[Music] hallelujah hallelujah praise the Lord somebody hallelujah hallelujah you may have your seats for just a minute before we get into the word let me reiterate the women with the purpose will be tomorrow Amen in the children's church um area and the because we're having another service in here tomorrow night um we ask those ladies that you as you come in to park where our leaders Park on Sundays that gate will be open you can park in that back parking lot and once that's full we'll have men out there U that'll be helping you and making sure that everybody gets in place and that we're doing what we came to do for the ladies and that that is to Worship the Lord uh with your fellowship and then in here um there is a gospel showcase that will be taking place that's been here for the last several years now I think three or four years um uh Uncle G he's a friend of ours we met him through the music industry um it still won't record me but praise the Lord uh no but he um we we our hearted just be a blessing and so they'll be here tomorrow it's a showcase he basically just kind of showcase is those who are trying to be discovered and it's a great opportunity really for us to be praying because we find out in the gospel music industry uh Salvation is not required to put out a gospel song Amen and so sometimes I think we're caught off guard because we expect saved people singing gospel music um and so that you don't get too shocked and amazed when non-believers are making money singing gospel because really unfortunately many people whatever you do whether singing preaching dancing standing on the corner clocking in asking for extra is because people are trying to find ways to make money amen and so but our heart is to be praying for those young people many of them um thinking this is their route and perhaps it is we don't know but I do know everybody needs Jesus so uh we encourage you to be praying for them but of course feel free to come out it's it's free of charge it's not it's not uh like that you know the I think the Stellar Awards are here this week and usually when there the awards are in town they have all that stuff going on all over town somebody will be somewhere amen so more the reason for us to be praying this many people calling on the name of the Lord in our city at one time we ought to see some glimmer of a light amen Hallelujah and so we want to be praying uh for that and then we are glad to be home it is uh we had a wonderful time of relaxation praise God um and we thank God for the bible teach us that that there is it is a necessity that we get away the scripture says that the enemy uh in the Book of Daniel said the Prince of Persia fought against the Saints and he and he was winning he wore them out so his victory was in getting them to never take a break so even with Elijah the prophet God told him to go hide yourself and then there was a time he said now go show yourself and many of Believers are leaving this Earth prematurely because we don't know how to hide uh we don't know how to hide you'll you'll take a day off but the day really is not a day off it's just remote work you know what I mean you don't go out but you still take everything in so you're not breaking you're just switching where you're working and and it's not good it's just not good amen and I always say now if you got to take a day if you can't afford to take a day off that you would have gotten paid then pray about not taking Sunday off yes sir CU if I can't afford to take the Friday or the Monday with it I'm not really prepared to take the Sunday so just come on to church am amen amen y'all still here y'all I think I lost you already but it's okay it's okay it's good to be home I do want to say uh well thank you and we've had a busy month thank God for eldris uh Hill last week last Wednesday night as well as eldis tresa this past Sunday um I was just grateful that we had a full house we always thank God that people come to church you know we used to have the pastor wouldn't say he was leaving because people came to see people instead of coming to see God and so it is important that we come to see God that's what Jesus said who did you come out here to see when you went out there to see John the Baptist what were you doing were you just a part of the Curious Church crowd that went to find out what the noise was or were you actually seeking to be changed and so I thank God that we pastor of people that seek to be changed amen hallelujah well let's go ahead get ready to get in the word you can stand to your feet change y'all can be uh re re um excused and I am so thankful and grateful for change I'm looking forward to God uh taking that even to a another level as the young people get older yes sir one thing I don't want Church to be for our young people what school is for so many of us and that's just what we did for 12 years y'all still here and then our young folk grow up and they have the testimonies I used to I don't want I I we ought to be parent um especially you parent that still has children my my testimony my prayer ought to be that my children won't have a used to be testimony are y'all understanding I I have a used to be testimony cuz I grew up in church but I used to be an alcoholic which means Church didn't do it because I was in church but but I I didn't get in Christ I just believe if we would teach our children to get in Christ they won't have a used to testimony you understand and the reason I can say that because when I got in Christ I no longer have a but I did this I got in Christ but I fell I got in Christ but I walked away I came none of that I got in Christ I got comfor able in Christ and I've been chilling in christall ever since amen and I just believe that we can raise a generation of people uh that would say me too amen it's amazing I'm G get in the word and just a say I know y'all standing don't worry about it we've been standing too it's okay but I'm just saying it's amazing if you were a Rancher and you grew up on a farm your child doesn't adapt or walk around the farm in Chucks there's just everybody got on boots he don't he don't he don't decide whether or not he's going to have an accent he he he just talks like that he he walks like that he he he is actually he he has this relationship with the animals all because this is what I was raised in Hallelujah you don't see too many Cowboys running away to get to the city that's true but church kids now I'm G tell you why and that's not my message so I'll get that out since y'all standing that way if you don't stand anymore I believe the reason so many of our young people soon as they're old enough leave church is because at home there is no semblance of church anyway at home is home church is church and there's a very distinct difference between the two so as soon as I'm old enough I'm going choose the the the path of least resistance which is really the harder Choice are y'all here let me give you the script scripture amen I are y'all all right though sir amen school's about to start back kids in school more now than ever and dumber than ever been it's the truth I'm not I'm not I mean it's no offense to the child I mean we have them in class more than we've ever had them ever and yet most of them don't know to write a check if you if if the computer crashed we'd have to shut the town down because we don't know how to hand write a letter you understand that's that's that's what I'm saying and the parent we've gotten comfortable letting people who don't care about our children raise them and I'm just just a challenge amen amen that's my that's my that's my spill on that let me get to the word before people start logging off y'all stay there I got a word for you amen John chapter 10 John chapter 10 praise God this is so important to me because I'm I'm really I don't know about you but it Grieves the heart of God and it definitely Grieves me uh when I see people with this this church life and no conviction Church Life and no relationship argue more about the Bible than anything else and yet and still you want me to believe that you and I are headed to the same heaven and we need to get to the place not not out of offense or out out of arrogance or Pride but out of love we need to check and challenge one another a little more often about our Behavior because I'm concerned our behavior and according to scripture a lot of what we do according to scripture is disqualifying us from making it in yes sir and I know you said but I already confessed Christ I didn't say you didn't confess him the whole time I was drinking people say you're alcoholic you know what my confession was no I'm not you'll get it you'll get it I was lying for four years I was but I confessed I wasn't there's a whole lot of people confessing they're saved and I was helping them because y'all wasn't getting John chapter 10 verse 7 welcome thank you welcome home amen John chapter 10 verse 7 are you there it says then said Jesus unto them again verily verily I say unto you I am the door of the sheep all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers but the the Sheep did not hear them number verse n says I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture the thief say the thief the thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy I am come that ye might have life life and that you might have it more abundantly you may have your seats in the presence of our life-changing King father we do bless you and thank you tonight for your word and we pray as always that it will go forth with power with Clarity and with understanding we thank you Father that your word is true and we ask you now that you would Minister that true word to us and that it would fall on good ground hearts that have been prepared to receive what you have for us tonight then we will do our part and receive in it God by allowing it to take deep root in us and bring forth fruit that will glorify you and you alone and for that as always we do give you all the praise the glory and the honor in jesus' name amen amen praise God well here we are again we've been talking about the I AMS the seven I AMS of Jesus that are enumerated in the Book of John the seven I AMS and and we've been the last time I was with you we were talking about the what we would say the third I am which is I am the door right I am the door we've already covered uh the fact Jesus said I am the bread of life and then he he went on to say that I am the light of the world now he says I am the door and so what we talked about thus far so that I don't go and reiterate all of this we've talked about each one of these I AMS have these these particular points in common there is a cause there is the claim then the challenge the consent and then finally the conflict it's amazing in this walk of Christ there will always be the conflict and the conflict like all of the rest are are going to also have with it choices amen and so tonight we talked about the cause already we talked about the um the claim where Jesus said I am and then the challenge came from the Pharisees basically uh trying to get him to prove what he said but then we finished I believe last time I was with you with the consent which is where Jesus now makes the invitation to us if we believe he is who he said he is then do you consent to that do you agree and and here's where we'll pick it up tonight dealing with this last part or this this last uh Point uh which is the conflict the conflict you see what what could possibly be the conflict with Jesus saying I am the door he here is where it gets a little tricky because when we look at John chapter 10 verse number nine Jesus says I am the door right and here's the consent If any man enter in so the consent he says by me if any man enter in and he shall be saved right and then and All Shall go in and out and find pasture that's the consent then we understand with that came the that he tells us how the thief comes but for to steal kill and destroy but he said I am come that you would have life have it more abundantly right and when we talked about the Abundant Life what is that that's living in the the the Zoey life or living on the right side of the Kama it's it's choosing to receive all that he has for me amen but then if you go back to John chapter 9 because remember um when we dealt with the cause we had to go back to the previous chapter to find out why would he say I am the door in the first place and we discovered this statement came out of the fact that there was this man born blind remember and the disciples asked the question who did send him or his parents that he was born this way Jesus told him told them neither the parents nor the man sinned he was born this way but and here's what he says that I may do the works rather that the father may be glorified but then he says I must do the works of him that sent me and he makes a statement that if you weren't careful it go right by you he said while be I must do the works of him that sent me while it is day night cometh when no man can work well that just confirms again who he already said he was the the light of the world so while I'm here it's the only way way or the time to do the work you understand but now they go on Jesus heals the man right he heals him the Bible tells us and again remember as a matter of fact John chapter n let's just go there look at verse number eight John chapter 9 ver8 because the man he was born blind he didn't go blind right um like like some of our uh the the great mtown uh record record uh uh recording artist that's the word Stevie Wonder right he he went blind he wasn't born blind Ray Charles wasn't born blind they they lost their sight early but they at least could see at one time or another this man never saw he was born blind you got that now the reason this this is significant is because no matter when anyone that knew him encountered him they encountered the blind man you understand likely now I'm sure and you know I don't know these people nor did I know him personally so more than likely just by law of of of reason if you will likely the the kids that played with Ray Charles are probably dead and gone right but there's somebody that remembered him when he could see I want you to get this nobody ever saw this man seeing okay right I need to drive that point home because sometimes we will belittle what God has done because the moment you share what he's done I take you back to before he did anything but remember when we used to run the streets though why we got to keep going there I told you I don't do that anymore so here's this man born blind here's the conflict I promise you the conflict now this is what's crazy notice what verse eight says John chapter 9 verse 8 the neighbors who the neighbors it's in your Bible the neighbors therefore and they which had which before had seen him that was blind said is not this he that sat and beged now you got to get this the neighbors who is that those are the friends here's the conflict the friends remember the old shita sir y'all still here yes sir so they said listen we grew up on the same street as him I'm telling you that I don't know what happened I don't know what's going on but isn't that the same person is that the same trest that used to be at skate night it look like I'm telling that's that ain't it can't be I'm telling you that's who it is I saw her on Facebook up there looked like she was actually preaching or something but it couldn't have been the trer I know and now what happens is because of my friendships I allow my friendship to bring censorship to what the Lord has done so I don't boldly testify because I don't want you I don't want to somehow be embarrassed by knowing as as being known as a preacher but I wasn't being embarrassed by being known as a thug there was no embarrassment to being known as alcoholic no embarrassment to being known as a Monger but now I'm embarrassed to say I'm a virgin the devil is a liar come on y'all and are we afraid to just boldly declare What the Lord Has Done because of our friends the neighbors said and who else said it they which had seen him these the ones that used to bully him and you put a dollar in his bag and they took it he couldn't tell they knew who he was he say it's not he that sat and begged ain't that him look at verse nine watch this and it says some said I love this I oh God I love the some said yeah that's her that's trust all right other said no that can't be her that ain't trust her CU I heard her sister join something so maybe that's her sister some said this is he others said no it just look like him he looked like dine but theine I know no that ain't him I love this but he said this is this is you want to settle the issue I dare you to start opening up your mouth and declaring who you say you are that's good this is why we get so stuck y I I don't I didn't expect to get I didn't expect to get too much but I thought it been a few more claps in there but that's okay don't clap now Don't Clap now because I was sharing this with somebody Pastor Jim here's the problem with multitude of friendships which group gets the real me cuz my bowling friends we talk bowling but I got a bowling friend that don't like my golfing friends one of my golfing friends so I never I make sure that I don't go to any function that my bowling buddy and my golfing buddy gonna be in the same room so I don't tell either one of them buddies about church L they both show up now I'm faced with a challenge which one am I going to be a friend to today y'all still here so what happens is and and I know I'm in the house so don't even look I know I'm in the house the shame is that I know I'm in the house come on now I have a friend that I know doesn't like a friend I have but I call both of them my friend which makes your ready me the hypocrite because one of them if not both of them cannot know my real testimony wait a second Pastor are you sure okay so if the just using bowling and golfin to keep it safe I don't want to mess with y'all because you know we got we got gangs in the church you got the Usher gang the greedy gang you know who you rolling with I'm roll with hospitality y'all y'all still here and and so depending on how you look at Hospitality the whole Hospitality Group come up on you like we heard your usher was tripping you know y'all laughing this foolishness goes on in the house of God all because no one will boldly say no that's me oh that's good he said I don't want y'all leaving here confused so my bowling buddy and my golfing buddy when I went my bowling buddy because he don't like the golfing buddy what is he doing one of two things he's either talking about the golfing buddy or trying to talk me out of being a friend with but I still call him my friend so I'm the hypocrite how can you say that because the Bible says if you have art with your brother so every time I see my golfing buddy the moment he mentioned my bowling buddy I need to call my bowling buddy and say hold on my golfing buddy got got art with you right y'all clapping cuz y'all ain't going to do that that's okay though and the reason I don't get bothered I know we don't because we find ourselves don't I just don't want to don't put my name in it well you put your friendship in it though yeah I know so and so I I'm telling you this is what kind of made me weird or strange or my mom called me peculiar this is what made me all of that immediately cuz when I got saved com see to me I don't understand again common sense to me common sense is the Holy Ghost yes sir that's the way I've always that's the way I've all ever since I've been saved common it's the Holy Ghost it's just common sense common sense if I got a problem with my loin cloth and the the problem increases when I drink something and go to a place where there're SC gly dressed women common sense don't drink and don't go there that's just too oh my God that's too easy you know what we say though but that's why my friends going away party at you know why so you get on the phone and tell your friend go on way I will not be there to bid you farewell but we go why that's my friend what was I supposed to do y'all ready at the party you look around your friend didn't invite your friend so your friend over here says man did you hear I went BR I'mma just tell you I did go but I now I'm lying who's the hypocrite all because I won't say no that's me I used to be blind where where it's going to be at oh no I can't go to that bro God bless you I see you Sunday you still coming to church I see you Sunday where where is it going to be no I ain't goingon to be there I ain't goingon to be able to frequent that you couldn't find another place did you did watch this this would be messing with people did you ask about you ask Pastor if you use the fellowship hall surely you're not inviting friends who don't know you in church are you huh the Elk Lodge wasn't available Christian why you want the Elks Knights of Columbus why we why we going to the lodge believer unless you inviting some of them friends that have yet heard you say I am he see what some of us Savannah around certain friends we still even though we don't need them we still put on them thick bottle c bottle uh what do they call coke bottle glasses just to look like I can see a little bit better I still struggle though because I don't want to offend you so I'm I'm diminishing what Jesus did for me because I'm more concerned about you calling me friend than be able to say look look at this I'm him so Rob is that you yep what's that in your hand oh that's my Bible yeah oh you tripping no I I listen I was tripping for 22 years the whole time you knew me I was tripping I was one step from falling flat on my face brother I ain't tripped since man stop tripping you tripping right now no no no I'm not tripping well what you drinking I haven't had had a drink brother unless the Holy Ghost is liquid I ain't had a drink since 1989 I don't know what you're talking about but if you got a moment now watch this you had time for me to tell you all of my dirt sit down and let me tell you all of my good yes sir yeah God has changed my life so here's the conflict I'm telling you the conflict with many Believers growth is our friends because we won't boldly declare I am he wow well you know I heard is it true well you know well I don't know I'm and you know some I'mma ask them and then we said well that's what they saying you know that I don't even know what that mean the Pastor said um he G to make me an elder I guess I ain't sure what that even mean well why didn't you ask them cuz the certain friends I roll with them the them the title bashing friends so I got some T y'all y'all got yeah yeah we we went from Bowling to cuz you know bowling buddies don't bash titles title bashing friends are church folk they say oh now now that oh she ain't a deacon no more so I guess I guess so now what then you come over here and you got the the the the the baby Christian Basher how long he gonna be need well what's wrong who are you discipling who are you telling how to grow well they haven't assigned anybody to me well watch this disciple the one you bring oh that's right I forgot you ain't winning Souls Lord are we here all this they never ask me I never get to who is here because of you that's right sir how many folk changed their life because you used to be blind wow wow wow and made it clear I am he now that's me yep yep I'm the one that used to run the street that's me yep what do you do I I got saved now watch this that's the FR I got to move on I because I got more B because it gets deeper say deeper that that's ver verse eight and nine those are friends cuz it says the neighbors right and they which knew him before so them the buddies them the ones that you know they probably call blind boy this or had you know people the the the bully and the and the the the bullying and and the the bickering and the and the teasing all that stuff so these are the ones that knew them them those was the friends but watch this PAB y'all still he so so the scripture says the scripture let's just walk through the scripture says now first of all you know this took place on a Sabbath I love this this took place on the Sabbath most of what Jesus these miraculous things he did was done on the Sabbath that's a whole another teaching but there's a reason why he did what he did most of it on the Sabbath but anyway notice what he says here now watch this look at verse number 14 I'm going to read it and then I'll give you my second point because verse 14 says and it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight cuz the Pharisees are trying to figure out okay how' this happen so they asked him again and he said unto them he put CL listen man he put Clay on my eyes I washed and now I see I don't know I mean I don't know the chemistry of this I don't know the science behind it all I know is the man spat on the ground I'm assuming he spat on the ground I heard I heard the spit sound you know my my hearing ain't nothing wrong with my hearing I couldn't see it but all I know is he spat in front of me and then he put this stuff on my eyes and he told me to go was now I'm blind but I found me some water I'm going to leave that alone I I I'm blind but I guarantee if I'm that close to my healing I'm going to figure out how to get to the water that's all I'm saying while you sitting here talking about I can't see the water Pastor I just can't okay well keep the mud on your eyes then so watch this notice what it says verse 16 therefore said some of the Pharisees this man is not of God because he keepeth not the SB come on y'all he can't be saved because he did it on the sabath day how in the world he a man of God and he breaking the Sabbath right so because he keepeth not the Sabbath others said how can a man that is a sinner do such Miracles and there was a division among them but watch this verse 17 they said unto the blind man again what now tell me one more time uh tell me again what happened and he said he is a they said what do you say about the man that did it and he said he is a prophet look Verse 18 but the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind so listen I'm standing before you looking at you for the first time in my life I'm looking at you telling you I am he I'm the same guy that was asking arms last week that's me and they said this ain't him I don't care what you say that a Regina or they'll say this and I know I'm in the house again people will say stuff like this well you ain't the Lesly I know and instead of you saying to God be the glory you somehow feel guilty I'm so glad I ain't the Robert Jun soad I I don't even listen sometimes I I I take take longer than I need to in the mirror I mean you know we don't have to do nothing Brothers you know we just get up there you brush your teeth you brush your hair comb It Whatever some of y'all at at least brush your teeth wash your face let's can we just do that after that you know the hair that's all optional now and then but you know we're done what else you going to do I mean ain't nothing to put on some face cream maybe you not you're not lining no eyes you're not putting on no lashes you're not arching you well although some brothers oh Jesus some men are putting this stuff getting your eyebrows shaved and wearing mascara and wondering why you getting hit on by both sexes what in the world that's all I'm saying I tell pasil if a woman don't want to get hit on by a woman stop looking like a dude just I mean my goodness anyway anyway so my point is brother if we staring in the mirror we're it's we're we're in deep thought we ain't looking at ourselves we ain't like oh look at you please we like so the mirror becomes this this like a passageway to the past and there are times I'm looking in the mirror and I'm disgusted because I can't believe that God did some of the things he did are y'all listening to me I told somebody listen there are things I've done Pastor Sheila will never know and it ain't not since we've been married but she'll never know be and thank God for the blood it's under the blood and what gets me is but shouldn't she she don't have what you mean she have a right to know where's that at they have a right to know I don't want to know what she did all I need to know is are you the one was blind yeah that's me so when Sheila saw me Sheila knew the old guy that old blind beggar the and I think y'all better hear me I'm so grateful she was blind too Hallelujah because if she could see while I was still blind she might not have become my wife but she was blind back then too so when we got saved and we we couldn't see anyway now we can now we got saved so we can see for the first time and you know you don't look that bad when you blind everything all you see is silhouettes y'all Stu this how you can tell when a man has yet to come into a true relationship with God and Let Jesus Lead the way you're still moved by silhouette it's still hips and curves if that's still the motivation you need to go wash again I'm going leave that alone if he still got to be tall dark and handsome go wash again you understand I'm serious you say well pastor we supposed to be specific you haven't described nothing spiritual yet last time I checked tall dark and handsome still dot eyes hello 36 2436 still throw bricks at people people and you still looking at a silhouette go watch again something wrong with your eyes I don't know how we got there I'm just helping somebody cuz you you've missed God looking at Silhouettes don't know what the spirit look like then you find out afterwards now you want out cuz she scared you she actually she prayed out loud and scared you here here the point here's the point verse 19 watch this verse 18 let's it says but the Jews they didn't believe him they didn't believe that he had so watch this they said go get the boys's parents so watch this now babe this is so amazing to me because here's the conflict okay the first one is them friends Vanessa this one is even worse uh they said go get the parents so they had they go get the parents of him that had received his sight so look at verse 19 y'all there and they asked them saying is this your son who ye say was born blind how then doth he now see that your boy so watch this verse 20 his parent who answered his parents sir his parents now this wasn't modern day foolishness where he had two dads or two moms so I don't want y'all to think this was an adopted situation this his mama and daddy shared listen he got DNA yes sir he couldn't tell up until today he actually looked like he was blind he didn't know before but the boy looked like y'all you can't deny Daniel your son is this your boy L they say we know uh that he's our son and we we we know he was born blind but verse 21 teach by what means he I don't know how you can see I don't know I ain't getting involved uhoh conflict friends ah now [Music] Family Tara I need you to Mom I told you don't do that it's Sunday oh that's right you're the only one in the house saved you put the church before your mama that woman call you you run everything she tell you I asked you to just run the store you tell me Mama I can't that's why see God gonna judge all this fool you know how the family will have you feel guilty about being sold out yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah are you I'm I wish I be I'm telling you I cannot make this stuff up man when I came home I'm saved now I'm 22 I'm saved I'm saved I'm like I'm telling you I'm saturated soaking wet sitting at the bottom of the pool saved you understand yeah everything if I drown because lungs are full of I'm I'm sitting on the bottom I'm saved now I had drunk the whole picture uhhuh I'm in there few years later two and a half years later the Lord tells me who my wife is so the night I ain't forgot the day I'm only telling you because I need you to get this is March 8 1992 I don't know which year that was for you but it was my day y'all was already married but anyway let me join in on that right March 8th 1992 the Lord says she's my wife I had two questions for God I said well Lord what about IET that was my current girlfriend I'm help some of you dating Christians who won't make a decision to serve God or get married because you make it seem like you can't serve God and be married so you keep on going back and forth then talking about how the Lord is Blessing God don't bless mates all Ju Just thought I put that out there so so I said God what about evet he said I'll take care ofet I said Okay cool so got off the phone with her nine hours on the phone hung up the phone I laid down probably didn't sleep like wow this is trip first person I called was EV that I said God has showed me who my wife is she said is Sheila isn't I said it is she crying I ain't crying I'm like you don't understand God spoke I'm you don't realize how good I am so I knew I was a chunk cuz had I not been dating her she wouldn't have had those emotions she wouldn't even been crying like that you understand I don't know who she called can I tell my side my goodness anyway the second person I called was my mama listen to me I called mother poo I said Ma I used to call my mom ma ma she said I said M God show me my wife he did I said yeah she said that's nice I said okay I just m wow she's like okay all right you coming by lat yeah okay I see and that was it you know whatever but her phone start blowing up because the words start getting out and this is what my mama said I'll never forget it she she said he's of age I asked I said Mama tell him to call me why they keep calling you give him my number I'm a grown man she said he's of age cuz everybody was like how he well I thought he was supposed to marry the girl he was with at church all the time what happened what happened mother poo she said and I said M she said listen he's of AG you want his number nobody called me why am I saying that they said is that your boy yeah that's him and he he he he was born blind apparently he can see now that's all I know I'm out family left the boy high and dry why why wow he said he he he's a ag ask him he can speak for himself why would they say that verse 22 watch the now these words spake his parents because they feared the Jews for the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ he should be put out of the synagogue so if you agree that Jesus did it you going to lose your membership and my membership means more to me than my relationship with my own son so I don't I ain't going to mess with it I mean you and both me and you both can see you can see you ask him I ain't messing with that CU I don't want y'all to kick me out family family can I can I I got a minute thank you I got some time that's all I need to here go go watch this real quick thank you Holy Ghost y'all all right yes sir let me let me look now I got to find it it jumped on me but I know where I want to go I believe it's Matthew 13 but let me get there first to confirm I just need you to see something because this part it's always just mess with me I I I don't get it but anyway uh let me see is that where I want to go where I want to go where I go yes no where where his where his mama came his family was there to see him babe where's that at Mark what I Matthew Mark Luke all of them said I just want to know give me one I thought it was Matthew 13 that's not it you know man read I tell y'all all read your Bible I tell you this for a reason so when the preacher need help y'all could be said pastor it's right there Matthew 12 I said 13 Matthew 12 thank you no thank you 47 yes sir watch this Matthew chapter 12:36 46 y now and the reason I'm going here is because Sharita it's one of them you know I feel like Jesus now when he stooped down and rode in on the ground so yeah so everybody everybody here now but just just don't leave the room just stay and nobody will know cuz verse four it says while he yet spake now here's Jesus in a service right he's in the service and he's teaching and it says while he yet talked to the people behold his mother and his Brethren y'all y'all there yes what did they do they stood without but what did they want to speak they wanted to talk to him but they was outside so but he's inside teaching they know where he at cuz they came to where he was they gave they told je hey um brother tell me this his mama so he got the message and they said he teaching what but is his mama this is M where she at side y'all still here yes oh this is so good to me Born Again Believers miss church to go to the alcohol infested family reunion on Sunday morning because it's mama in them what time is it reunion it start at 10: I get there around 12 Dr po but is Mama in there mama know where I'm at I'm trying to figure out why our family ain't at church on that Sunday it's a reunion remember the family reunion is the whole church the whole church half Church full of the Smiths we like to recognize the Smiths y'all all candidate God bless y'all y'all have a safe time home now the church don't the church the family don't even include church service in the reunion no more let's just go straight to the park get some barbecue play some dominoes drink a little bit talk about the good old days and we got to skip Parts because most of the reason we're here to celebrate is because we had a Praying Grandmama or granddaddy that we didn't even acknowledge and at least go to their church and say we're all here but Pastor what I'm supposed to do it's my mama I love it so y'all think y'all I promise you you Pastor you're too hard I'm i' I'm I'm not there yet but I am at the place where most of the scripture I'm talking about I've lived it my mama know mama don't mess with me and God and she knew that the day I told her mama I'm saved boy what you talking about you got baptized at six I know Mama but you don't understand I'm saved now yeah now here's the first offense and the challenge if you're saved now what were you the last 16 years and if you're saved now are we not I don't know what y'all are and I was too blind to know so I don't know if you're saved or not all I know is what we used to do I don't do no more sir I ain't here to judge you you understand but y'all know where I'mma Be at they stood this is the key it wasn't the fact that it list is the power play it's your Mama tell him is J James out here Jude he coming Jude I'll go get him M Jude calm down tell him his mama and brothers out here weer stop the service here the here's my not finish this I know what's going on it couldn't have been an emergency cuz you you interrupt the service for emergency what you're saying is I want to show you son did you tell him who was his mama I don't care what the boy doing is his mama y'all know how we do what pastor what am I supposed to do you're supposed to read your Bible and believe it cu the next verse verse 47 are y'all here then one said they was like I don't know what G you didn't understand listen your mother and your brethren stand without this is the point they still outside standing outside but they have a desire to just talk to you Jesus says in verse 48 but he answered and said unto them that told him who is my mother now you can imagine because again we we read the scripture from the point of History so it's easy for us to be like but can you imagine you you you listen Jesus out Jesus in here teaching Mary out there you know Mary you everybody everybody in town know that's his mama they still talk about her cuz they trying to figure out how she gave birth to him you know well I heard I ain't messing with it I heard she talking about some kind of the Holy Ghost or something I don't know I ain't never heard of before but so everybody Mary is known they know who she is and they know who he is cuz we still trying to figure out where he learned all this from so it's not these aren't strangers Among Us your mama and Jesus asked somebody who knows who is my mother can you imagine the face you don't know either we don't know who your daddy is but you should at least know who your mama is he said who is my mother and who are my brethren now CU how we want y'all to get this cuz we read the scripture sometimes too fast cuz when our mama stand without we leave and go see what they want sir mother P went to Glory knowing don't call her son before 10:00 a.m. I said the woman that gave birth to me knew not to call me before 10:00 a.m. cuz he ain't going to answer that phone anyway you know he up there with the Lord I'm I couldn't be more serious and I didn't say don't call me I remember years ago we were uh and I'm going to get to my I got a few I take I took a quick peek we were at a meeting a Dr dollar Klo dollar was when he used to do them big Crusades and and they were in St Louis and our our church was kind of like the assisted with the cleanup and all that and I mean it's a it's a production before you put anything down just go check it out before you criticize it folk we talking about this that other I mean the 18 wheeler pulls up with the stuff the plane comes in with him and the advanced party then another plane comes in with the team and then the it's crazy it's like aund at least a 100 people travel just so they can put this this whole production on and one of the ushers was his mother and people find out you know how we do for the human nature that's why I'm saying we read this stuff and we we don't read it realistically CU like that's his mama oh that's his mama you know what that's C's M you know what she called crl Pastor Saturday night last service he been there all week last service he got to get on the plane to be at church for 6:00 a.m. y'all listening yeah and somebody asked his mama she said if my pastor can be at church at 6 the least I can do is be there when he get there that's what his mama said why because she recognized I gave birth to C but that anointing God did that God did that and I ain't messing with that so but the reason she got that Revelation she was within Mary and and the Brethren so we got relatives that are happy that you're saved but they want you to come out I got I God knows I ain't got the time I got Rel Brothers right now that think I that they say I think think I'm somebody I don't never have time for them but you know where I'm at three days a week without fail you know where I'm at you know how to reach me and this is why I love Santa Sharita I had the same phone number since I've been back to Vegas you know why so you cannot say you couldn't find me same cell I ain't changed it why change it if I I've only had like two people in my whole the rest of y'all are just you know again it's my phone so if I don't answer it it's my phone you know what I'm saying you don't you don't do what I asked you to do anyway I asked you to leave a message J you don't leave one anyway so why call you back that's the whole point ain't it I'm just saying I set the voicemail up you leave the message if you didn't leave a message you ain't want nothing that's my Revelation that I'm just telling you so when I call you if I don't leave a message I ain't want nothing if I left a message I'm expecting you to do what you lied and said you would do get back with me I'm serious that's what the phone is for right but here's the point he said who is my mother who is my brother watch this what's the qualifier of family verse 49 and he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples question where were the disciples at the time they was in here with him uhuh and he said behold here go my K Folk right here remember Saul of Tarsus uhuh persecuting the church Jesus said Saul Saul why persecutest thou me how long you going to keep kicking your kicking your feet up against the prick he was blinded and he said listen go on in the Damas go go to Damascus when you get there seek out a man and tell him he's looking for you his name is and he's been praying he's a prophet I'm telling him him you coming and when you go find him he's going to pray for you lay hands on you and you'll get your sight back so the angel of the Lord shows up to him and says listen Saul come he said Lord I mean you got I get it but he he came here to kill Christians don't worry about it I've already assigned it it's all good when he come I need you to go with him you lay hands on him and you pray for him that he get his sight this is I love the Bible this is persecuting Paul in the beginning of the chapter and after that man laid hands on him he said brother Saul you my family now we got this is one of the issues with church the reason I got a bowling buddy that don't like my golf buddy is because I have a distinguished family you understand I'm more loyal to co-workers Lord that I am to people in the body of Christ and out of my mind I say well the church is full of Hypocrites and the Sunday you don't come we're minus one did you get that yes cuz we we allowing for you nothing I wouldn't do for you as long as it comes after God and my wife and then Josh jhua when then came shakina so mama you know you keep getting bumped you there is no but I'm your mama when I got married because the scripture told me don't put this ring on till I'm willing to leave you Hallelujah and now that I've left you Mama you can't call me when I'm with her and demand I run over to you oh I'm preaching this right and and and here we go here we go but that's my mama tell your mama your wife said you'll be there in a little bit I ain't talking to my mama like that you shouldn't have left your mama there cuz now you're leaving me which one is it y'all so saved it's never disrespect it's not disrespect I honored mother p as my mama till the day she left here always but mother Po's gifts got smaller because the Revelation is I'm celebrating the mother of my children more than I am the mother of me yes now mother po never had a problem with it why cuz she knew who her son was because she was inside [Music] too the conflict I'mma move on the conflict friends family family D I can't tell you how many times your your cousin if they come they smell I mean you know and I ain't got a problem with they not say I ain't got no problem with it I'd rather unsaved people come to church and you keep going to the club hello and then you know Pastor I'm in my cousin's wedding and then the reception going to be at the Crazy Horse Pastor Sheila I'm not g to be in praise and worship rehearsal because my cousin's wedding you know she getting married tomorrow oh yeah yeah yeah well her Bachelor at party going to be out down that they got some guy popping out and I um what am I supposed to do I'm in the wedding show up on the wedding day and when they say see you don't want to do nothing I ask you to do I asked you to give your heart to Jesus like six years ago don't trip I ain't got to be in the wedding I had to buy the dress anyway don't trip that's the truth I mean Saints we act like we we supposed to be nice to sin you sin don't require sin don't get no niceness from me you understand but that's my cousin I know who it is my brother I I I eulogized my brother years ago my brother was strung out on drugs strung out and and I remember he he was a p i mean professional panhandler he he would try he lobbying for the best corners he was out there but that's my brother we grew up in the same church that's my brother you understand and he know it's nothing I wouldn't do for him he showed up to church one Sunday no problem but he was out outside I went out there and I said listen you whenever you want to come in you can but if you ever ask one of my members for one dime I will have you removed and you'll never come back now sit down and I'll cat you to eat after church that's the boy the last boy before me that left my mother's womb you my brother but this my family don't you ask them for no money see P see that's what's wrong with the church today what's wrong with the church today is you don't know who you related to church afraid to do a spiritual 23 and me don't want to do a y'all I mean come on cuz you don't know who going to line up in wi up in the chromosomes and all that you don't know who the bloodline going to say I guarantee you if we did if we was able to do a spiritual blood test we going to find out it's a whole lot of folk you didn't know that was your daddy you know what I'm just saying be a whole lot of surprises be like uh Well ma'am um um well here I volunteer he can have my kidney my blood my liver whatever that's my boy um m p may I speak with you for a moment listen um we know you the mama but um is he aware that he's not the so I I know Victory Missionary Baptist Church was your mama or Z Methodist or St Paul Church of God in Christ or whatever Church you were part of that's the woman I know that's your mama uh but we drew the blood and God ain't your daddy um yeah you got the I know you got the robo Boy Can't Nobody leave that Soul like you oh my God but we drew some blood and we got a family problem this is real talk and I'm telling you we got to make the distinction one way that we can tell that we haven't made the distinction we're too afraid to be bold and be by ourselves if necessary I have no friends if I have to have friends and compromise salvation I have no family if I have to have family and compromise are y'all listening to me so so we got and let me give this last one you got family these are conflicts friendship the Friendship conflict why because the friend keep trying to remind you tyarra when you was blind then you got the family conflict what's the family conflict the family twofold the family conflict one the family they related to you but they distance themselves from you when you in trouble the family but then the other side of the family is they want privileges they y' notice notice it's not called it's not called Neighbor Bob's Discount nebor no it's called Uncle Bob discount oh yeah everybody want y'all y'all never heard of Uncle Bob discount that's when that's when you making Jal you didn't went to school to learn how to do this and and you get paid by the stranger top dollar but your cousin want you to do it for free come on K folk come on do it for T I want Uncle Bob's discount and church folk one of the reason the church folks stay broke is because we don't believe God we never pay top dollar for anything wow so everybody in church with an entrepreneur Spirit has to believe God for unsaved client tell cuz everybody in church want Uncle Bob's Discount I heard I heard that you know how to tear this thing down and put it back together listen I've been praying the Lord sent me to you I got a problem with this I'mma drop it over and and and you don't know that my that's my wife Sheila her is broke too you take her I told her you a good man of God she'll he'll do it for you there a guy in our church he'll fix it for free y'all laughing and the sad thing is we've had more unsaved people do work on this church and save people save man want my money but he lying like we friends don't lie just tell me the business of it what do you want if you ain't going to help me if you're not going to give me a discount at least don't look like you gave me a discount do the work and make it look right that's right y'all still here I got to give this third one B y'all y'all okay I mean the ride almost over you know after after the loop on the roller coaster it's downhill from there we good we already did the loop this easy we about to the thing about to slow down this was a quick one y'all ready watch this now we got the friends and we got now go to verse 33 John chapter 9 John chapter n conflict man this the conflict with the door he says I am the door and danan if you want if you just accept you can come in and go out as you please well what's the problem well it's my friends and my family now here's that other one John N verse 33 are you'all there he says well praise the Lord I'm I'm still over I went over to Matthew let me get back to John John chapter n verse 33 notice what it says they said if is that is that what it says if this man were not of God he could do nothing this is the what is that that's common sense I've been sitting here blind all this time ain't none of y'all did nothing you can't do it now you tripping cuz I can see are you serious I've been blind all my life all my and you tripping cuz oh my we had a conference over my sight y'all never had a conference over my blindness you I used to be out there slinging sticking stuff in your arms in and out of foolishness no conference now I said Mama oh no I don't do that no more and you called the cousins you had a family meeting over my salvation I'm in Germany living my own unsaved life I get a phone call in Germany hey Rob you talk to Sheila lately no man she didn't jooy the cult what yeah yeah I said no I thought well I heard she was down in Arizona State and yeah she didn't got down there and I don't know she done she down there with them folk man and I mean they got her doing all kinds of stuff she got saved that's right she got filled the Holy Ghost that's right that's right she starts speaking in tongues she took her tight clothes off I sure did something wrong with Sheila she she she ain't she ain't wearing fitted clothes no more her hem lined and dropped sir man you need to talk to her cuz them folk didn't got a hold of it I don't know what's going on now these are people that are concerned genuinely concerned they're concerned because their friend has changed are y'all here watch this now it says verse 34 they answered and said unto him thou was all together born in sin listen man you was born in sin your mama a sinner your daddy a sinner I knew your grandpa he was a sinner and you going to come up in here Ain that how we be doing it you going hold on you still smoke weed and you going to check me on lying yeah I ain't got to be high to know you [Music] lying is it Poss I still smoke cuz you still lie they answered and said unto him thou was altogether born in sin and dust thou now you teaching us what they do they kicked them out the fold he said get out of here now watch this all this time I'm right by you blind and you never invited me in now I can see and I come in and because I give him the glory for it you kick me out you understand cut my teeth as it were in the Baptist Church that's why I love the Baptist got nothing against the Baptist I get get kind of tired of y'all talking about the Baptist is like don't talk about the Baptist unless you was Baptist you understand because them Baptist mothers they may they may had some issues but them Baptist mothers knew how to pray there was some praying deacons they weren't all cheating and they weren't all sipping and dipping there was some saved folk up in there right but I the reason I say that that's why that's why I got saved in that but I there came a day when it wasn't something's missing so when I discovered what was missing now don't diss where you came from just grow on you understand don't put them down like they so wrong that's where you was born you understand now you better than them so no one there has come out of there cuz you too good to go back there you still here so here it is here's the challenge I think many Believers we struggle coming in the door Sharita because of friends because of family but also because of foes well foes I ain't scared watch this go to Matthew Chapter 5 foes because here's what your Bible says Matthew Chapter 5 this is where Jesus give the nine blessed right bless it bless it bless it bless it bless it look at but after the nine blessings he gives another are y'all still here yes look at verse number 11 Matthew Chapter 5 oh my God I'm I'm almost done honestly Matthew 5 can y'all take just two more seconds Sir Matthew 5 you got these nine blessings starting in verse three three four five six 7 8 9 10 right you see that and then verse 11 you have a shift there's a blessed but he shifts because he says blessed are blessed are blessed are blessed are they blessed are they blessed are thee blessed are they blessed are the verse 11 blessed are ye it's a shift wow but watch this blessed blessed are ye now I'm talking to you who I know got this so I'm talking to to my family now blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely just because of me then what he says for my sake y' still here look at verse 12 he says Rejoice huh [Applause] rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you here's a mark don't take it as an insult rejoice when you finally get talked about for living right cuz if they ain't talking about you you may not be living as right as you think because the Bible says all who live Godly shall suffer persecution so how is it we got a church full of folk that ain't never been through nothing ain't never had nobody slander your name nobody's ever put you down everybody love you the bowling alley and the golf club everybody CU I'm friend of everybody something's wrong something is wrong have you said I am he have you told people you're the one that used to be blind and ain't nobody talking about you all your family excited for you everybody happy your family never ask you to to take that tithe money I know you got it because you always run all that money to the church all I need is $10 till payday well if all you need is 10 I imagine whatever that 10 was going to do you probably wait yep will you get paid again pay their loan I heard they'll give it they give you 50 no credit check go on down there cuz I'm not a bank I'm a Believer hello somebody are y'all here last verse babe go to Mark chapter 10 I'm GNA close my Bible on this one yeah because I think we miss it I really think we thought once I got saved people leave me alone leave me alone no my goodness oh my I I said today I just literally y'all I don't make this keep today I'm I got home h heard some some other foolishness and I'm like God I said father how how long I got to deal with this today and it's one of them God don't answer that question it's almost like you know how your momma used to answer when she look at you you ever felt God's eyes like you know son you you still love me yes you answered the question you want that to stop stop serving me stop declaring that I've changed your life if you want them to stop talking about you stop bragging on me as long as you're willing to talk about me folk going to talk about you sir when they stop talking you probably haven't told your testimony in a while wow so you need to check yourself same C dollar meeting same night somebody St Klo dollar you're fake and this man sit up here he said Thank You Lord he said I was beginning to wonder I haven't had anybody interrupt the service in quite a while I was beginning to wonder if my testimony was dying cuz all who live Godly shall suffer persecution Mark notice what it says babe are y'all here Mark 10 we go home can y'all handle it look at verse 29 Jesus the the the dog going Rich Young Rich ruler came what must I do what must I do he said you know go sell everything give it to the poor and come follow me huh huh hold up Hold Up Wait um no I can't do that and Jesus said how hard it is for a rich man to enter to the kingdom of heaven now the disciples hear this because like many of us today they quit riches with blessings of God meaning that I must be doing it right because look how rich I am and Peter said hold up Lord um who can be saved notice what Jesus says in verse 29 Jesus answered and said because Peter said we gave up everything to be with you man I had a successful fishing business James and John me and Andrew we had successful Matthew was a tax collector Matthew was living nice we gave up everything I ain't seen my wife in months and Jesus said verely I say unto you there is no man whenever I see stuff like that that's too easy he talking to me put your name in there there is no man that have left house or Brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or I mean or lands for my sake and the gospels watch this verse 30 notice what it says but he shall receive a h hundredfold now in this lifetime that's why that buy and buy stuff yeah buy and buy when the morning come that's more stuff but there's some stuff I still be getting on this side you understand I I I'll get my crown in heaven I don't need a house in heaven I need the house here I get the crown there you ain't going to be dve around them golden streets you don't need no car in heaven you might as well believe God for the car down here so he says listen 100f where now in this time watch this line everything you gave up 100f houses Brethren sisters mothers children lands now oh I got to throw this in there now with persecution I'm the youngest of eight mother pool's baby boy I got saved I can't count the brothers I have wow are y'all here I have three my I call them my four fathers my father Reverend James Reverend Robert James P senior taught me to love the church my my first Pastor real Pastor what my first pastor but my first real Pastor Reverend AJ Thompson taught me to love the word then we moved to St Louis Apostle Lea Ford rice taught me to love my wife then I met Apostle Nathaniel hok and he taught me it's all about Jesus those are my foref fathers wow but I that's because I left my daddy my daddy didn't leave me y'all better I left my daddy and my mama I left everything San and I followed Jesus and over time over listening to me over time without looking for it I got more people that I call my brothers now my prayer Uncle here cousin I mean listen the family is grown are we biological what's greater biological or spiritual you understand so God is added but here's the problem Sharita we want them to add but we want them to subtract at the same time can we get that with no persecution I closed babe I I I was I was dumb I this my little joke to wake y'all up and we go home you know pastor and I was on on on our vacation and um praise the Lord you know we went to Cancun I told her I said babe we got to pick another spot now God God bless more than just one one beach praise the Lord but anyway you know you go to Mexico if you ever been to Mexico you know soon as you get off the plane you come to Vegas soon as you get off the plane you see slot machines you go to Mexico soon as you get off the plane tequila right the tequila right so so we get and we say this one of these all-inclusive uh resources so the Guy meets me that's another message I ain't got the time but I told you if you don't believe God to do the best you will never believe God for the best and therefore you'll always settle for whatever room they give you then y'all ain't got a bigger room than this hold on Mr P let me check here come the guy hi I'm your butler okay and here's some tequila I don't want we don't drink okay wine no wine champagne no I said do you I said you have apple cider he said cider me understand cider I said okay never mind but here's the point every meal every time you sit down what what are you drinking my friend so we she's like well can you mix this and that and there were some drinks we can get they call them mocktails don't y'all act too sad now you know what I'm saying mocktail is the the tequila sunr without the tequila it's just the sunrising do you understand it's the Pina Colada without the the of the peanut you understand but there's some drinks you can't get without that the wine lists this long mocktail list that long cuz you can't experience this drink without that then we got too many Believers that have have not experienced hundredfold cuz you keep wanting it without persecution you can't experience it without that you can't get it Regina you yeah you know you can't get it without that now you can get you can you can get it you can get the houses you can get but don't don't be talking about no hundredfold stuff you can live you can get the life but don't be trying to get abundance you can't get abundance living without that there is no mocktail for abundant livings persecution is a part of it it's just it's it's just a part of it y'all stand to your feet Blanca I you know you're you're chica as you say right Amiga me out babe you know I don't speak English well anyway your sister here right she has a good friend one of her one of her spiritual mentors uh by the name of Eva oh my goodness Eva rasm if Eva was in the born during the the country the the old Wild West she'd they' have hunger I'm telling you or she would have died shooting I mean she's just straight shooter and she she calls a spade a spade without hesitation and this I'll never forget it she said she said Rob they're going to talk about me if I lie or tell the truth they're going to talk about me if I sin or live for God so I said I might as well get talked about doing what God wants me to do Hallelujah I'll never forget it and people talk about her you think Eva Care she said well that's what the Bible says with persecution and I'm I'm telling you Christians act shocked James said why you what's wrong with you what thinking not strange why you acting all all shocked stunned and am maaz you finally started living right J that's where all this hell came from it ain't the devil it's called persecution [Music] the devil mad the devil when was he ever [Music] happy you understand this ain't the devil this is called right living Rejoice don't don't re listen don't retreat Rejoice Rejoice I mean man you got Heaven's attention Rejoice father we thank you tonight that what you're offering us requires the persecution also but we're not afraid of the persecution because if we be honest with ourselves somebody talking anyway somebody didn't like us when we didn't have nothing somebody didn't like us when we barely had anything somebody think we got everything now and still don't like us somebody don't like us because of our gender our height our color our our stance our whether you're independent Democrat Republican it's always somebody going to find a reason not to like me so I might as well let one of those reasons be because of how madly in love I am with you so God I thank you tonight that we the body of Christ here we love you and we don't care who it identifies us with or separates us from we won't choose friends family or foes over you but we go with you all the way we walk through this door and we thank you for the door that Jesus has created for us so we go in and out and every time we come back we bring another person to introduce them to the Savior Jesus Christ this is his name that we believe this to be done and we thank you God that you will grace us to go out of this place but not from your presence to be a representation of who you are in US Let It Shine forth that people will simply use us as a salt lick and be drawn more thirsty for you just because of their encounters with us