we want more there's something we want more how many you really believe that Hallelujah that's really your declaration there's there's I think there's nothing that I want more than Jesus there's nothing that I want more than the Lord I am so thankful and grateful God knew what we had need of before we asked but then God gave us more than we could ever handle in the sense of blessing he always he because he is love and because love gives above its personal expectation of the one it's given its love to God had already given us more love than ever be able to give back to him all God wants us to do is just be obedient to the love he's given and the best way to be obedient to the love that God has given us is to love somebody else Hallelujah is to love somebody else you really know how much you love God when you can love somebody else especially that don't look like you that don't act like you somebody that that doesn't bind being different from you and yet and still you realize it's not because of you or by you or or about you but because of what his son did on the cross Hallelujah we can love everybody because he took the time to love me amen Hallelujah I want you to go let's get into the word Matthew chapter 6. we're going to get right back we have been in this series um uh Lord teach us to pray and we're getting right back into it this morning I'm sounding like my mic is really loud up here I'm not sure if we could adjust that for me please while we are finding ourselves in Matthew chapter 6 Matthew chapter 6 and we'll begin at verse number nine reunite the King James version of the Bible thank God for all of you being with us this morning as for those who are watching as well as for those who are still traveling we bid traveling mercies over them and thank God for you amen for being with us Matthew chapter 6. Hallelujah verse number nine and this is the King James version of the Bible after this manner therefore pray ye Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation but deliver evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever amen praise the Lord you may have your seats in the presence of our life-changing King father we do bless you and thank you this morning for your word and we give you praise now that it will go forth with power with Clarity and with understanding we thank you Lord that your word is true and as we have come with hearts prepared to receive your word on good ground we ask that it would fall there and take deep root in us bringing for fruit that will glorify you and you alone and for that we bless you we thank you as always giving you and you only the praise in Jesus name amen amen praise God so we've been talking about uh teach us to pray because our Mantra this year uh if it's to be it's up to me and one thing we have discovered with this if it's to be it's up to me yes but I can't do it in My Own Strength I need the Lord and so the scripture uh Psalm 86 verse number 11 and we use the the passion translation and I I'm grateful for the whole verse but I've been stuck on that first phrase because he says teach me more about you and that's really should be should be the desire of anyone in any relationship worth having is that you know more about the person that you're in relationship with it would be very presumptuous of me to assume I don't need the one I'm in relationship with to teach me anything about them as if I know it all already so obviously I need you to help me to know how to better love you so when they talk about marriage Peter says dwell with her according to knowledge why because if you don't know her you won't ever know how to please her the way she desires to be pleased and you cannot love your wife the way you loved your girlfriend unless you married your girlfriend because your girlfriend is not your wife nor is your girlfriend biblical so you can't treat a wife like you try to treat the girl because the girl can't be found in Scripture do you understand there are no boyfriend girlfriends in Scripture are y'all still here I know some of y'all are messing with you already been dating for six years waiting on the Lord and God's waiting on you to stop acting like the world so he can speak to you because there's no need for God to speak to a relationship that has no intention of going forward I'm gonna leave that alone I'll leave that alone just wanted to put that out there though because the whole purpose at least the original premise behind dating before the flesh got involved and then dating leads to mating but the whole premise was to get to know the person to see if this was worth going forward with now here's the problem God is not dating anyone the Bible says that you must believe that he is and believe that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him what does that mean that means you got to believe God is God period because God ain't going to let you figure it out I know the scripture says oh taste and see that the Lord is good so some people thought that was like going to Sam's or Costco on the weekend where God has had a little taster where you can see if you like God or not no you don't get to taste God and send them back the Bible says no man listen after after having tasted of the goodness of God Hebrews chapter 6 says that then because if you after that walk away it says it's impossible that you would even be restored again now you got to be careful because some people believe that I'm still trying to see if I'm going to do this and God says you're not waiting on me I'm waiting I'm waiting on you now why is that to me so important because if the psalmist David you're going to have to like David David's not our savior but you got to understand one thing about David that is said that is not said about anyone else in the entire Bible and that is that he is the apple of God's eye so if God took the time to say that this man was the apple of his eye for him to want to know more about God I think surely I need to know more about God and David said teach me more about you I need to know more so we've been talking about it we talked about knowing God's love because if you're going to love God right you need to know how God wants to be loved but then also if we talk about what's the most important thing to me Jesus said men are to always pray and not faint so if we are to always pray it would behoove us to know how to pray and the reason we need to know how to pray isn't because your praying may be right may not be right it's simple if the if the apostles if disciples asked Jesus who they slept with and ate with and walked with and ministered with if these 12 men who were because they by virtue of being a Jew they've been praying all their lives if they said teach us how to pray surely we ought to say teach me how to pray now the reason we say that now and here's here's let me say this real quick and then I'll get into what I want to get into because I'm just trying to find myself back you know from this time last week I was on a plane headed on my vacation so I'm I'm just getting back in the groove y'all all right and so but here's what what's crazy is many of us will never ask the Lord to teach us anything that we think we already know because somehow we believe if I know it now watch this it's like I'm trying to help you because I don't want y'all to get mad yet but it's kind of like you know your mother your mother I'll use my mama mother pool mother pool bait you know for a living and her her easy as her go-to was that lemon pound cake it's her go-to so what but then because that was her go-to that would be you know I've talked about it before she just whip a cake up I know no recipe needed you know just whip it up you know what I'm saying so we kept butter it was always soft butter in my house in case she felt like whipping one up but in the whipping process if you lived in our house any alone with any uh at the time everybody that lived in our home learned how to whip one up because they were whipped up so often this makes sense so I haven't done it in a long time but I don't want y'all to be fooled I do know how to make mother pool I don't know how to make Duncan Hines because and all that stuff anytime you just Add Water you didn't bake it you understand I'm sorry I'm sorry yeah no no if it it might have been made at home but it wasn't homemade there's a difference but anyway but the point is it would be like me telling my mama I know what I'm doing what I'm doing was she taught me how to do and so when God tries to help us in our prayer life and and I'm gonna tell you as a pastor I just stopped I really did because for years I would be on our leaders about how they pray because if you don't pray how the scripture shows is prayed that means you're praying the way you learn prayer before you read about and studied about prayer and concluded the way I pray is good enough so why change the way I pray I'm already messing with some of y'all because some people pray the quote unquote Lord's prayer before they say their prayers every single time they pray adoptable and that's not Bible nor is it the Holy Ghost Jesus said after this man to pray he didn't say he didn't say before you say anything to God always say this as a matter of fact Jesus never prayed that he said this is the outline this isn't the recital but some folk ain't prayed until they said our father Our Father you called him five times and if he was really your father you would have heard him last night when you were waiting on your last call just thought I'd throw it out there if it was really your father are y'all understanding and then we call our father's name 50 times in a five-minute prayer is one of my pet peeves and I I'm telling you I left it alone because this is the way some people pray I don't mess with it because it's all ice cream that's what helps me if it's all ice cream it's different flavor it's all ice cream some people Pray by talking to God and mentioning his name in every sentence God here I am God asking you God to do this God and God and God and God or Jesus Jesus do whatever and and it sounds very spiritual but here's what makes it in my opinion erroneous because if I have a true relationship with him then I would talk to him on the basis of relationship not religion no one else do you always if you have a five minute conversation with your spouse or with with your child you don't call his name 50 times you identify who you're talking to because y'all got a few of them so you got to identify which one you're talking about Napoleon after that you don't say Napoleon Napoleon Napoleon the rest I'm like oh he ain't talking to us and they're gone Napoleon on the other hand gives you his ear because you've identified who you're talking to some of us pray father now God do this God God God God God and to me my opinion it's like that's how we learned it so we never went to the master and said teach us I'm not the master so don't get it twisted that's not what I'm saying what I'm saying is when we pray I remember we used to my my dad we called them canned prayers because we call them canned prayers not because they could pray but because like a can of peas we knew the can of peas different from the can of green beans you understand what I'm saying it all but but all the cans had the same thing in them if you bought a case of green beans every can of green beans has what in it green beans so the canned prayer is that every single Sunday Deacon so and so would pray the same way y'all got saved again so Deacon pool before my dad became a a minister when he was a deacon Deacon pool would always pray a certain way and we were little kids so we were too too small to know because you know the choir had to stay outside until devotion was over so we'd be out in the hallway waiting to march in and I didn't like being in the choir anyway because too many people looking at you so but I'm a little kid and then you didn't have a choice back then we probably need to bring some of this stuff back now everybody some of y'all been sitting on the law for six years waiting on me waiting on to see where you fit in anyway that's another message but here's the point we would we couldn't see over the little glass window in the door so we would know who's praying not by their voice but by what they said because Dick and green always sends God to the nurse at home and ask him when he's done if he would please sir have mercy stop by here and some mother would always say say your prayers and they would get tuned up and pray and then they get into these words that we couldn't really understand and it wasn't the Holy Ghost it wasn't tongues it was just I don't know what it was it was something and then they would always have the cooling board and all this stuff and it all sounded good but it wasn't Bible and the truth of the matter is when you go home and you have an issue and you try to ask the Lord to stop by here please sir have mercy none of that has anything to do with what you're dealing with you're trying to pray what you heard at church which was a prayer for church and because you never asked the one who said we ought to always pray to teach you how to pray you're wondering why your prayers aren't getting answered because many of us are praying watch this my will be done are y'all still here because here's where we're at now Matthew chapter 6 verse 10 we've already we've already listened we've already dealt with who we pray to we pray to the father who are we supposed to pray to in Jesus name so to ask Jesus to do something for you is uh it's let me say it this way it's like if you're in sonship school it's like the sonship school student telling me the teacher that they're not going to be in class anybody in sonship already know if you tell me that you're not going to be in class I said okay because I don't deal with the attendance I don't tell Eldritch that you told me you're not going to be in class because we've already told you that's not my job so when I go to watch this if I'm going to be late if you're going to be late now sonship why I'm still the pastor of the church but in sonship I'm the dean of I'm all of that but my role is I'm just teaching and so you can call me and depending on what I'm doing I'll even answer hey yeah Pat I just want you to know I ain't gonna be there tonight okay no problem bless you everything all right yep okay and then when you get a unexcused you say well but I told see you missed it because before we ever started we told you don't call me now you say what's I got to do with Jesus Jesus said when you pray don't ask me for anything you go to the father in my name so why are we still saying Jesus Jesus Jesus in our prayers because that's how I learned to pray and I didn't feel it was a need to ask him to teach me how to pray I know how to pray and that what we do you know people say well I know how to swim and I don't know how to swim so praise God but but I the swimmer the person who says I know how to swim well most people that know how to swim the truth of the matter is you know how not to drown because you know can you while in one stroke can't just flip yourself over and do the backstroke can you can you not kick half the pool water out you're saying so there's level obviously there's levels so here's where you put yourself we've been the Bible says to judge ourselves by ourselves with ourselves compare ourselves with one another is not wise what does that mean that means for you to compare your prayer life with another person's prayer life is not wise the standard has to be the word of God now watch this so if if you got in the pool certainly not you had to swim you're not so Chris you know so okay and the kids are learning so Chris who faster y'all ever race they never raised you can't say you are if you ain't never raised now you might in your mind now she's saying probably see you how we backtrack you can't because you never put it to the test so I think y'all should just race now let me ask you something if y'all showed up at the pool and Michael Michael uh Phelps was over there you wouldn't even get in the water why not but both of y'all swimmers different level and see we want watch this we want a ridicule of Peter but Peter's prayers were answered he was praying at a different level for us to sometimes get them answered and sometimes not that's like I ain't sure which one is the fastest way never took the time to race and I don't have time in this Christian walk with the Lord to still be over in the kiddie pool kicking up water when there's work to do on the other side I need to know that when I ask the Lord something in Jesus name it's going to be done so what do I need then I need to do this what does verse 10 say thy kingdom come whose kingdom his thy kingdom come thy will be done in Earth don't miss that not on Earth how as it is in heaven now here's where the the rich comes in I gave y'all my title praise the Lord part two what was it last what was the last time listen his kingdom his way part two my goodness his kingdom his way part two whose kingdom his kingdom how his way that's thy kingdom come whose kingdom thy kingdom his kingdom his will be done whose will so his will is his way his kingdom his way we say thy will be done my way watch this now some because I I have some points babe I did give him some I just three quick ones really and that way I can make sure I cover what I want to cover because the first question and they're they're kind of points slash questions if you will or statements just pondering pondering statements the first one is how is his will done in heaven because the scripture says as it is in heaven do you understand I didn't write it that's what he says this the first watch this in the Lord's Prayer or in this model prayer where we call the Lord's Prayer or the outline of prayer this is the first condition because let's go walk through it he says after this man I pray he Our Father let's settle who are in heaven that tells you where he is Hallowed be thy name so we already got it he's he's our father Heaven is his kingdom and he's he's holy right Our Father which are in heaven Hallowed be thy name now watch this thy kingdom come statement thy will be done in Earth first first statement with explanation or with amplification as it is in heaven it can't just be done in earth because it's in Earth it needs to be done in earth the same way it's done in heaven so this would already eliminate half of these prayers that we'll be praying about stuff that's only Earthly minded here's one thing people don't like William but it's the truth you ready to let's say you want to go and buy a car you know you you want a blue one your wife want a white one and so y'all y'all y'all gonna pray about it and God ain't listening because there ain't no cars in in heaven so you want his will to be done in earth as it is in heaven and you're praying and fashion over what color car and he says son it ain't that deep when you buy it keep it clean I mean really I just walk the lot until the Lord told me which one to buy that's too deep that's too deep man that's way too deep the car ain't you don't need a car in heaven I know I'm messing with people I know I'm messing with you this is too deep why are you over here praying some unsaved dope dealer that came in by five cash money and you over here praying and you're praying because you don't have cash money Mary Kate didn't ask you if you want an orange Cadillac cause she like pink her car her way oh Mary thank you for the karma but uh blew my favorite color well you need to go sell Maybelline because over here we give our pink cat everybody know that y'all laughing in the Kingdom though in the Kingdom William you got all kinds of colors and God told all y'all the same thing what the Lord told me to buy blue because he wanted me to remind stop a thing that's not even a Heavenly matter so what do I do believe God to be able to get the car no stress no Struggle No strain even if I can't pack pay cash for it right away I should always be able to pay cash monthly to keep it in my name just get it over with man get the car thank God for the car pick up folk that need a ride and move on that's a heaven that's a Heavenly vehicle no that's an Earthly vehicle now I'm using the car because I want to mess with you all about these relationships because if it's as in heaven watch this no relationship in heaven is based off flesh because God is Spirit so surely God didn't put this little short light-skinned woman with this tall dark-skinned man because of our appearance are y'all here I like them tall but as in heaven you like them tall watch this go get your tall one then but if you want God's will to be done you don't tell him what you want you ask him what he wants you to have and the reason we get mad at God I know y'all don't think y'all get mad at we get mad at God because he didn't do what we wanted he had her to do his will his way what kind of God is this are y'all here thy kingdom come so how is how is his will done in heaven you ready you you ready it's done his way every day all the time immediately without rebuttal Lord would you say I said it's done immediately his way every day all the time immediately without rebuttal y'all know this stuff ain't in my notes come on he does it his way every day all the time immediately without rebuttal he sent Daniel was praying God sent Michael I mean he sent Gabriel Gabriel didn't say well what if the Prince of Persia is there Gabriel stood there and fought with the prince for 21 days why because you told me your word cannot return until you void and you told me to go and even though I'm the messenger not the warrior I will go until you send help I can't leave because you told me to do this I just it blows my mind the Lord said she my wife oh brother are you serious yeah God Pastor I ain't lying so how y'all get divorced I guess God was lying somebody lied or here it is he changed his mind again you know how God is flipping you know he's not the same yesterday today and forever he decides well you know go ahead and leave up son it's all right I got something better for you because we you know listen instead of just telling the truth we got married we liked each other I like the way his knees looked or whatever the case is we thought we'd give it a shot and hope God make it work what happened it didn't work but we don't see now pride and put us in a catch 22 because I've been telling everybody so you get off me God says she's my wife because that way you don't question but but I thought you didn't know God I missed it that time God said it this time okay so now two years later the same you show up you know what I mean by that you're the same different wife same guy different wife same problem must be women hmm could be you could be you so instead of saying thy will be done watch this because marriage how is God's will done concerning this matter I always get the one I'm giving prepared to receive the one I'm giving to them before I give them to them so I wouldn't have gave her to you if you weren't ready to take her from me and you weren't ready how do we know because you want me to replace her and me replacing her means you weren't ready to receive her which means I erroneously put you in that position too early the last time I checked God makes no errors instead of saying we got married we liked each other we loved you whatever that's nothing wrong with it don't miss it it's nothing wrong with it the Bible says marriage is Honorable so even for unbelievers marrying is better than second just get married you said well pastor but what if it's not God well if it's not God why is she even in your life you can't get her and then ask God if this is his will you missing it that's not how he does it in heaven the disclaimer is as it is in heaven it changes everything because I've been praying as it is in Earth this is the way everybody do it God said that ain't how I do it son so you're asking me your spiritual father your heavenly father you're asking me to give you permission to operate carnally on the Earth in my name I got stuck again this morning Chris I'm praying this morning praying for our church I'm telling you I can't get past it I'm my prayer I've been begging God lord deliver destiny from casual carnal corruption we live so carnally it's corrupt and we don't even see it because we just accept it and then we say God said and God says son will you please tell them I don't talk to carnal because to be carnal minded is enmity with God watch this that's a rebuttal and if there's rebuttal it's not my way because how they do it in heaven how they do it his way every day all the time immediately without rebuttal and I'm telling God but God I don't want that in heaven it'd be different if he said thy will be done he said as it is that changes because now I gotta see somebody it's all good it's like that you speak out don't worry about it say something because yeah but watch this it's like it would be it's like me saying God how do I do this and then he says okay son do it this way I say yeah okay I'm gonna do it this way though yes you know what I'm saying one thing that I always mess with Pastor I said which which one do you like and she'll say You're Gonna wear the one you want anyway because somebody says I'm not asking you for your way I'm just asking for your opinion I just want to see see now watch this if I say which title you like she said I like the blue one if I already had an idea she might go with the because you know she's going to be a little I like that that abstract color so I said babe which one this is this whatever you do it'll work out okay but I just want your input watch this not your will y'all better get this some people don't want guys well you just want his input most people that come to the pastor you don't come for counsel you come for agreement you've already made up your mind you just want me to agree on you want me to sign off on it it's like give me a blank document I mean a document full of words with a signature and say Here sign this what is this trust me Pastor it's the will of God y'all understanding this let me read something to you because my time is going I told you I had three first one how is this will done go to Psalm 1 Psalm 103. Psalm 103. I always want to give you something so you won't say he didn't even go to the Bible we're going to the Bible Psalm 103. Psalm 103 bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name now watch this this is how the psalm starts bless the Lord O My Soul bless the Lord oh my soul that's me personally bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name but go drop down because that's not what you do I want to see how it ends look go to Psalm 103 verse 19. yeah Psalm 103 verse 19. are you there it says watch this now let me let me walk with this thing for a minute it says the Lord hath prepared his throne where it's already done so when we're saying thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven it's not an ongoing thing it's already done forever O Lord Thy word is settled it's already settled you're getting this so watch this it says the Lord has prepared his throne where in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth Over All bless the Lord ye his angels now we went from bless the Lord O My Soul now he's saying bless the Lord ye his angels that excel in strength why watch this that do what that do his Commandments that's his will hearkening to the voice of his word verse 20 21 bless the Lord all ye hosts ye Ministers of his that what do his pleasure that's his will that do his pleasure bless the Lord all his Works in all places of his Dominion is here's where it comes down to a Christian let me finish the scripture of his Dominion bless the Lord O My Soul so he said verse one bless the Lord O my soul then he goes to this entire chapter and he ends by saying bless the Lord all his Works in all the places of his Dominion watch this bless the Lord so what he's saying is listen God you have dominion over my soul thy will be done in Earth y'all come on Adam clay man was made from the earth from the dust of the ground thy will be done in Earth Paul said now here's the struggle because we love to we love to talk about people's you know we love to to to to talk about people's shortcomings or human frailties because it justifies our laziness and undisciplined Life to step up and grow so Paul even struggled Romans says Paul said the good I would to do I don't even do see Paul struggled Paul also said o Wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me he said I've come to this conclusion the law of sin is written in my members watch this the law of sin is written in the very thing I'm made of but thanks be to God who giveth us the victory how do you get the victory Paul oh I've decided kill it daily because tomorrow when I wake up if I play with it I'm going to arouse the sin in it so don't wait till two o'clock in the afternoon to deal with your flesh you understand deal with it early if you wake up at five flesh need to be dealt with by 5 15. you understand what I'm saying I'm gonna give him some Grace William I understand yeah I'm assuming everybody ain't there yet we give them a little Grace I give them 15 minutes that give you a bathroom you're yawning go ahead I know some of y'all so important you read your emails before you read your Bible let them check their phones but by 5 15 that flesh need to be on the cross daily what do we do about three in the afternoon when my flesh didn't counteracted your flesh I remember now I'm repenting because he doesn't have dominion are y'all still here so let me read this to you and you know I'm not big I I study and I do study commentaries and all that but I don't necessarily go around quoting commentaries because that's somebody's opinion still it's all ice cream some some commentaries are cool with me some ain't because we have differences of opinion opinion preference but what does the word say so as long as we can settle on the word I'm okay but I thought this one was good baby and you know I have a couple actually I want to read to you if I get a chance because this it it just blew my mind when I saw this this came out this is from the preaching the word commentary it's a quote and it talks about watch this I'ma just read it I will tell pastor I usually tell her let me reach the insurance and just give it here because she reads so much better to me so y'all y'all just you know I'm gonna read it though Mac Mac not the not not not the makeup that was his name what's his name Mac m-a-c with a k at the end Mac Mac was in his glory he came of a long line of working dogs and he had sheep in his blood this was this was what made right it says this was what he was made for this was what he had been trained to do it was a marvelous thing to see him circling to the right circling to the left barking crouching racing along herding a straight sheep here nipping at her stubborn one there his eyes always glued to the Sheep his ears listening for the tiny metal whistle from his master that I couldn't even hear that day Mac assisted his master who had arranged to dip his his struggling sheep Mac was magnificent as the Sheep would attempt to escape the tub he would snarl and snap at their faces to force them back in Max every move in the pen or out in the pasture was perfect he seemed as good at the shepherd himself amazed Elliot asked the shepherd's wife if the Sheep had any idea what was happening she said not a clue and he says how about Mac he said this the answer was Unforgettable watch this now she said the dog doesn't understand the pattern only obedience I saw two creatures who were in their fullest sense in their Glory a man who had given his life to the Sheep who loved them and loved his dog and a dog whose trust in that man was absolute whose obedience was instant and unconditional and whose very meat and drink was to do the will of his master I Delight to do thy will what Max said yea thy law is written in my heart to experience the glory of God's will for us means absolute Trust it means the will to do his will and that is joy and I said my God you said pastor what's that got to do with it the dog didn't understand the process or the pattern the dog just understood obedience what's the lacking ingredient in the average believer's life today obedience because we won't unless we understand it and in our finite thinking you can't comprehend well you're here can you really understand who hath known the mind of God and here we are some of us can't even experience Joy unless God explains what Joy is if you got to know what it is you don't know what it is because Joy should be unexplainable the peace is unexplained you can't explain the peace of God you just have to experience it I can't I can't articulate it but many Christians have never experienced it because you're waiting on an explanation how about just obey disobey just obey now watch this that was that was from the commentary this was mine you all ready complaining is always connected to my will always always that's a l w a y s I'm just waiting maybe I'm spelling it because y'all got real quiet complaining is always connected to my will always why I got why I always like Adam never complained until the fall and the first thing out of his mouth after his sorry excuse for why he hid fear afraid of the repercussions and it wouldn't have happened had you not given me that woman fear so I go hiding and then I'm afraid to face the the consequence I don't want to get it I'm gonna come to church as soon as I get it right how you what do you mean you think what how do you get it right to stand before an almighty God are y'all still here and so so so watch this the dog the Sheepdog just knew my job is to keep the sheep in line and what's amazing is the owner understood this is not about so much love one for another this is about that dog trust me he's allowed me to train him and now that dog will risk his life every single day simply because that's his assignment and the average Christian won't even Witness because they're afraid they might get cussed out or what if they don't receive G I don't want nobody to call me a Jesus Freak so you really say his will or is it my will y'all still here so watch this baby I got another one I'm running out of time I got another one because I gave you I told you I had a couple of questions and a few but I had I said three I did get okay well here's one let me give you the second one then number two how how we because the first one was how is his will done in heaven immediately that's how that's how how's it done immediately completely right so here's the second one how then if that's the question then how can I know his will because this is where people get off like well Pastor I just don't know what the will of God is how can I know his will I just want to know what God wants me to do I do I'm not sure go to Romans chapter 12. how can I know the will of God Romans chapter 12. y'all know it you know Romans 12 1 I beseech you therefore Brethren right Romans chapter 12 go there verse 1. I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God right y'all there okay I've been sent you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a Living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service verse two watch this and be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind why so that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God so when I say I don't know what the will of God is then if I don't know what the will of God is on a particular matter I need to go to the word because the will of God is revealed in the word of God do you understand that but when I say I'm not sure what I don't know that what do you call I don't know what I'm called to do I don't know what God wants for me what have you even asked because the average person that don't know didn't ask but here's the other part of that is this where's my what does it say be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your spirit you're already saved you understand I'm already a born-again believer but my mind is off and I'm trying to figure out the will of God but my mind is on the game I'm look I want to watch this show and I need to read my Bible y'all so say listen God says son close the Bible go watch Sean come back to me when I got your undivided attention because right now you're just reading words is doing nothing for the transformation of your mind why because I don't have your mind your email's got your mind what you gonna eat at your mind he said go eat talk to me after you finish that because watch this until it's really how by transformation so here's what gets me as a matter of fact put verse two uh put verse 2 up in The Message Bible I love that so here's what I want you to do verse two are you here I gotta hurry up now so we don't need time now you know my time on your time it says don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you've that you fit into it without even thinking now pause for a moment we were on vacation we're in Florida it's hot everywhere it's steamy hot I mean every time I walked outside my glasses fogged up right beautiful steamy high and it rained every day so now it's like Steam on top of steam and so you know we're on vacation so I'm not wearing a suit we're on vacation I got my shorts I got my slide ends I mean slide ons I got you know t-shirt I got my ball I'm lit we on vacation and we were in a store and there was a there was a lady I don't know what her nationality is but she was covered and she had the head thing on and I told past Sheila I was watching it because you know I'm on vacation but I was on vacation vacation wasn't on me so I was still me so I was observing the room and this woman this this older Caucasian woman was bothered with the woman for unwrapped not unwrapping her head and she's kind of chirping at her a little bit and I'm just watching and I'm trying to get her attention I think she was shopping so but I saw this woman is frustrated like why you got to wear that in here so here's this woman in 90 degree weather 110 degree humidity but this is who I am are y'all here so I had on I remember one day one day I had on my my t-shirt that says prayer runs through my family and I'm thinking people staring at me and I realize they're just reading my shirt that's why I be careful what you wear because people read your clothes right that's why the words are there you got a Nike anybody gonna look in and say oh Adidas they they understand it they're reading it right that's why they put the words on it in the first place so so I got it and I noticed first of all I'm thinking why y'all staring at me I'm in the South why are you staring at me you know what I mean but honestly I'm just being honest then I was like oh Father forgive me they're reading my shirt right unconverted but anyway so so here's the thing they read my shirt but then someone say I like it other's like oh cool you know but we're not dressed like prayer runs to our family hold on pastor we on vacation she was too we're in the airport yesterday coming home we're watching this this family I said babe what are they I said oh that was the woman with them what's they call what are they called are they not are they Amish she's no she said they could be the reformed Mormon I'm not sure we know there's something because the mother and both her daughters had plain dresses just above the knee I mean above the the ankle just above the ankle loose hair in a bun and they all had that little hair they're all of them and all of them were being stared at and they just conversating with one another like they'd only three in the airport you say well I see that's too much that's what's wrong with Christians we fit in so easily you didn't watch this you didn't laughed at the vulgarity you didn't Peak that the pornography you then sipped on the alcohol as a matter of fact we can't even talk about drinking no more because almost every Christian am I did I get saved differently half the folk got no sip it was this you're ready I'm talking you ain't drinking let me talk to her you know what they say Pastor there's nothing wrong with it there's nothing wrong with walking around the beach with your bra and panties either obviously because that's what a bikini is bust this but my wife better not do it watch that not because she's saying she with me I don't want you seeing what I have but then you got the what would Jesus do tattooed on your stomach I tell you what he would do he would pull his shirt down now sisters don't get mad because Brothers you get four of a six-pack now a sudden You Gotta Wear Your where your shirt at just for all they need is four if you just get four William there we go Pastor I'm just swimming cover yourself up though you're a man of God see here we go that's why I can't stand it tell us how we gotta dress no I'm asking you where did it come from I'm not telling you how to dress I'm asking you did you get that idea from the kingdom or from the culture that's all don't get mad at me y'all mad at me don't stay mad at me it's the the the I told Pastor I didn't like the skinny suits now some folks you don't need to like them because if you ain't Skinny It's called did it [Music] the scoot the suit described itself it's like wearing a mini skirt and you not mini it's not they'll know don't wear a pencil skirt if you don't have a pencil body look like a I mean come on y'all what are we trying to do we're trying to fit into so here I am I'm preaching with my boxers showing to that's the culture pull your pants up or I'm overweight and I'm wearing a suit too tight because that's the style but here's the problem Jesus they never tripped off the way you dress here's what's crazy he was dressed so much like the culture they couldn't figure out which one was him because it wasn't what he had on is what had what was it on in other words it wasn't his clothes it was the anointing under his clothes the woman said this man is so holy I can touch his clothes and get changed she said if I could but Touch the Hem of His Garment so I'm not telling y'all I'm 56 years old man I'm 56 though so I'm not asking you to dress like me I'm not listen you art Arts our Styles might be different our taste different listen our our relatively uh our our relative uh price point different because I don't want to buy something cheap because it's in yes sir I ain't got time to buy shoes every year I want to buy a pair of shoes it's going to last so they'll be the same shoe 20 years and they still wearing wing tips by the way and I didn't put a little Rubber Sole on the bottom time I said new style ain't no stop come on man we was wearing anyway the point is you want to dress like me but you don't want to pray like me you don't want to study like me you don't want to stand out like me so you want to look how do you want to look like when you don't want you can't look like a holy man trying to fit in an Unholy culture how can we stand out if we constantly fitting in and it's not the clothes you wear it's the life you live because you can be zipped up to the neck and still laughing at the vulgar joke still wandering with your eyes let me read on because I can tell I'm gonna get to one whether I got one more though baby it says instead let me back up don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit in without even thinking that means before you know it you're doing what you understand they passed the joint if you're in line before you know it don't before you know it you're like oh my you either now you how did how did the residue even get on your hand though because I was in the line where they passing it instead fix your attention on God watch this he won't take it not to wear a bikini he won't tell you to cover it up he won't tell you to pull it up he won't tell you loosen it up he won't tell somebody I'll tighten it up he'll just start dealing with you from the inside see this is how we tell on our inside by what we display on her I can tell how much time you spending with him in his word by what comes out of your mouth and your words it's too easy instead fix your attention on God you'll be changed from the inside out readily recognize what he wants from you readily recognized and then what quickly respired to it unlike the culture around you always dragging you down to its level of immaturity you mean to tell me obedience has something to do with maturity absolutely because some of us we display our level of maturity because God's still got to do something for you for you to do something for him Lord if you bless me I'll give you Lord if you get me out of this one I'll serve you Lord if you do it's okay baby I'll do it for you because I love you and you're just a baby I'll do it for you then you now 20 years later you're still bartering with God Lord if you just get me out of this Jam I promise I'll I'll change the way I'm eating God I promise he said hold on hold on Peter I don't know how we gave Peter the archives but y'all know how we and Pete pull it up for me play that tape from five years ago Lord if you get me out of this one I promise it becomes rhetoric now but he says quickly respond to it unlike the culture around you always dragging you down to its level of what immaturity God brings the best out of you develops World well-formed maturity so watch this so we conclude I just don't do that and I got to walk around I I had to get up I'm trying to hurry up I had to get a haircut I mean you know I didn't have to but it's just me I don't I don't want to be too woolly even though I'm on vacation so I said let me let me look up a barber shop now because of the culture I want to make sure I can go to uh Super Cuts or something like that I want to go somewhere I'm just being real come on I wanted to go somewhere that that Clippers was the thing not scissors you know what I'm saying and so I Googled it and I found one it says the master Touch Christian I saw this is easy it's easy then I went on a web page and it was a it was six uh Caucasian ladies I told Patsy I said they look like Steel Magnolia the movie I said I can't go there we all we got in common is Jesus I don't think they can handle my hair so I ain't got a lot more of the reason I need somebody can handle it because I ain't got a lot so I said you know God bless them I'm glad that they're not ashamed to say they're Christian but I'm gonna find somebody else so I found some then I can't remember the name of the place but it was a you know black guy and and he was playing reggae and his when his mirror said you know uh Philippians 4 6 yeah I love it we'll be all you know we just you know I can do all things through Christ listen to Bob Marley what's up keep hope alive black lives matter you know Israelite all that man whatever you want none of that matters I just want a haircut I called I said do I need he said no you just walk on in I came about an hour later showed up he said you don't want to call I said yeah he said have a seat have a seat you know two other people they finished I sit down so you're on vacation yeah okay cool where you from Vegas oh wow Vegas last blank Vegas that's what lies blank face yeah again and he said what do you do I saw my pastor oh pastor he said wow okay all right yeah yeah in Vegas right so we're supposed to say man you know I'm just no what I'm supposed to say that's what I do you asked me now I already know when I tell you it's about to change you it ain't gonna mess with me but watch this when I was an usher I ain't had no problem oh no don't do that what's wrong with you too man I'm a Christian man won't do that you want to hit the no don't hit nothing hit it I'll punch it you don't even hit it don't do that man I'm safe I ain't watch this and here's what messed with him I ain't judging you you do what you want to do but I'm born again me too oh oh well now if we both born again then I do want to ask you a question then why are you still messing with that why do you still need this supplementary this supplementary nerve calmer when the spirit of God one of his names is comforter and you still need Southern Comfort you can have Heavenly comfort and you still need accept and I ain't bothered with your sip but I'm just saying if you're saved why do you still need cultural calmers if you're saved my time gone boy y'all be messing with me because see here's the thing he said oh you know of course we ain't talk about nothing else but Jesus after that yeah and I don't know if he was he very well could have been a Christian but because of the job he had he's already preconditioned to just adapt to the culture that's sitting in my seat that's why whenever I tell somebody I'm a preacher they say oh pray all that how much is the couch don't get saved now just tell me how much the couch because we all if I'd have told you I was a pimp you've been talking about something else just tell me how much the couch costs let's do the business don't don't don't talk to jargon let's do the business it's obvious you don't live it because you needed me to remind you of it just to say praise God and I'm not saying you go to your job praise the Lord praise the Lord Jim praise the Lord John praise the Lord Susan no just go to the job do your job here's how you praise the Lord be there before you should clock in hello break is 15 minutes so on minute 14 you should be back not heading back and then time I see these folks they see that's the culture I gotta go can I give y'all one more I thought I'd be done with this but apparently praise look I got one more one more verse and I gotta I can't even I had another one I did babe I can't I can't get a question I give it to you personally I can't give it to them because I gotta go watch this just put put that verse up in the new Amplified first two William and I'm gonna close my Bible in this guy I want to get y'all next but then just come back next week if you can praise the Lord the Lord sutarius coming come back next week because I need to hold I need the question number three I need to I need to hold I need to hold because because it's it's it's the hook questions question number three is the hook William with the live bait on it that we we need to figure this out something I I but let's read this verse and then I'll give you a question next week yeah all right it says and do this is the new amplifier and do not be conformed to this world watch this any longer with its superficial values and customs I told Patrick God I'm trying to hurry up black lives matter they do but don't protest because a white officer shot a black man and you could care less that a black boy shot a black man as the life can't matter based on the killers the life should matter based on the life that's superficial I remember I can't remember who it was the George Floyd that's his name so the the clergy they showed up at City Hall somebody asked me I ain't going down there come on pastor we rally George Floyd God forbid I mean I'm not justifying at all it was a tragedy and it was a travesty it was an absolute murder on video can't get away from that but now one preacher not one politician not one lawyer not one Community servant stood at City Hall the week before when the 16 year old boy gets shot down by the 70 year old boy over a girl so if you ain't gonna stand for righteousness don't stand sometime that's not right living that's superficial it's superficial values and Customs it says but be transformed and progressively changed as you there it is again the reason we can't get over sip it and dipping and eventually tripping is because I'm not growing and I'm not growing because the badger won't take the time to school about the global and put it in my mouth thank you no because everybody love a spoon feeding preacher but boy when you say go home and read that for yourself kind of change and take this write this down just preach man give me my pacifier because I don't want to grow up the culture don't have to grow why do I kids got more rights than adults so guess guess what we've done in church we've given the immature carnal half-saved person that attends more rights than a sold out mother that prays same thing I went over there they didn't even helped me help you I don't even know you the Bible don't quote scripture on me come out what the Bible says if it was the case why don't you bring your Bible when you was going to beg for some money don't come to the Bible says the poor you have with you always watch this and you might be one of them and there's no remedy to that now the scripture also says that I'm supposed to take care of the household of faith first so before I give you money for food let me see if anybody in my congregation is hungry that preacher over there tripping no I'm in the Bible go beg somewhere else where is not required for you to live and change y'all saved I love it though thank God you are let me let me let me read the scripture babe I'm trying to hurry now stop clapping by how do you how do you mature spiritually by the renewing of your mind how do you renew your mind focusing on how many points your fantasy football team I'm I'm sorry focusing on Godly values ethical attitudes so saying girl how this look what's that got to do with the kingdom so that you may prove who you have to prove for yourself what the will of God is Pastor I just don't know what the will of God is so I know you're mature enough to know it what kind of question is that well because you could be asking God for an adult request but you're living a toddler life so let's first identify your level of maturity before we identify your ability to know what his will is because see Daniel don't need to know who his wife is right as a matter of fact they don't even need to be liking girls right now did you hear me yeah you heard me I can tell because his eyes you know when they really hear when your eyes start listening his eyes start listening you don't even know anybody to worry about no girls right now yep you understand because it he ain't ready here's what's going you go ahead and talk about this cute he started dating with his immature mind with an immature girl they only know what what they've seen they thought was love and on TV love is always involving touching love ain't never sitting there while you in pain love always kissing in the morning with your breath file so they say they're so cute together so we put it in them we ingrain in them cute when beauty is Skin Deep watch this that's not a scripture by the way babe see cutest cute is Skin Deep ugly to the Bone but when the cute wear off you're left with ugly alone that's not a scripture either but that's that's the saying but the scripture says that it's deceiving charm is deceitful and beauty is vain so you're connecting off Beauty here it is don't pray then just tell the truth I was the best looking God she was the best looking girl we hooked up we hope it worked don't be talking about God anyway so that you may prove for yourselves what the will of God is that which is good and acceptable and perfect in his plan and purpose yeah God has a plan y'all love it God has a plan for your life he does he has a purpose he does you ready I hate to be the bearer of bad news and he will never fulfill it in your life until you grow up got a plan for you I got a purpose for you but I ain't giving it to you because if I gave you my plan for you before you grow to handle it you'll destroy it and because I have a reputation to uphold this is what the word says when David messed up God's what was the rebuke you've given the enemies of God great occasion occasion to blaspheme David your blunder mess with my reputation so I got it there's got to be consequences y'all all right are you sure okay okay listen I gotta stop babe I'm gonna just give you this teaser for next week for those who will be here so if you're not just tune in if you can or get to CD or have you all do I don't even do people live in the cities anymore would you just the download get the get the download whatever you do but listen to it because here's what we got to deal with next week babe that's why I need all week to do it I mean one whole because next week because the scripture we we gotta we gotta dispel the myth of the The Good the acceptable and perfect will of God we got to deal with that because some of y'all been rolling around in the Goodwill of God well it's there's no such animal The Good the permissive the uh yeah we'll touch on that we'll deal with that because at the end of the day we've got to know and we've got to stop saying if it be you understand not if it's if it be if it's up to me no if it beat I will we gotta we gotta we gotta grow past if it be thy will because Jesus never asked anything of God before he knew what it was concerned we'd usually ask then hope Jesus knew before he asked we'll deal with it next week if the Lord should tell you it's coming come on stand to your feet father we thank you for your word thank you God that your word is true thank you that we your people have come and received it and I pray now father that we would work on us and I I know I know again matter of opinion preference and preference opinion what does the word say some have concluded you can't tell me what to wear and they're absolutely right it's not about what we wear but I'm convinced that if the spirit of the Living God dwells on inside of us he will begin to deal with us about the littlest of things that are accepted in the culture you Holy Spirit Will begin to deal with us about our behavior and not not whether or not we tuck our shirt in or or or leave the shirttail out whether or not we wear a belt those aren't the things that you're dealing with us not so much on our outward appearance but that when we walk in a room we change the temperature you're dealing with us about our representation and representation of you it's not can I tell by what I wear but can you tell by who I have that I've been with Jesus so I thank you Father for for the opportunity for us to grow in this thing it's a progressive walk none of us are have arrived and all of us are on our way I just pray God that you give us the stamina to keep moving forward that we don't get stuck and get stale and become sour and find ourselves on the side of the road complaining but that we continue plowing forward trusting you God the day by day we're being conformed into the very image of your dear son now I pray today for those of you who might be with us that are not saved if you've never given your heart to the Lord this is your opportunity to get Jesus in your heart to to surrender your life to him this is the beginning of his will being done in your life because it is the will of God that none should perish but the reason we know God doesn't override our will if it's the will of God that none should perish if God overrode our will there'd be no need for hell because he wouldn't let anybody go but the scripture is replete of verses that tell that there will be people dealing with weeping and gnashing of teeth an unconscionable fire well who's going the ones who never submitted their will to his so if you've never given your heart to the Lord we want to pray with you and pastors I'm not sure about this salvation thing again I encourage you I promise you this I would rather be wrong about God than write about myself because if I'm wrong about God the worst thing can happen is I'm gonna die anyway but if I was right about me and Miss God I got to stand before an almighty God and explain to him how on this Earth I was smarter and I didn't think I needed him if you know you're not saved I want you to give your heart to the Lord today secondly you say Pastor I'm backslidden I I'm I'm not where I should be my walk slipped I'm I'm I hadn't walked away from God but um the fire is going out I'm Cooler Than I Used to Be my hunger and my fervor isn't what it used to be if that's you we want to pray with you I believe that a born-again Believer should stay on fire one I love about being married William I refuse to let 31 years of marriage bring me to the place of complacency I refuse to say well it's the same old same old no we keep it fresh by reminding each other of how grateful we are for each other if you're backslidden somewhere along the way you forgot to think on the goodness of the Lord and if that's true we just want to pray which it's too easy it's too easy God loves he said he's married to the backslider so I want you to come back to your first love then you might be looking for a church home he said pastor I believe this is where God wants me to be and again let me say this I'd rather you join and discover this ain't it than to wait years trying to see where I should go we need to stop renting cars and church on the same level you rent a car for a purpose then you take it back we want to go ahead eventually you got to buy something that's why it's always more expensive to rent than to buy because it's not yours and you always pay more for what don't belong to you so I want to encourage you get plugged in if this isn't it praise God you're not sure we're okay there's no rush I love the word the Bible says the shooter might woman she perceived one day so this might be not the day that you perceive it but I will encourage you don't stop coming don't stop don't stop listening don't tune us out because God is trying to get you tuned into what he's saying amen so again if you're not saved backslidden or just want to join the church we want you to come we're going to pray we're going to pray I appreciate those who are standing with us and if you would just do me a favor no walking while we while we pray for these that are here and we just believe God for whatever it's not my business why they're here I'm not going we're not going to put the mic in their faith we just want them whatever it is between them and the Lord to get it right God loves us that much to just get it right so father I thank you for my brother thank you for my sister I thank you God that as they stand before you this morning you know the reason why you know the real issues in their heart you know the thoughts we think are far off before we even get them there you already knew they would come there so nothing surprises you nothing occurs to you nothing catches you off guard so father the fact that they're here you saw this coming but I believe you also saw Redemption I believe you also saw that this matter will be resolved today that the reason they're at this altar will never be the reason they'll be at the altar again today God is the day that they get set free the day is the day that they are restored and renewed and refreshed and revived today is that day and so we give you the praise as we rejoice in what you're doing and thank you for what you've already done in Jesus name amen amen amen hold on just a second she's gonna they're gonna talk to you in just a minute right before we when we would let y'all go I want to say again thank y'all so much and again thank you for your prayers while we were gone it's so good to be home and I cannot wait I'm telling you I cannot wait till we get back into the house of God again listen do this for me grab your neighbor's hand hold on to somebody's hand and and and and and let's go ahead and make this declaration as we prepare to go you need a hand Savannah what's she at outside with that baby boy you asked the Lord for us so that's what happened you know that's a part of it praise the Lord but let's go ahead and make this decoration repeat after me Father God I thank you I'm holding on to Victory and I believe this week Victory will be manifested in my life because of who I'm connected to I pray for this person's hand as they go from this place and not from your presence I thank you now that you go with them that you keep them that you protect them you bring them back to the house of God safe sound and hungry ready for more as we are do your bidding in this earth place in Jesus name amen