind of stuff but but but cents makes dollars right so I count I count it all there I ain't never going to have enough in fact I got my uh credit card set on an alert anytime more than $25 get spent I get a text M yep $25 I I've been thinking about lowering it to 10 see cuz enemy steals little by little y'all laughing but if somebody steal $10 from you every day you going to be hit so I got my little alerts on the other day I get this this alert on my on my uh credit card and it wasn't little it was it was thousands of dollars that I know I thought I didn't spend so I called Destiny on the phone I said Destiny uh what you doing with my credit card cuz I just got a charge for all these thousands of dollars and I ain't I ain't spent no money today so so what's going on she said man of God I ain't did nothing either I said I tell you what I'm going to call the people how many of y'all I I use that 1800 number on the back of that car oh yes they going to hear from me so I called them and I said he uh they said hey Mr Henderson how can we help you I said uh I I see a charge on my card that I didn't make and and I don't recognize the the amount nor do I recognize the merchant so so y'all going to have to give me my money back cuz I ain't spending I don't want no foolishness out of y'all I want my money I'm not going to be held responsible she she did some research and she said Mr Henderson you've been with us for 15 years don't worry about it we going to find it out she said said have you ever heard of such and such I said yeah she said and did you go to such and such and do this I said why you asking what I didn't realize is that the company came up under a different name yes on the merchant account not the name that they do business as see the company was DBA do they did business as the company that I but the parent company was different and so the charges they were mine I said to the lady I said oh Ma'am I'm so sorry that that I bothered you with this I just I just didn't know but but then I traced it back and realized that because we live in such a distrustful world that I was victimized by the way we all live every day cu the truth is you can't trust nothing and and you rarely can trust anybody I mean with with the way this world is going right now you don't know what's real or faith it you know you you can get an email right now right now that looks like it represents the company the email the the social media account and you go and put your password in and they got you how many of y'all have been hit up by some page posing to be me my dearest brother I'm praying for you and if you send me $1,000 right now cuz I'm stuck in Africa let me tell you something if I get stuck in Africa $1,000 is not going to get me home I would never come to your direct message and ask you for anything but we live in such um a distrustful deceptive world that you don't know what to you I I was watching uh looking at Instagram the other day and Tik a Tik Tok came up and somebody put up a post and said uh look at this new roller coaster in The Galleria and I know I had just been over there and and I thought to myself dang they put that thing up fast where a skating rink go where the ice ring so so so then I start reading the comments and comment said yeah this a Houston almost got me because people are so deceptive our kids right now still hold to the fact that during covid the zoo in Chicago opened up and all the animals took over the streets of Chicago and let me tell you something there are a lot of cities that animals can take over but Chicago ain't one of them I'm from there I'm going tell you right now a lion don't stand a chance against no gangster disciple it just ain't going to happen not in Englewood either so so but we live in a deceptive world you don't even know what to believe on the news I I was just watching um some some person online talking about the fact that this President didn't do this and that President didn't do that and the truth is don't none of them do all what they say they going to do okay right and I'm going to say this and it's going to be controversial but I I I feel that it's very deceptive that we can live in a nation where a black man can have one felony and can't [Applause] vote but a white man can have 34 and run for president now you can you can say whatever you want it ain't about color it's just about right and and I know what they're going to say it's trumped up charges and it might not be real but let me tell you it's a lot of black men in jail right now for trumped up charges that ain't real touch your name and say run tell that I I I think I think I think the world I think there are so many things that are deceptive right you don't even know what to eat no more yes you don't know if it's real food you don't know if it's fake and and and the commercials are even deceptive they'll tell you oh take this pill and it's going to deal with the disease and and you're going to live 30 more years and then here come a little fast talk but you might die tomorrow and your sister going to get cancer just deceptive drink this organ IC drink so you can be healthy side note it got felhide in it which is used to preserve the dead you can't trust nothing well we going to get rid of fossil fuels and we going to get electric cars and it's going to be the wave of the future now they're telling you that electric cars are giving off radiations and and waves and and you're catching cancer while you don't know what to believe right this week we got a sale we going we going we going to put these shoes and these purses and these shirts and these belts on sale but what they didn't tell you is that they raised the price up and then discounted it to what they wanted to sell you oh you going to be in a line on Black Friday to get a television for $100 but what they didn't tell you is they took everything out the TV and just gave you a screen and now you watching an analog television you this water this water that water is all alkaline is it and what do that mean anyway okay how you alkaline water I'm sure it's a way to do it but what that mean am I supposed to drink spring water mineral water alkaline water I know I I grew up drinking out of the water Hol and I'm still here oh y see y'all young folk don't know nothing about that let me put you on game we didn't get to run in and out of the house like y'all did once we went outside we had to stay outside because if we came inside we weren't going to be able to go outside and if you got thirsty wasn't no Capri son it was a water hose right under you tastes like Steel and we still here these kids got bottled waters with their name on it and they have drink it do you know how much of a whooping you deserve if you don't drink your whole bottle of water I rebuke you if you leave a half open bottle of water in my house and wasn't no many cup she got one cup she wrote your name on it if you going to get something you better use that cup you don't know what to believe you don't know you don't know what to believe cuz the whole world is full of deception I was the storm came and we had all these trees fly on our house and we had roof damage and all kind of stuff and um call the insurance company to get oh I'm going to talk about it I'm going to talk about it cuz you got this deductible you know you got this deductible but what what they don't tell tell you is when it's an act of God then it's a percentage on the price of the house so they got it set where they don't ever have to pay you oh and by the way if they do have to pay you they can drop you just deceptive listen y'all better get you some citizenship somewhere else and I ain't talking about another continent I'm talking about another place the kingdom of God cuz when this old Earthly Tabernacle shall dissolve I got to another building not made by hand Eternal in the [Music] heavens you don't you don't know what to believe they ain't tell you that when you got that bank loan that that for the first 15 years you going to be doing interest yes sir and and you going to put all that money in the house and you going to be like I've been paying for this house for 15 years I got equity and then you go check the statement you got $12 in equity and you going pay pay 12 million in interest cuz the man with the money leaves with the experience and the man with the experience leaves with the money this this listen I I hope I well I hope I am scaring you because this this this world has a principality that rules the air yes sir and and and it is such a deceptive game is such a deceptive world and the same thing is true in the realm of the spirit yes sir the Bible says in 1 Timothy 4:1 now the spirit says that in latter times some will depart from the Faith by devoting themselves to deceitful Spirits did you know that deceit is a spirit there are people in this room and people online and people in your life and people you're in relationship with you can't put your finger on it let me help you identify it it's a deceitful spirit it's the kind of spirit that comes smiling but it actually has a knife in his hand it's the kind of the spirit that comes and tells you I got your back but when you look back there'll be way back it's the kind of spirit that tells you that they'll be praying for you but they'll really be praying on you how many of you know you can't put your finger on it but you feel something uneasy there's some deceitful spirits around you got to be careful who you call your friend you got to be careful who you tell your business to you got to be careful Who You're vulnerable with you got to be careful who you share your secrets with because you could be in the presence of a deceitful Spirit do me a favor and just ask your neighbor to your left and your right and say what kind of spirit do you have what kind of spirit do you have if you got a greedy spirit I got that too cuz I like to eat if if you got a A skeptical spirit I got that one too cuz I don't but I can't sit next to nobody who got a deceitful Spirit ask them what kind of spirit do you have it's deceit if somebody asked me the other day when when you die what do you want to be remembered for I want to be remembered as a man who could be trusted if you never like the way I preach if you didn't like my boldness if you didn't like the way I sung all of that is fine but you will never say I betrayed you you will never say that you couldn't trust me you can trust me to tell you the truth even if you don't want to hear it because you should be able to trust people you in relationship with are y'all listening to me I'm going to preach in a minute but I'm trying to get you to understand that that we are in the midst of a deceitful time and deception is all around us Revelation 12 says and the Great Dragon was thrown down that ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan the deceiver of the whole world he has thrown down to earth and his angels have gone down with him because when deceit starts to take place you'll find deceitful people looking for deceitful people so they they can be deceptive and you'll find yourself surrounded by a deceitful group and everybody around you is trying to figure out what they can get from you and everybody around you is trying to figure out how they can one up you and everybody around you is trying to figure out how they can run game on you but I came today to show you how to deal with deception because what God is getting ready to do in your life you're going to have to learn to see the devil before he gets to your house oh I want to talk somebody give yourself a high five and say God show me my enemies show show me my deceptor show me my defect show me the people who mean me no good I don't have time to be fighting this enemy and that enemy I got to press toward the mark for the prize of the upper call Lord show me who's for me and who's against me I hate when people pretend I I can't stand when people pretend to like me I know you don't like me truth is ain't no sense of you pretending to like me cuz I don't like you either and ain't no sense of us around here acting like we like each other you go to your mama house and I'm going go to my house you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone I don't have time for the deception don't hug me and tell me you love me if you don't love me don't kiss me on my forehead and tell me you love me don't tell me you got my back and then I look back and you're not there shut your mouth go your way I'll go M I can't stand deception [Applause] yes I'd rather have no friends than fake friends come here Drake No New Friends y'all not listening here today I would rather be by myself than with somebody who's pretending to like me I like me enough that if you don't I'm still liked I don't know who I'm talking to but I am praying the spirit of deception leaves your house your family and your circle somebody shout no more deception I'mma preach in a minute I'm just trying to find my crew who am I talking to in this place today we right here we over here I got you now let me tell you something though you you can't avoid it just going to have to learn to deal with it in this life you will have trouble you listen you ain't ever going to be so good that every everybody's good to you why did I deserve is all I do is good to people well there are some people who wake up to do bad I I'm I give well some people take I gave them the truth all they could have do see your problem is you expect everybody to do what you would do [Music] you always going to be disappointed when you get something from somebody and you're mad because they didn't give you what you would have gave them you got to learn to accept what people have how many of y'all been deceived before what it what it what it make you want to do what you want to do oh my God she said pow pow pow there's some thugs up in this mud what she said po I I feel safe around people like that though you know how many of y'all ever I mean you gave your you gave all of you away I mean you borrow pieces of somebody else to give somebody a whole person and when it came time to get a withdrawal where you made a deposit got insufficient funds they had nothing to give you anybody in the balcony ever been deceived and you know what the hardest part about deception is when it come from [Music] people when it come from people you did not expect it to come from that make you want to go back to your roots and it make you want to show people I love [Applause] Jesus but I love him cuz he first loved me now the truth is in me dwelleth no good thing I see some of y'all want to act like you're good I just tell your neighbor say I just want to let you know you sitting next to somebody who ain't worth a dime I just want to let you know I I ain't worth a dime cuz if if I go off I go all the way off if I lose my mind I lose all my mind if I tell you where to go I buy your bus fair to get there if I kill you I go to the funeral and ask God to forgive me I ain't got it all am I talking to any crazy [Applause] Saints don't s you should act like oh oh I love you Jesus but I will knock your teeth down your throat on Sunday I know I know who I Pastor y'all ain't fooling me y'all ain't fooling me I see you in the parking lot oh Vacation Bible School was here and I want y'all praise God kdz we we served over 400 kids for free and that's what happens when you give at no cost to the kids it was raining on one of them days Tuesday Wednesday and I was I was standing there and they was backing my car under but they didn't the people didn't know it was me when I tell you them folks was beeping they was hunking the horn but they didn't know it was me see that's I love to see how people act when I ain't around see when I'm around you treat my ushers right but when I ain't around I don't want to sit over there I've been at this church too long to be sitting this far back get here early it don't matter how long you've been in the church it matter what time you showed up at church get here early you don't deserve to be up front cuz you've been here a decade you deserve to be up front cuz you got here at [Applause] nine they ain't got see I I I woke up with a spirit of discont tment today I [Music] see so being deceived is a part of life so you can not avoid it but you do have to learn to deal with it sir Joshua in the history as a general has fought over 13 Wars that have been documented his first and greatest battle was the battle at Jericho you remember it it's when they walked around the wall seven times and seven times on the seventh day they shouted and played the sound of the horn and the walls sir fell down and Joshua saw that Victory and decided that every time he fought a war he would fight the same way so Joshua knew how to fight with swords and he knew how to fight with shields and he knew how to fight with horns but he had finally been elevated to a level where he had a battle he had never fought before and new levels have new devils and you can't fight up here like you fought down there talk to me somebody now he has an enemy who has no swords they have no Shields they have no arrows they have a new weapon deception I I know what to do if you yell at me I can yell back I know what to do if you throw a punch I throw one back I know what to do if you curse me out I curse you back out I know what to do if you if you lie on me I can lie on you but what do you do when your enemy has a weapon and you have no experience cuz you are dealing with some devils that are so cunning and deceptive that you don't currently have the skill set to fight the Devils on the level that you're fighting and here is the problem whenever you stoop down to fight an ignorant person on their level they end up bringing you down to their level and then beating you with experience talk to me the truth is you're going to have to accept the fact that you're not evil enough to win there I I got to preach did you you heard me you heard me thank see you going to have to realize that you're not ignorant enough to fight on that level you don't have enough hatred in your heart to fight that consistent you don't have enough Victory all in your mind to beat somebody that nasty so you going to have to leave him [Applause] alone I know that ain't something you want to hear cuz you think you can beat everybody at everything but you can't beat ignorant at [Music] ignorant some people can stay mad for 30 years you got the holy ghost in your heart you can't win on that level you going to have to fight on another level that's why the Bible says think on these things yes sir can I talk to somebody you're you're not nasty enough to fight in the hog pin I I know you think you can beat everybody at every and I know you got a slick tongue and you got a slick mouth but you can't outs slick oil there there are some people who have been so deceptive and so evil and and and and practice witchcraft so long that if you go down in that level and try to fight them they're going to drag you down and beat you with experience am I helping anybody I said am I helping anybody everybody in here Joshua finally got to a level where he had a war and he didn't have he didn't have experience in it and let me tell you something about the devil this this Joker is cunning like one day one minute he's a roaring lion then the next minute he's coming in the garden like a serpent yes sir and see most of you know what to do with a lion you don't have any idea what to do with a snake what do I mean you know what to do with that boisterous personality you you know what to do cuz you can match them word for word you can put a line of cuss words together that'll make somebody wish they were never born you know what to do you got Twitter fingers you know how to get back and clap back online you know how to do all of that but you don't know what to do when somebody Creeps in your life and acts like a friend you you don't know what to do you know what to do when it's an enemy that cuts you out in traffic you don't know what to do when the devil sends them in the form of a spouse and now he takes advantage of your loneliness and here you are dating your devil and you don't know that you dating your devil and you're walking around here and you have no idea that you are being deceived and now they've got you isolated you don't like your mama your mama don't like you you don't talk to your sisters your sisters don't like you you're not talking to your brothers but you in love for now deceive cuz you're so smart and just because you can open a book don't mean you can read Hearts just cuz you graduated you think you smart cuz you graduated with straight age baby let me tell you something when you get out in this deceptive World your degree don't mean nothing you can graduate sumacum loudy all them loues whatever they is and I'm tell you right now I ain't getting no loues I graduated gladly I graduated barely in the name of Jesus anybody anybody like me let's just clap for all these smart people that everything come easy for oh we so happy for you anybody struggled with math all of your life anybody when they asked you what 4 plus 4 you said I don't know Round of Applause for all you smart people you ain't have to study I can't stand y'all you you know them people they a't have to study it's it easy it's easy well do mine too then if it's so easy how many y'all know them smart people how well let me ask you how many was y'all one of them smart people just everything came easy to get out of my face how many of you misspelled your own name on the test come on and praise God with me let's bless the Lord let's exalt his name together I don't know my name what is it he knew how to overcome the walls he just didn't know how to overcome deception and you you're getting ready to go to another level where you're going to be promoted but you don't know the rules where you going am I talking to anybody Israel has finally come through 400 years of slavery they have come through 40 Years of wandering and they're getting ready to walk right into the promised land and nobody told them that when they get what's theirs somebody's going to try to deceive them out of it if you don't shout today I'm good with it yes sir the devil's going to try to play games with your mind help me Holy Spirit they have finally receive the keys to the front door of Canaan they're bringing in the furniture and they're hanging the drapes and then the victory that they won starts to spread and as much as people pretend to come on they really don't like winners come on come on tell here you are talk about I'm getting married and they like congratulations I'm way pretty in the her you'd be surprised how many people you going to invite to the wedding yeah and they going to talk about your dress they going to talk oh I wouldn't have o i mean she could do what she want but that ain't what I would have chose the Chicken dry they had us waiting in line they didn't have the accommodations right oh those colors they clashed oh look at those bridesmaid dresses those are too short all those is too tight is this your wedding or not oh it's going to be good today it's going to be good today they finally get there and when you finally get there you think everybody going to be happy for you but they not I got a new car I got a new house that's why I I say I say wait till it's old before you tell people you got it I I say I say go on a vacation and then post when you come back I I say date a few years and then tell everybody this my boo cuz because they judging you the whole time anyway but we live in a time right now where people think that you ain't in love unless they po you don't post me oh I'm about yeah I got you bro I got you cuz you ain't posting me so you can't love me because you ain't posting me no I didn't post you because I want everybody in my business I'll post you when I'm sure you going to be post post it y'all Miss what I said I'll post you when you post it I'll I'll I'll post you after we get through an argument and you ain't left yet I'll post you do me a favor do me a favor can you help your boy tell your neighbor unfold your arms he don't care up there just what you mad at I don't care unfold your arms I'm telling the truth the remaining Kings they form an alliance they come together they want to take Israel out here it is time to preach but there's one group called The gibit they said we not taking part in this we're not going to take part in this Hittites jebusites Canaanites y'all do what y'all want to do but the gibian ites we will have no Parton this why watch what they said cuz we heard what God did to the Egyptians when they messed with you oh can I tell you you that the last battle God brought you through was his way of letting your next enemy know they better not mess with you I don't know who I'm preaching to but there is an enemy that was coming for war but because of how God brought you out last time they are not going to attack slap your neighbor say you about to get a break oh oh my God y'all Miss what I just said you about the devil had an attack plan but God is about to block it and your enemies are not going to attack because they see the favor of God on your tell your neighbor you going to survive this one you're going to survive this one you're going to survive this one I promise you you're going to survive this one you will not die in this the enemies you see today you will see no more the enemy is coming in like a flood but God's about to raise up a standard and he's going to put you on the level with they cannot reach you Gib and I said no we we ain't we ain't we don't want no smoke we don't want no smoke we see what God do to your enemies do me a favor just tell your neighbor say you better be my friend cuz the way God be handling my enemies I'm just saying like you you you you better talk nicely to me cuz the the way my life set up I got a God and and he just be taking care of Stu I I don't know about you but I don't worry about my enemies because God say stand still and see the salvation of the Lord I don't know if I got anybody who got that kind of Faith but just tell somebody you you you you you you better be good to me cuz the way God my God he be fighting my battles my God be be taking care of stuff my my God come on talk to me my my God be doing stuff my my my God be making ways out of no ways my God my God makes my enemies my foot stools my God Will Make A Lie help me my God oh God the way my God set up what you meant for evil woo I I'm preaching from experience he'll turn it around for your k [Applause] [Music] God will use your enemy lie as an introduction to your next level there will be people who know you after this that didn't know you before that because all things work together let me stop let me [Applause] stop cuz this was no Shadow sermon I I I had no intention I told myself I said self myself said huh I said go in here and I want you to talk to the people but when I start thinking about what God has done for me when I start think about what my enemies wanted to happen and God Blocked It slap three people to say God Blocked It God Blocked It God Blocked It you ain't got the right neighbor find somebody tell them God Blocked It God Blocked It God Blocked It God Blocked him God Blocked her God Blocked It God Blocked them God [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] somebody say thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you that God is in the blocking business thank God that he's in the blocking business you almost got married but God Blocked It you almost had a child bound but God Blocked It you almost gave him your life God and you know how you know God Blocked it because when God blocks it now you're good with it I'm still your friend I still love you I still want the best for you you ain't a bad person you just want my person do what you got to [Music] [Applause] do that's this but you got to be careful you got to be careful because what what's the name of our subject today dealing with deception you ready all right Louis this is what they they say we don't want we don't want no trouble we don't want no smoke dog we good cuz we don't want no problem we straight in fact your God good yeah and and and and we don't want none of him either in fact to make matters better let us serve you there they go there they go and the Bible says that they will work wly not willingly read the King James version Wy it means that they will work for the purposes of [Music] [Applause] deception well will to make a truce whatever you want us to do we'll do it what you need oh you you need me to babysit what you need you want me to house sit while you out of town what what what what you need I'll do it whatever you need from me I got you back I ain't got nothing but time God assigned me to you watch what they do these Jokers ain't they ain't I'm tell you deception you got to be careful on This Love This Bible says tyone the Bible says that they covered themselves in old sack cloths and then they put old sack cloths on the on the donkeys and then they emptied all the wine out of the bottles and brought empty bottles and then put on their old shoes they got new shoes but they put on old shoes so that when they showed up they look like they needed help yeah [Music] yeah you got to see this deception the Bible says they showed up and they said our bread was warm when we got it out of the oven this morning but now it's hard and dry and look at these clothes we got on they they all worn out and then this one this one I knew they was lying they said look at our shoes our shoes are worn out from the journey and if you don't know how to read deception on this level you'll feel sorry for them but I did my research and found out that they only live 10 mies away from Israel which means the journey wasn't long enough for the shoes to wear out so what they did is they put on old clothes and pretended to be from a place they were not and pretended to be in a condition they were not in so that Israel would lower their defenses so you got to be careful how people walk into your life they come in talking about all my friends just betray me I hope you ain't going to do it either no your friends didn't betray you what they did is they found out who you really were and they left and now you want everybody to believe that everybody who leaves you leaves you because they betrayed you some folk finally found out who you were and now you mad at them because they wouldn't let you manipulate [Music] them there's something about every everybody left you ain't got nobody in your life from 5 years ago I I don't like people who always got new people around them I need some somebody from the hood that knew you back then talk to me somebody somebody who know where your tattoo is somebody who know don't act like you ain't got no tattoo that when you put it there you said well put it here cuz they ain't going to see it you done changeed it three times it used to say something else last year now you done put a flower on top of it it used to say Tyrone now I say try God I mean you [Applause] know oh Tyrone I'm so sorry Erica B do did that to us man it ain't your fault man it's always Tyrone I got to get a new name Tyrese no I can't do that one neither Uncle so that they put on all his old clothes so you can feel sorry for him like they changed outfits so they can change perceptions help me Lord Jesus and they secure to peace treat with him and Gib and I said they were some from a place that they would not put on clothes that that they shouldn't have and now we want to when I read it originally I wanted to blame I really did want to blame the devil I really did I wanted to blame him for using the gibit to do something illicit and immoral I really wanted to blame the devil for making them choose them based on their appearance until I woke up and recognize that it ain't always the devil's fault I woke up and realized that the real problem is is most of us make too many decisions with our eyes I know y'all not going to say man right up and through here but this is the truth you you you make a lot of decisions with your eyes you you you you you like her because of how she how she look oh he just she fine okay I got it I got it she fine she cute I get it dog I get all that you know you know he he got money he he provides look at him if I have a child with him he going to have good hair cuz the people on my side of family oh on act like you be looking looking like a DNA specimen all right he got brown eyes and muscles and Tall so my uncle's short but if I have one with him he'd be average height making all of these decisions with your this is the same problem that the prophet Samuel had when he got to Jesse's house and he was looking for the next king to replace Saul and the Bible says that he went to eliab because elab was pleasing to their eyes and he was taller than everybody else and he almost chose him and then God say see here you go again you about to mess up the whole game because I look not on the countenance of a man but I look at can we get to a place in our lives where we start with the heart before we start with the appearance but here's what messes up a lot of us see you're so used to bad good irritates you I I've heard it I've heard it he too nice okay I need somebody to just rough me up every once in a while then when he do you calling the police come on don't don't don't get quiet look at your boy boy don't look down talk talk to me now don't get quiet tell tell tell that sister look up his father's day nobody scared of you too nice he always happy glass always have full well there's an alternative we're so used to being deceived that we get apprehensive in the presence of clarity yeah hey they they came dressed like they were poor they came hungry they came but it was all it was all deception we make so many decisions on an outward appearance and it wasn't until this week that I saw a deeper Revelation the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:12 that we should not glory in a parents listen to this Samuel was rebuked by God because he got to Jess's house and was getting ready to pick off appearance until God made him look upon the countenance of a man the Bible says that Satan masquerades as an angel of Light so anything that is deceptive is satanic on here's what the Lord told me to pray for and I asked him I said God for the people online and the people who are in this room can you please exchange our sight for [Music] vision exchange our sight for vision and then the Lord told me Tony he said this is what I'm going to do if I exchange sight for vision it's good for you because sight will allow you to see what it is but vision would allow you to see it for what it is do me a favor high five everybody you can touch and say Lord show me what it really is show me what it is show me before we get to the altar show me before I change my last name show me before we procreate and have children together show me before we become roommates show me become before we become business partners show me before we invest money together Lord show me exchange my sight for vision I am tired of being deceived Lord Open the Eyes of My Heart [Applause] who am I preaching to somebody shout Lord Lord give give me me Vision vision is this my job or not is this my house or not is this my person or not is this my vision or not I don't want to waste time I don't got time to waste I don't got time to waste I can't go through another bad breakup I ain't got time to give my heart to nobody else Lord is this it or not if it ain't it I'll stay single I'll go to Burger King by myself Lord show me I am tired of making the wrong decision listen listen to the the language of the deceptive he said make a treaty with us now I didn't hear make I didn't hear treaty I didn't hear us all I heard was now what we in the hurry for you trying to get me before I see you wow wow what why can't we take our time let's let's do it now you better be careful with that word now let's just get married now [Music] Joshua had no experience on this level he he know what to do up here he he he had no experience on this level and verse 14 shows us that he does what most of us do the Bible says that he accepted their offer without consulting the Lord that's what verse 14 says it says he did it and he ain't even asked God can I just find about 13 people in here I got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 of y'all standing already who will admit on this side of the Jordan River I ain't asked God am I right I ain't asked God about that I asked me so he ain't ask God can we just make a deal that we ain't doing nothing else if I if I'm dating you and me talking about Jesus irritates you the date is over oh y'all ain't saying nothing if if we can't drink wine and worship together oh oh I know I know I know y'all so Sav but after you put the blunt down can we pick the Bible up and can we just ask God to work on us until we put the blunt down completely I don't want to have to pretend with you I want to go through my process with [Applause] you y'all tripping who am I preaching to I I know it a PR [Applause] about he ain't ask God anybody dealing with the residual effects I mean right now what's today's date the 16th what month is this June what year is this anybody dealing with something in June of 2024 because you didn't ask God about it in June of 2022 2021 you were so tired of paying rent by yourself you needed benefits you didn't want your kids not having no Daddy so so you didn't ask God because you tried to you don't want to ask God cuz you know God will say no and you don't want to hear no the only thing we ever want to ask God is for help I never will forget when we when we started this chur when we bought this building some of y'all don't know this story some of y'all do if you know it act like you don't know it I'm tell I got some new people who ain't been here before I remember when we bought this church so I I've been an entrepreneur all my life I've been on the businesses since I was 21 years old I I was driving uh at that time I don't remember what year it was but I was driving a a a white 4S Carrera red interior twoo P cleaned in a M made me walk different when I got out of it it just you can tell by the Wake out where I walk I went from around here I just I just I was so smooth in that mug and I I remember I remember when we got this church and and we needed $6.2 million to BU the building yeah I I already told you I'm an entrepreneur just so you know ain't no way I I had that car based on the salary that the church was giving me just you just need to know that okay cuz the church couldn't even pay me so I got it off my bit so anyway I'm driving and and uh I pick up my mentor at at at the hotel to take him to the Galleria cuz he was here preaching for us pull up he got in my car and he slammed the door boom I know we cool like that we cool like that we cool like that but bro Carl I let it roll went in the mall went to shopping got him what he wanted got back in the car boom the meek shall inherit the earth okay then lastly got him back to the Hotel pulled up he might be watching so I pulled up and uh I dropped you off at the hotel and got out boom bro why are you slamming my door not door and he looked me in the face and said I think it's despicable that you are asking people to sacrifice and it don't look like you sacrificing you around here driving a $170,000 card and you're asking people to give towards a building project who are going to have to give everything they have to help you so it look like you ought to humble yourself and be on the level of your supporters that was at 2:00 I drove directly to the car dealership from that conversation this is the honest of God's truth sold the car it cost me $60,000 to get out of it cuz I was upside down cuz it was new drove off the lot with a used Jeep Cherokee and God knows and everybody here who was here will tell you I drove it for three years you know why because when somebody has been on a level that you have never been and you're getting up to that level you better listen to The Experience so that you don't have to visit the level you get to stay at the level and as a result of that decision we are in the building [Applause] are you listening to me thank you God you have no experience at this level but you better be willing to listen to somebody who does that's right yes sir and you have to be willing that's right to listen at the next level way before you learn to speak that's right yes sir are you listening to me today yes sir thank you God I listened to what God told him it would have save me money and time had I asked him first here's the point of the story how expensive is it to take advice instead of asking questions God should I do this or not should I have this or not most of us choose with our eyes so we buy things that we can't afford to impress people we don't like and people who don't even notice you have it on anything you got to buy to get a compliment is too [Applause] expensive as you get ready to walk through these doors you're going to have to test it before you walk through it anybody ever watch before you go through a door and the house is on fire you got to you got to test that door cuz it could be another fire on the other side of that door Lord is this my house or am I trying to impress somebody is this the season for me to get a new car or am I just tired of the one that I have can I live in this apartment with the furniture just a couple more years or am I trying to furnish it for people who only visit twice a year I hear people all the time I got to get a house big enough so when my family comes and visit me why would you pay an overinflation amount of a mortgage for a visit save your money and send them to a hotel when they come I know I know not popular but it's true you can sent them to a hotel for $11,000 during Christmas instead of paying an extra $2,000 for them might to visit preach Keon is this my person or am I being deceived Lord I never fought on this level before I need your help to discern this deception cuz God I don't want to date another loser I I don't want to have another baby with a person I can't trust to be there with me yeah I don't God I don't want to I don't I don't want to I don't want to give my life to somebody else I can't trust with my heart God I I don't want to go through who am I talking to I don't want to go I don't want to cry on my pillow another night I I don't I don't want to call my friends to come over and we film my own version of Waiting to Exhale I don't want to do it if I'm preaching somebody help me he and and and and fellas don't feel bad because it ain't just you it's women too if I was a fellas I if I were helping you I say Lord please don't send me anybody else who sees a baby as a career [Music] move oh yeah I got your back Brothers s don't send me nobody else who has blanded their financial future based on my child support Lord please don't send me anybody who just wants to trip me up y'all got quiet on that one boy y'all was wooing and and a just about 5 seconds ago watch this y'all ready to go I ain't so watch this the Bible says it took them 3 days to discover the deception three days here's what I asked the Lord to do when I saw that I ask God to reveal to you in the next three days who you can trust and who you [Applause] cannot in the next 72 hours I am asking God to give you Clarity on who you need to walk with and who you need to walk away from in the next 72 hours I'm asking God to Open the Eyes of your heart and and allow you to see who's deceiving you and who is there for you come on somebody give God praise in 3 days God show me who's genuine in three days show me who I can trust in three [Music] days let me finish the Bible says that once Israel found found out that they were being deceived what would you have done if you found out that somebody had moved into your life and they were AR fraud the whole time and they knew that they was playing games and they knew they had no intentions of doing what they said they were going to do and you could get away with it I I want to know what you would do what would you do well see look at all that Christianity leaving y'all right now look at you I can see it in your face what would you do how would you get even well not how would you let me ask this best how did you get even cut them off walk away that those are Christian answers and I bless God for you but but I I want to get some from the hood side of the church that's the save side over there let me get some the Bible said y'all ready he showed him Mercy help Father help Father they did all of that and Israel's response was we Grant you Mercy remember the name of the sermon dealing with deception how do you deal with it with Mercy they gave them life where death was deserved are you at the point in your life where you can let people live even though you have the power to take their life that you could tell the whole story and if you told the whole story we know they version of the story but if you got a chance to tell the whole story I bless God for any person in this room who had the power to destroy somebody but you use Mercy I pray a double portion of blessing on your life that God will bless you because you gave Mercy [Applause] let me finish it listen the Bible says that when they finally found out who they were the Bible says that they gave him mercy and the princess would not allow them to kill them why he says because we let you live now you have to do us a favor they said we got it already you can do whatever you want to do with us and the Bible says that they became their tree and water bearers in other words every tree that they had to cut down and make shelter out of and every ounce of water that they had to gather to feed themselves and their animals the people they let live did the work for them God says if you leave them alive long enough I'll use them to keep you [Applause] alive you must get to the place where getting even isn't the thing you want to do that's right let me show you something stand up baby stand up right here just stand up I want you to stand beside me I want you to imagine that she is up front and I'm behind or let's reverse it she did something to me and I'm in front of her and now I decide I want to get even with her look what I have to do to get even why would you get even with somebody who's a foot stool [Applause] thank you why do you need to get even with an ex they are already an ex come [Applause] on what why do I have to give my energy it took all the energy I had to leave why why would I come back and deposit more energy into something I walked away from you get nothing else from me yes sir you get no more energy you get no more conversation you get nothing cut my tree bring me my water cut my tree down and bring me my water and if you go back and read chapter 10:2 it says all of the men of gibian was strong which means God didn't give him no weak men every person that God gave him was strong enough to do it for themselves but God made them use their strength for Israel and you don't even realize that somebody's becoming wealthy and somebody's becoming strong and somebody's becoming affluent and everything that they are becoming is for you the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous and if you learn to deal with deception the right way and don't be poured in by social media tactics don't be pulled in by Girl Code and D code and bro code leave all of that we are in another realm we are in the Kingdom you're going to have to operate on another [Music] level now I know this message wasn't for everybody but I know I'm talking to some people that you were one incident away from just going crazy you were like have you ever been there like if they say one more thing to me if I if I get that feeling one more time I'm I'mma go off [Music] if he's leaving let him [Music] go if she don't want you help her pack absolutely but don't you repay evil for [Music] evil the Bible says in Luke chapter 6 says if you're good to those who are good to you what praise should you you get even Sinners do that and if you give bread to a man who gives you bread what credit should you get even the unbeliever does that that's right then Jesus says but if you give bread to a person who gave you a [Music] stone I live by this one if if you give good to somebody who gave you bad the Bible says the meek shall inherit the Earth don't you forfeit what's yours to keep what's not God you going to have to deal with it sir deal you got to yes sir look at me can't nobody do this for you no no can't nobody hurt for you you got to hurt for you to I I saw the tears running down your eyes the whole sermon but you got to go through this one for yourself [Music] daughter thank God you got your mama next to you but you got to fight that devil yourself that's right car I know you would love to fight it for Ed but Ed got to do it for himself Ed I know you would love to do it for Carla but carer got to do it for herself Lonnie I know you would she he has to she must y'all got you got to do it you got to do it yes sir we have to do it yes sir yes sir you don't get to suffer in the group that's right my God so how you going to deal with it you're so right so right are you going to leave this church today God if you going to click in on the stream and be mad like you were are you going to grow up that's good and show up that's good amen and let go any person young lady Megan I believe any person who has broken your heart or perhaps hasn't told you the truth anybody who sold you a dream listen to me if you come with your own dream nobody can sell you you [Music] want young lady my wife and I sat in my office last Sunday and we watched you all the way till you got to your car we watched you we didn't even know whether you were in a uber we didn't know whether you were driving your own car we saw you put the kids in the car and then we finally saw you walk around to the other side it was a red car we watched you we watched you and we prayed for you in that car didn't even know your name I only seen you one time in my entire life but when God assigned somebody to you you don't have to know them that's right all right you don't have to know him and I'm telling you right now you have hurt your last day by yourself hallel God is about to bring you out God is about to bring you [Applause] out H God's going to bring you out he's going to bring you out on Eagle wings and all that deception you've dealt with every lie you've ever had to endure God says I am the way yes I am the truth and I am the life yes he's going to repay evil he's going to give you everything the cankerworm has stolen and what the rust has tried to take away God's going to restore you he's going to restore you God he's going to restore you he's going to restore you he's going to restore you he's going to restore you God he's going restore Hall God God hallelujah that's when starts happening [Music] you know I hear in my spirit I hear I hear God telling me to say y'all don't know what people been through you you don't even know how bad that person next to you is struggling cuz some people are good at holding tears back heart is crushed I have experience with deception [Music] but I will have nothing to do with the demise of an enemy cut my tree bring me my water you remember in the Bible the Bible talks about morai and hmon the Bible says that hmon had a house he didn't know that ES was related to Mori and that vasai would refuse to show at the party and God would replace her with Esther not knowing Hallelujah that Mori was going to be living in the house of hmon who tried to kill him you got to leave your enemies alive long enough to build the house that you're going to live in you got to leave him alive long enough to build the reputation that it would take you 10 years to do and all they got got to do is lie on you once this is the season to let God fight your battles it's been a long day we've sung we've prayed we praised we've dedicated babies we had communion it's been a long day thank but I feel the Holy Spirit [Music] I feel the Holy Spirit drawing you to this altar before you move last week I dismissed everybody who was ready to go and we stayed at the altar for another hour I'm not saying we're doing that right now but I am saying to you that people were able to get Deliverance last Sunday for staying an extra 15 minutes now if you got to go you go but let me tell you something sometimes you are in a hurry to get back to nothing I want to go home what is that your home [Music] yeah I got to go eat if that's your story stick to it but what's at the restaurant that will feed you more than [Music] I'm at the place in my life where the only thing I want is joy unspeakable [Music] joy anybody in the SE I I feel myself changing anybody feel yourself going through a metamorphosis and a change and you got to have the courage to do it yes thank you God so if you got to go may the Lord watch between me and thee why abs one from another I pray that you will get home and find everything in work in order but if you're in this place today and you got 10 minutes to come and lay it at the altar and to say God I lay the deception down [Music]