I want you to open your Bibles to Galatians Galatians chapter 6 is where I'll be coming from today Galatians chapter 6 verse one I was between which version to use today I think I'm going to read this in King James version because it's just how I know it Galatians chapter 6 verse number one thank you the deacons are already standing with me if the rest of you just stand with us and um um I'm sorry that's not the scripture what what scripture I give you Galatians chapter 5 thank you Galatians chapter 5 I'm still up in that cloud I like Galatians chapter 6 too Galatians chapter 5 when you have it verse one say I have the bread I have thead stand therefore in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the Yoke of bondage behold I Paul say unto you that if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing for I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debor to the to do the whole law verse four Christ has become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law you are fallen from grace verse five for we through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith for in Jesus Christ need neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision but Faith which worketh by love you were doing good you did run well but who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth this persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you a little leaven lenth the whole lump I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will be none otherwise minded but he that trouble you shall bear his judgment whosoever he be verse 11 and I Brethren if I yet preach circumcision why do I yet suffer circumcision then is the offense of the Cross ceased verse 12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you verse 13 for Brethren ye have been called unto what Liberty only use not your Li Liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love do what serve one another and all of God's people said amen you can be seated I usually would have stopped at verse one um I did want to read the rest of those verses and and hopefully before the end of the message I will unpack some of those uh verses for the context surrounding the message today as we're preparing for this uh time of consecration I would like to share the message with you entitled today deliverance from Cycles deliverance from Cycles without going into a deep definition or examples of Cycles I think we know what a cycle is it's when we find ourselves going around the same Circle doing the same thing and often times it is characterized by something toxic or dysfunctional the Bible and The Narrative of the Israelites show us that you can be chosen by God and at the same time be entrapped in Cycles no he gave us uh the historical Narrative of the Hebrews not that we would look on them in judgment but that we would look at them in the scriptures and see ourselves the whole book of Jud Jes is all about Cycles I mean the scripture says Israel is chosen of the Lord but it came a season of their lives where they didn't have any leadership had no leadership in their lives they started doing what was right in their own eyes and the Bible says that they started worshiping other Idols they started being polluted by the people around them and they start worshiping those gods and then what would happen they would get overtaken by the enemy and then when they would get overtaken by the enemy they would cry to God and when they cried out to God what would our faithful God do he would deliver them but then after God delivered them and they were out for a little while they started worshiping other gods and when they worshiped other gods then the Lord would allow their enemy to overtake them and then when an enemy would overtake them and it started getting really bad they would cry out to God and when they would cry out to God what would our faithful God do he would deliver them again but then once they were out a little while and things begin to go back to normal they started worshiping other gods somebody shout Cycles there are different points to Cycles number one Cycles start when you find yourself moving toward Freedom moving toward the promise moving toward your calling and your purpose when you start moving toward the promised land like the Israelites and then all of a sudden a test comes I want you to look at the person beside you and tell them you should expect a test I've been uh renovating uh an a really old house and as soon as I started I I I looked at it I said okay I should expect a test right because nothing is ever what it seems like on the surface once you start digging into it once you knock down one wall something that's supposed to be something simple has layers to it you should expect a test you know pack lunch they Israelites are going toward the promise the promised land and while they're going toward the promised land the Bible said they're faced with the test the test of the enemy behind them the test of the Red Sea in front of them the test of being hungry test of hunger and fear here and when you're faced with a test you will be soon faced with the temptation to return back to the place you came from after the test comes temptation to return back to what you know to return back to what's familiar now I know what some of you going to say is Bishop the Israelites never went back to Egypt but I beg the differ they may didn't go back with their legs but they kept going back with their minds a sign that you've gone back is when your language changes to the past when you find yourself comparing your present to the past and you start looking at the past as better and they found themselves consistently in the wilderness for 40 years something that should have been a few days journey they found themselves trapped in a somebody say cycle C how do we get in these Cycles we get in these Cycles because we find ourselves following a familiar scent I spoke earlier about um triggers did you know you can be triggered by a person's presence you can be triggered by a song you can be triggered by a word and you can be triggered by a scent a certain fragrance a certain perfume a certain cologne he could be a a a good memory or a very traumatic memory I told Morgan to put this uh image on the screen The Book of Proverbs says to us to to look at nature to look at ants and that's you know the Bible say look at them when I was young I played with Hansen uh I did poured water on them I just try come on y'all why why y'all looking at me like I'm real cruel I mean I was a kid I W I was trying to see where they were going cuz like they were always on the way somewhere you know in my mind they were going to a ant convention but said look at ants I don't know if you've ever seen this before this spiral movement with ants where they start going around in circles some call it a death march an ant meal an ant spiral how does this happen where these ants keep going around in circles it's because first of all they follow each other and when one comes across a familiar scent it smells like the scent they were following so instead of going straight they start making a turn and when they make a turn the other ants behind them make a turn and then they smell the ant smell that was in front of them and then they find themselves going around in circles it's a phenomenon cuzz you know how long they go around in circles until they die wow following a familiar scent not the right scent a familiar scent not not the right fragrance but that's why the Bible tells us even evil spirits in the scripture deceiving Spirits witches and warlocks were called those who had familiar Spirits sounds like God looks like God but as you cut it out it's not God it's when they're following the scent of the past oh my goodness so how do some of us find ourselves in Cycles following from me sin so just want to tell you Jesus called it in Matthew chapter 15 verse1 14 the blind leading the blind and they both end up in the what dit in the ditch well our English Bibles translated ditch but I want to lift to you that it's not in our aspect of ditch because even if a blind person fall in a ditch they can get out you know the Bible says you know you know if if your Ox get caught in a ditch in you know on a Sabbath when you get the ox out the ditch well the English translat it translates it dit ditch but it's really the word pit because an animal that's four legs can get out of a ditch but an animal with four legs can get out of a pit and not only and I want to tell you what this pit is this pit is a cyan see in the in the in the ancient days that's how they collected water they collected rain water so when it rained they would have on their property they would have pits or sists to collect the Rainwater the only challenge is sometime people didn't have a cover over their sister and so if you're blind and you're going for a walk and there's no there's no lid over a person's sister then you can find yourself trapped in a sister and it could become deathly if the sister has water in it and that's why Jesus says be careful about following people who have no vision people who have no sight they can't take you somewhere they've never been in other words stop getting advice from people who are not getting victory in their own lives stop getting marriage advice from people who don't like being married and don't want to be married stop taking Financial advice from people who are not doing well with their finances stop letting people who don't go to church they don't attend church they don't like church give you advice about Ministry you look at somebody shout deliverance from Cycles how how do we get in these Cycles when we start exalting our preferences about Jesus and our personal experiences about Jesus and we start making it God's barometer what are you saying Bishop I am so thankful for your experience with God but don't make your personal experience God's barometer for everybody yeah I'm about to dig into something it's going to be a little tense for some of you because because some of you if people don't have it like you got it you consider that they don't have it but Jesus says I got a sheep of another foe I got people you ain't never met yet that got a relationship with me they may not shout like you shout they may not sing sing like you sing but don't think you got a monopoly on the Holy [Applause] Ghost don't exalt your experience above God because when you use your experience you start making an idol out of it and your experience becomes a limitation to God even in your life see to the point many of us we are shout says God is going to do a new thing God is going to do a new thing God is going to do a do do a new thing but the the rest of that scripture says but shall you not know it in other words I'm going to do a new thing but when it comes will you know it why because it'll be possible to be saying you're looking for a new thing but expecting it to look like the old thing look at somebody tell them you got to be open got to be open to the point the Bible tells us that the law was the shadow of what things to come the law was a what shadow of what the law was a what shadow the shadow is not the reality the shadow is not something for you to hold on to the shadow means something is coming the LA was the Shadow and Jesus was the Fulfillment but there were people who were so so obsessed with the shadow that when the one that was cast in The Shadow came in the room they dismissed him I want to lift to you that you could be dismissing the very thing you've been praying for you could be turning away the very you've been asking God [Applause] [Music] for Hallelujah don't exalt your ideals above the power of who Jesus is I'm going tell you how you can get trapped in a cycle it's when you have the wrong idea about salvation when you have the wrong idea I know I read that scripture I read a lot of scriptures today and maybe during consecration you take the time and go through it Paul was talking about circumcision and you know I know it seemed like a whole bunch of random reading but there was a lot of powerful statements in which apostle Paul was making during that time what keeps us in a sight is when we have the wrong idea about salvation when you consider salvation is something you did it's not instead of something that he did I want to say this because consecration for us that's not supposed to always be starting over supposed to be starting again Advan it if I'm going down the road and I start to give out of gas amen I pull over at the gas station I'm not starting my journey over once I get the fuel I'm starting again if I give out of gas and I'm on my way to DC I'm not going to have the tow truck to come grab me and bring me all the way back to Lynchburg I need fuel from where I am so I can keep going to where he assigned me to and this is why I was even sharing and I want to say this to you all and I want to speak this to you and I was sharing with some of the preachers that are coming Sunday we're going to repent over into Monday we're going to lay on our face and we're going to ask the Lord bring to the surface anything in our hearts that's not like you take out the roof system forgive us from all of our iniquities known and unknowing but I've said to the preachers and I say it to you by the time we get to Tuesday by the time we get to Wednesday and Thursday do not be calling me to repentance because I repented the first day once I have repented I don't need to keep digging up dead works I don't need to keep being reminded of what God forgave me of I don't need to be because some of us are more sin conscious instead of being God conscious we're more self-conscious than godc conscious you got the wrong idea about salvation now I'm not saying don't nobody need to repent on Tuesday and Wednesday yes the Lord brings something up in your spirit get it right with God but as a church corporately as a matter of fact I didn't already start no no no now listen now I know there a there's some people in the new theology now Advanced theology that they feel like Believers don't need to repent now if that's you now if that's you and I don't come to debate you it says repentance is old Covenant well my only challenge is is that when you look in the Book of Revelation when he was talking to the churches of Asia Minor he says repent quickly Les I come remove the Candlestick now repentance is not just saying oh I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry repentance is re thinking and some of us need to repent with our theology concerning salvation cuz anytime I ask you about how you got saved it starts with i how did you get I I what I did this and then I did this and I did this hear me if you start with i you probably going in the wrong direction I'm going say this and I'm going say it boldly you can't live right enough to get saved I said you can't live right enough to get saved there were 600 and 133 ordinances laws and Commandments and if you could have kept them then you could have been righteous but because men could not keep them [Applause] [Music] because man did not have the ability to not mix the garments and not eat the wrong thing and not say the wrong thing and not do the because man was born in sin and shaping iniquity because of the first Adam the second Adam had to come hey and he that was perfect came and he perfected us and we are righteous in him yes sir so how did you get saved Jesus tell your neighbor it always starts with Jesus tell tell your neighbor it starts with Jesus and it ends with Jesus anything I did in my in the Plan of Salvation was a response to what Jesus did is an expression of my faith the Bible says we grow in Grace but you can't grow in what you're not in you still trying to keep the rules to be close to Jesus but my standard is because of my proximity to Jesus I live right because of my relationship with Jesus I pursue Holiness because I love Jesus Hallelujah I'm trying to treat people right because of my relationship with Jesus if I didn't have a relationship with Jesus I wouldn't have a desire to do it if I didn't have a relationship with Jesus I wouldn't pursue to do it I need to say this somebody said well Bishop what when you you talking about Cycles what this got to do with cycle when you have the wrong idea about salvation and is you you find yourself in a consistent cycle of never feeling good enough always feeling condemned never walking out your purpose never praying for things Beyond Lord I'm sorry I'm going to quote a scripture here that sometime you quote but I don't believe some of us believe it what the word there is therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus the Holy Ghost will convict you but it is not the job of the Holy Ghost to condemn you he came into the world not to condemn the world we were already condemned the wages of sin I'm I'm preach the gospel this Sunday morning the wages of sin is death but the gift of God who in here has not sinned who in here please tell me who has not sinned I need the person right now who have not sinned since you've been saved please raise your hand that mean all of us are worthy of death but the reason why we have eternal life is because Jesus it starts with Jesus it ends with Jesus Jesus and if you don't have the right mindset it's just a cycle so when we quote the scripture verse one of Galatians chapter 5 it said what it say what it say come on say what that mean that mean you have to fight to stay here y'all y'all looking at this you got to fight in your mind cuz everything in the culture tells us it's a merit system everything our church culture tells us a marriage system our work culture tells us a it's a marriage system marriages tell us it's a marriage system I'll do for you if you do for me I'll do for you if you do for me I'll do for you if you do for me you work for me and I'll pay you you be nice to me and I'll give you some sex come on everything is you do I'll do but when we had nothing to offer Jesus oh my oh my God tell your neighbor I had nothing to offer Jesus I had nothing oh you think God saved you because of your singing voice you think God saved you because of how pretty you are no I was a wret undone before I had sense enough to choose him he chose me Hallelujah the Bible says it wasn't when I decided to come after him when we were yet sinners [Applause] Christ he said stand in the freedom wherewith what CHR Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the what as soon as we said that oh yeah yeah don't be entangled again with pornography yes don't be entangled with pornography don't be entangled again with adultery don't be entangled again with intoxication but right here that's not what he talking about he is not talking about adultery the Yoke of bondage now y'all going have to go behind me now you going to have to go behind me you either got to agree with me or prove me wrong he was not talking about all of the sins that you want to label he said be not entangled again with the Yoke of bondage how is it that we are saved and some of us because of our mindset we so bound we supposed to be the happiest people we supposed to have the most joy we supposed to be the most smiling people you know because of what Jesus did but it's hard for you to celebrate what Jesus did when you still trying to do [Applause] it it doesn't work for you until you let him be God him be God what is the Yoke of bondage to every community in Judaism they have a rabbi right and the rabbi has an interpretation of the law remember the Sabbath and do what keep it holy so what does that mean though what remember the Sabbath and keep it holy no no what does that mean remember the Sabbath and keep it holy well somebody got to interpret what keeping it holy looks like yeah yeah no for real I mean somebody well just do what the Bible said okay but somebody got to interpret that because what you consider keeping the Sabbath holy and what I consider keeping the Sabbath holy can be two different things yes sir cuz you could say well on the Sabbath cuz I got to keep it holy I'm not going to cook cuz that's working then somebody else says well no that's not working I enjoy cooking and so Sabbath is a time for family so I should cook and we can cook together somebody says keeping the Sabbath means don't drive did somebody said that's crazy no keeping the Sabbath we can drive you hear that it depends on your your interpretation so who interprets it it's the rabbi yeah and when the rabbi interprets it it's called The rabbis yoke it's called the rabbi's what yoke a yoke is something you put on an animal so you can control it and turn it so you can plow the field hear me so the Bible said that so when when depends on how strict the rabbi is we determine how heavy the yoke is and some of us we grew up under some heavy yolks yes sir some of y'all who think I'm strict you I I should take you some places I wish I could take you to my childhood just for 24 hours for everybody who says I want to go back to the old time way that's right yes I want to go back and visit hear me if if the rabbi said oh no you can cook on the Sabbath then that's a light yoke but the rabbi said no no cooking no heating up no nothing that's a heavy Yol Jesus said take my yoke and learn of me for my yoke is easy easy and my burning it's like come unto me all you that are working to be saved all of you who are working to be right with God all of you who are working to try to be good enough for God and good enough for the church people come unto me all ye that labor and heavy laden I will give you I will give you Sabbath because this is how we supposed to be functioning I'm finished I know this Sunday morning I went a little too much in this I know this how we supposed to be Jesus created first day second day Third Day fourth day fifth day and then on the sixth day who did he create he created man who did he create on the sixth day man who did he create on the sixth day man and then then the next day is Sabbath yeah that mean on the next day he gave men all of this assignment tab dominion over the Earth name all the animals and Adam says okay I'm ready to do it and then he said let me go then God says no the first day after you've been created and given the assignment is Sabbath that mean your first day is rest in other words God was saying I don't want you to work to try to earn rest I want you to start in rest that mean everything you do is because you rested in Jesus you're living holy because you rested in your Holiness is rooted in him and not because of something you earned yes sir Cycles cycles and and to the point we never get a chance to pray about what's on God's [Applause] heart we never get to talk to God about what's on his heart because we can never get past our guilt now Paul go on and say he says now if you holding us all this stuff up as your trophy of why you so righteous with God he says well you making the gospel of n if you say hey I've been circumcised I've been circumcised Paul like okay then so you bragging about that that mean you didn't need salvation you didn't need Jesus to come because you did this and you did that and I don't do this and I don't smoke it I don't everybody who holds that up as a trophy there'll be a season in your life where something will come up yes sir you better learn to have Grace with people because the worst thing that happened is when you've been judgmental about everybody else and when you end up falling and you will then you in so much condemnation that you can't recover because you think everybody is looking at you like you looked at them you may not come back to church but I'm going preach this gospel before I get out of [Applause] here said be not entangled don't be entangled again with the Yoke of bondage now he said now listen listen as he goes on he says I'm not talking about a liberty and a freedom to sin he says so for all of you who think that I'm saying you are free so don't have no conviction do what you want to do you missed the message the message is it starts with Jesus because if it's if it's you you're going to be in a cycle of never getting there never growing in God I need you to look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor God is changing your prayer language God is changing your prayer request come on tell them God is you are now about to tap into God's heart you're about to tap it yes you your sins are forgiven you you have been washed in the blood if you make a mistake if you sin you have an advocate with the father now let's go on he said not keep laying again the foundation of repentance not keep laying again baptism at some point I want to see what else God has in the Kingdom so we find ourselves we find ourselves in somebody shout cycles and then for us that do have these toxic these other toxic Cycles in our lives I want you to look at your neighbor tell your neighbor you have to learn a different way you got to learn how to respond to your your Temptation Temptation different how do you break it you first got to acknowledge that it's a cycle I'm passing my time but will y'all give me seven minutes I just need will y'all do that will y can y'all stand with me for seven minutes I need to see you not your head some all right so if you get up and walk out I'm going to call your name all right if you need to leave I understand you got a first thing knowledge is a cycle you got to admit that it's a cycle it's not a thing yeah it's not a thing cuz we got a thing you know it's just this thing that I do no you got to start counting up how much money the thing has cost you you don't have time for B you Bishop I would come to Bible study but you know we work and I have to be at work in the morning I would pray but you know I would serve but we just got so much going on calculate how much time the thing is costing you you've got to admit that it's a cycle it's not a thing tell your neighbor it's not a thing it's a cycle and then number two you have to acknowledge your inability to break it on your own no you got to admit it you got to admit it cuz if I could have broke it on my own I would have broke it by now look at your neighbor tell your neighbor let someone in let someone and if you're not saved the person you need let in is Jesus I I've I've witnessed and evangelized different people and invited them to a a relationship with the Lord or invited them to come to church but they got the wrong idea about salvation you know what they say to me they say well well you know I'm I'm G come to church when I get myself straighten out I'mma come to church you know I don't want to be a hypocrite so I'm going come to church when you know when I get myself fixed up and I look at them and tell them you don't have the power to straighten yourself out you don't have the power to fix yourself the old chur used to say I came to Jesus just as I was I was weary worn and sad but I found in him a resting place and he has made me glad you got to let someone in and then number three you got to speak truth and rehearse the truth you got to break the cycle with the seed of truth I don't care a woman has a cycle every month but all it takes is one seed to break that cycle you got to take this message M and keep speaking the truth you got to speak that I'm saved by faith through Grace not by works lest any man should boast you got to start declaring when you start looking at the mirror and looking at yourself say you so stupid why did you do that again you so stupid you you got to start looking at yourself it says you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus I am the head and not the tale I am the Beloved of God you got to start rehearsing the truth because some of you have been using your own voice for self- sabotaging you've been cursing your identity the prodal son said to himself I'm going back to the house but I'm not worthy enough to be a son I'm not good enough to be a son I'll just be a servant he was telling himself that he won't good enough but when the father saw him a far off he hadn't gotten to the house he hadn't come through the porch the father saw him a far off and he says I see not a servant I see my son coming back home see the church calls him a prodal son but the Bible never called him prodal he says that's my son my prayer for you this morning is that you will start believing what the father said you got a story you've been telling yourself you got a story that people been speaking over you but I believe the words of the Lord scream at somebody tell them rehearse the father's voice rehearse the remind yourself of what the father said speak the truth and rehearse it and then number four you got to find a holy replacement you got to find a holy replacement if you remove yourself from one cycle you got to trap yourself into something else you got to set a goal you can't keep space there you can't give space to the enemy you remove yourself from one group of toxic friends you need to find some people who are going in the direction that you're going it may be awkward at first it may be uncomfortable but you need to get with some of the brothers says hey my name is Jay and I I don't know all the church stuff and I don't shout but I need some brothers I need somebody to talk to me I need somebody I can be honest with you need to find yourself pressing into some more circles press into it like you were pressing to get in touch with the Weed Man Press into it like you are pressing to get in somebody else's DMS press into it I'm talking about when you want to be delivered from the psycho I need you to get the three people tell them find a holy replacement find a holy fin a holy you need to set a practical goal you got to set a goal something tangible you have to set up a metrics for yourself you says I'm doing something different so I'm going to start meeting with God I get up usually at 6:30 to go to work so now I'm going start getting up at 6:20 I'm going start giving God 10 minutes before I go to work Hallelujah if I got to sit in the car just for the silence for a few moments before I go in the house I got to set a goal I got to meet with God the Bible says Adam met with God in the cool of the day the Bible says Abraham entertained God and made a meal for God I need you to grab your neighbor by the hand and said neighbor stay here if you want to but tell them I made a decision I got to break this cycle I got to break the cycle there's more for me God got somewhere he want me to be and I'll be honest here I'm behind schedule but the Lord says when you come to me he says I'll restore back unto you the years that the canor and the pomor ate up I need you to grab your neighbor by the hand and say neighbor I'm determined this year to break this cycle I need to be delivered I need to be delivered and I realize Deliverance is the portion of the people of God he already brought me out come on tell somebody he already brought me out he already pulled me out I've already come out I came out of captivity but now I need to be delivered I said I came out of captivity some of us are in captivity but some of us need to be delivered some of us are in captivity but some of us need to be delivered see you can come out of cap cityy and still not be delivered the way they were talking told us that not in captivity but they're not delivered I'm going to finish with this Amazon the other day I placed an order and I have Amazon Prime as soon as I place the order I Got a notification that your package is being delivered but the Deliverance is not complete and until my package gets to my house I need you to grab your neighbor and say neighbor God is about to complete a [Music] thing he put my picture on the screen he's delivering me from the cycle he's delivering me from the loop and I'll close with this Paul said to the Church of Philippi he says forgetting those things which are behind me lay hands on your neighbor and say I pray that you forget the sent you forget the scent of the last season that you forget the scent of past relationships that you will forget the sent of toxic connections that you will forget the sent of abusive behavior that you forget the sent of demonic habits that you'll forget the sent sh Oh shot [Music] oh he's reprogramming me I've tried to change on my own but he's reprogramming me everyone standing I'mma dismiss oh hey PR h know some of y'all want to throw your whole self out you just need to be reprogrammed Hallelujah you downloaded something in past in past time to start getting in your system yeah yeah yeah don't throw yourself out God said I'm going to reprogram you I'm a hey I'mma reprogram you I'mma re hey going to start thinking different and now I know some of y'all now I believe in I believe in drastic Deliverance oh my goodness I believe it oh my goodness I believe it when I was young there was a man that came in church in a prayer meet and he was drunk he was drunk the Saints got a hold of him prayed for him he got baptized start speaking in tongues and people like oh that ain't real he was drunk that man walked out his salvation the rest of his life oh no no Walter Virgil in our church had smoked weed every day since he was 14 years old came in prayer meeting one night and got filled with the Holy Ghost and never smoked again I believe in drastic Deliverance I believe dark can pick you up out of one place and drop you in another and then there's some other things well that stuff got to be worked out of you and just because it ain't perfect doesn't mean it did not work see this is the hard thing with working out cuz as soon as you work out one time you get in the mirror and be like yeah and if come discouraging cuz you didn't did all that sweating you didn't did all that jumping and you like I mean I expect you got to start doing like I used to hear hear some of the women in my in my house used to say you know I ain't lost a whole lot of weight but I done lost some [Music] [Applause] inches my mama used to pull my mama sometime used to pull on elastic and say look now I know y'all think that's crazy but some of us need some short-term goals so you'll be reminded that you're not in the same place some of you need some shortterm goals so you can start looking back and say oh my goodness look how far I've come and I know for some of you it don't sound spiritual I'm Pentecostal Apostolic Holiness and I don't apologize for it but I going to tell you if you a cigarette smoker in this church God can deliver you from smoking smoking I mean do I got a witness in here that he can deliver do I got any folk that used to smoke and God delivered you God God can deliver you but let me tell you something Joyce Maya said one time when she was in her journey and she had got into church but she didn't realize all the things you're supposed to do and she said she went the morning service and she found out oh there's another service after this she said oh my goodness she said well I need to smoke a cigarette you know she was new in the faith and they told her wait we don't smoke she said oh so she said she went to the car and leaned her chair all the way back cuz she said cuz I wanted God I wanted church but she said but I needed a cigarette so I could go back to the second service she said she know somebody thought that car was on fire cuz the smoke was coming up I don't I don't know where you are in your journey but don't let people make you feel condemned now I'm not telling you to be wrong and strong now don't be S and B don't be sinning and bold but you better start celebrating if you were somebody who used to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes a day if you down to two cigarettes celebrate [Applause] it because it's him that has put in you the will and to do what pleases him now I know see some of y'all that don't mean nothing but they tell you you've had a habit that you feel like you could not break I celebrate every Victory come on play some soft play some soft everyone saying I didn't I didn't close out 10 times now God is delivering me I'm almost there I'm acknowledging a cycle so I can be free from it I prayed to something was said in the process if you here today and maybe you had the wrong idea about salvation maybe you thought you had to be good enough for God and when God wants you to know no he's made the way he's made the way for you to come into relationship with him and so all you need to do now is respond to it it's a gift it's called the gift gift of Salvation and you know what you do with a gift receive it but you'll be surprised how many of us are like oh I'm not good enough for that oh if uh if you are a parent and you know your child wanted a special game for Christmas and you stood outside of Walmart all night to get it I mean stood in line and then on Christmas morning you give it to them and they're like oh thank you Mama but I don't deserve I'm not going to play with it you like oh no yes you are you can give it to somebody else no you going to take this game and that's really how Jesus is about us he's pursuing us to save [Music] us you tell me God going to send people to Hell nope I don't believe it not the God I serve the God I serve ain't sending no body to Hell the God I serve anybody that's going to hell is because they got to step over his dead body and when you walk away when you've been given the opportunity to receive the gift you're telling them I know what you did I heard what you did but no thank you I pray today that when we dismiss service and people start walking out and going to lunch I pray that when we dismiss this service if maybe you had the wrong idea about salvation and you said today I want to be safe cuz I don't have the ability to save myself and I like to pride myself in what I can do for me and not depend on nobody else but I don't have the power to save me when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me my soul Cries Out Hallelujah I thank thank God for saving me out of all the things that I've experienced in life nothing compares to accepting Jesus as my Lord and my savior if you are not saved and you have not experienced the saving power of Jesus Christ right where you are ask him ask him to save you and he'll meet you at the point of your need if you need to connect with someone or someone to pray with you send your prayer request or call the number on the screen and we will be there to share Jesus Christ and the message of Hope with you I want to thank all of you who have been supporting our ministry down through the years is because of you that we've expanded this YouTube channel we've expanded all on the outlets that you're hearing of this message so what I want you to do is make sure you share make sure you subscribe and send this message to someone who needs to hear it and for all of you who desire to support our ministry there ways to give on the screen and remember when you sew into our ministry you're not just helping us do ministry domestically but you're partnering with what we're doing all over the world the seed may leave your hand but it will never leave your life this is Bishop s y yanger saying go with God because he's already going with you God bless [Music]