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And we praise God uh for the Dream Team holding it down and providing for you uh the word uh both for Sunday and Wednesday but we’re live and In Living Color and we want to welcome first of all we want to thank brother Mike the Mike sounds nice check
One then we want to welcome sister Crystal our our inhouse and then we want to welcome uh Hey Reverend High Smith hey sister Danny hey sister Denise uh uh we’re just grateful for all those who are with us already and we be joining us and for you
Who will catch the replay let us pray almighty God let it rise let your Revelation wisdom knowledge understanding Let It Rise uh and give us what we stand in need of and what we most need is you so we thank you that from this time that we have sitting at
Your feet we will come to know you more clearer love you more dearer and follow you more nearer in Jesus name and by the power of your Holy Spirit dwelling in us we want to say thank you and we say Amen come on Sister Crystal join
Us on the platform how are you I’m doing great sir how are you I’m doing great I’m doing great well without further Ado uh give us uh your uh summation of of of what uh we were able to receive on Sunday Hey sister Bera par how are you
All right you want to read the scripture first I guess that would help let’s let’s do that let’s read the scripture so they can’t say pastor had Real Talk Bible study and there was no scripture read yeah let’s read the scripture and then give the title amen hallelujah Romans 7:1
15-25 the passion translation and here we go I’m a mystery to myself well I want to do what is right but end up doing what my moral instincts condemn and if my behavior avior is not in line with my desire my conscience still confirms the Excellence of the
Law and now I realize that it is no longer my true self doing it but the unwelcome Intruder of sin in my Humanity but I know that nothing good lives within the Flesh of My Fallen Humanity the longings to do what is right are within me but Willow is not
Enough to accomplish it my lofty desire is to do what is good are dashed when I do the things I want to avoid so if my behavior contradicts my desires to do good I must conclude that it’s not my true identity doing it but the unwelcome Intruder of sin hindering me from being
Who I really am through my experience of this principle I discovered that when even excuse me I discover that even when I want to do good evil is ready to sabotage me truly truly truly deep within my true identity I love to do what pleases God but I discern another Power
Operating in my Humanity waging a war against the moral principles of my conscience and bringing me into captivity as a prisoner to the law of sin this unwelcome Intruder in my Humanity what an agonizing situation I am in so who has the power to rescue this miserable man or woman from the
Unwelcome Intruder of sin and death I give all my thanks to God for his mighty power as finally provided a way out through our lord Jesus the anointed one so if left to myself the flesh is aligned with the law of sin and now my renewed mind is fixed on and submitted
To God’s righteous principles TI yall in the name of Jesus we have the victory hashtag this is only the the beginning hey yeah this is only the beginning I think you should just give the benediction well they what they say good meat makes its own gravy so wait that that scripture passage
Provides its own teaching my goodness it was so good and it was such a helpful it was such a helpful word but on Sunday the the title was the same in the name of Jesus we have the victory a post Thanksgiving praise it was Hash a post Thanksgiving praise and you talk started
Talking about Paul like you know Paul was a church Paul wasn’t no little mini Christian he was a really big Christian who you said wrote twoth thirds of the New Testament yeah yeah uh a church planner he wasn’t some weak Christian you said we’re talking about Paul and if
He is writing this what does that say about us come my Paul is G is and then you said how gangster he was because he wrote this letter to Rome introducing himself uh to Rome before he had even uh been there letting them know you said that his issues had issues um
We’re born again into a new family just like when we’re born naturally we as uh we then he talked about his grandparents how you know we notice every little step every little change every little progression of our grandkids and um but when we were raising our kids we were like in
Survival mode just trying to make it uh so we missed we might have missed some but we but we raised and it says we’re born into stages stages uh of Spiritual Development and we as when we first get saved it’s like the honeymoon stage but it which ends at the first
Fight so then he talked about him and Dr Kay and how they had this fight before this coup’s thing they were doing y’all gotta go watch it it was hilarious but the point he was making is that they used that experience of them being angry at each other to be a
Teaching a teaching moment for the couples to learn not to be fake so we’re first born physically then spiritually sin uh our sin nature is born with us we inherit a the a nature that was not godly we can be we can be sabotaged by the enemy in me Christians Christian willpower we
Think it works nope then he talked about how um when we’re on we have property and we’ll we see the deer and we be like look at all this deer on my property but no that was their house we came in and tried to take uh get their property so
You said our fallen nature says I was already here like the deer they we was already here this was our house so our fallen nature was already here we have two Natures two Waring factions working within us before we fight with anyone outside of us we are constantly
Fighting with ourselves God help me please was what I wrote after that that was a good that was a good place to right there that was for me all right it says um it’s it it’s deep with within it’s the fact that God didn’t save us to use our willpower to save
Ourselves so he you know he didn’t save us for us to use our almost done I’m gonna go fast now God knew God had to send God self to give us a new nature we have to use the new nature to save us from the old nature the old nature
Is fueled by will power by willower self-ownership and control we have to learn we have to lean on somebody more powerful than our than our old nature come the new nature requires constant constant surrender to the new nature in other in the name of Jesus I have the
Victory I’m no match for my old nature but it is no match for Jesus my Jesus re rescues us we can’t work our way into the new nature we have to surrender over and over again we compromise the real power in us because we think we only have to surrender one
Time when we get saved my God a constant surrendering not that we wanted to give it all up but want and must surrender it so we might not want to but we have to we have to do it um this life of God is an acquired taste I won’t even tell you
About the acquired taste story right have to go back and listen to that one on the rec yeah don’t tell them don’t tell them everything let them find I can’t tell them that part um so we have to keep on surrendering our will to God to God’s will will on a regular basis
God loves a broken and contrite spirit if God doesn’t help me it’s curtains for me yeah a little bit more we are saying in the name of Jesus the name of Jesus Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit he was born from the line of God born as
A from from born of a virgin named Mary his nature from the very beginning was holy right when I use his name I get the same power he has to overcome my issues Jesus surrendered his divinity to take on Humanity we must s surrender our Humanity to become
Divine I love that I am no n match for my sin nature uh then he talked about y’all got to go back and listen to the about the bully the bully and the fight and then he got his sister’s boyfriend to come and he was big and and into Taekwondo so
He stood when the boyfriend got in between pastor and the bully the bully back down the bully back down and that’s the same power we have like in the name of Jesus so that’s what I put in the name of Jesus um we have the victory in my wow
Great great brother schuer is funny brother schuer is not gonna let you uh uh just you know dominate that okay he’s like he he he’s providing his own commentary and he says Pastor was the first will talk the fresh Pastor was the first fresh I I understand what he’s saying
Now yeah yeah the fresh prince of B air he had to move the B because of a bully yeah you just you moved the buoy I moov still with a be just just just just not Belling oh my god brother brother Scher is hilarious that’s funny uh yeah
Uh let me read what Denise is saying hey Reverend Lois car right hey classmate she says Romans uh do what is good even when it goes against your true nature by going against your true nature only then may we in the newest of God be our true
I I got you yeah yeah so so literally um you know we’re saying in the name of Jesus we have the victory because that that’s absolutely the truth um however somebody shout however however it’s only the beginning that’s that’s the beginning that’s the beginning that’s the beginning that’s
The beginning of our walk that’s the beginning of our maturity that that is absolutely the beginning we we are we are learning remember when we are born again it means born of God uh so Jesus uh is not just our lord Jesus not just our savior Jesus our
Model and our spiritual template meaning that uh just like Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit our birth is our spiritual birth is a conception also of and by the Holy Spirit it is a spiritual birth it’s we’re born again we’re born uh there’s two births that can happen
For a human being it’s by water and by the Spirit by water is the physical birth the water breaks the baby’s born right uh uh then then by spirit it’s all by it’s all the work of the Holy Spirit just I want yall to understand that that just as Jesus birth was a
Spiritual and physical birth he was born into this world but he was conceived by the Holy Spirit our our spiritual birth being born again is conceived by the Holy Spirit by way of believing in our heart come on y’all and confessing with our mouth uh that God raised Jesus from
The dead there’s many different faiths many different religious paths uh I I love ours because ours is just downright gangster how so Pastor we believed y’all got to hear this we believe somebody was dead and God raised him back up from the dead and he was shown by many proofs
That he existed for over 50 some days uh uh and over 500 people it says in the Bible uh uh uh witness that he had resurrected from the dead uh and and and that is where I we we we believe that we our our our Christian belief we don’t
Our Christian family don’t agree on a lot of things we fight about a lot of things but there one thing we don’t fight about we don’t fight about uh the fact that we believe that God raised Jesus from the dead that is that is our confession of faith that is that is what
When we believe that in our heart and we confess that with our mouth we are born again born of God uh why why uh because uh to believe that is to believe the impossible I’m ready to run I’m ready to run y’ Mike got it Mike got it I saw you Mike
To believe that is to believe the impossible now now now listen to this if we can believe if if I’m born again born of God by My Confession of faith that God raised Jesus from the dead I am I am believing the impo The Impossible by all human standards experience and
Life if I can believe the impossible that makes me born again and born of God that is only the beginning I’m not supposed to stop right and so if if that’s my if that’s my entry if that’s my entrance into the family of God by that confession of Faith then why
Can’t I also believe that when I deal with my old nature all I have to Simply say is in the name of Jesus we have the victory right yeah you know so so so that’s not a that’s not far reaching because my confession of Faith lands me into the impossible
Real made possible it lands me into the me uh Expecting The Impossible that lands me into always looking for a miracle it lands me into being able to feel the intang intangible the being able to see the invisible um when we are born again we’re born of God but we’re also Born
Into The Arena the kingdom of God are y’all listening right and so the truth of the matter is is that’s only the beginning because now we must learn how to walk and talk just like a baby in the physical learns how to come on y’all walk and and talk and and and
Begin to discover itself in in in in in in in in a a new kind of way uh no longer in the womb but out of the so so we are now discovering I want y’all hear this how to walk and how to talk right and and and and so there is a
A uh it is not strange here we go it is not strange uh to us if a uh Latino baby born into a Latino family begins to speak Spanish that’s not strange it’s not strange as if a Asian baby is born to an Asian family and begins to speak
Chinese right so we are born again into the family of God and we must speak the god language and the god language come on y’all to the Natural born ear sounds the same as Chinese sounds to me watch this I don’t understand what they’re saying and the language of God are y’all
Ready for this Mike I came here for this one well about to say now the language of God is Faith hey faith faith faith faith faith why is that the language of God because that’s that that that that that you that when you said I believe in my
Heart and confess with my mouth that God raised Jesus from the dead that’s impossible and to believe it takes faith in in in someone much larger than ourselves and so you know you know how they say that the U man this is such a good real talk I gotta share this with
Know how they say that the um uh I just saw this on that series called chosen that the uh that it’s not the size of your faith but it’s who you put your it’s it’s who you put your faith in it’s not the size of your faith your faith can be
The size of Mustard Seed and it’s very small it’s smaller than the tip of your finger but if that sized faith is placed in a supersized God then it will accomplish whatever it needs to accomplish and so it’s not it’s not the size of your faith it’s who you place
That faith in and and and so when we are born again and born of God we learn how to walk and talk faith that is the language of the kingdom of God within you and all around you all right and and and and so when when we say in the name of
Jesus we have the victory that’s just the beginning of our our of the way we ought to talk all right and and and when we say oh I’m no match for my Fallen nature that was here before my new nature but my Fallen nature is no match for God that’s that’s
That’s Faith talk right that’s and and Faith talk is confidence faith is confidence confidence is Faith but it’s not just faith in and of itself it’s faith in God right it’s not just confidence in and of yourself or just in yourself is confidence in the holy
Spirit of God dwelling within you and so we we are you are you are on whether you consciously know it or not you are on track even when you delay it even when you sabotage it you are on track even if your development is slow you are on track
Um uh uh to to learn um and and and and and and imitate your new family it says um imitate God like children imitate their parents it’s called it’s in Ephesians 51 y’all can see it for yourself Ephesians 51 said imitate and and so the Bible is
Not just for your reading purposes it’s for you to learn how to imitate imitate God imitate Jesus come on y’all imitate the Holy Spirit I mean learn learn your learn your language one one of the things that um uh is on my bucket list is I want to learn how to
Speak Spanish fluent fluently right and and I haven’t even taken that the last time I took a Spanish course I was uh I was in the eighth grade that was the last time I took a Spanish and um and of course me and my boys we was talking and laughing
Cutting up in scho during the time the teacher was teaching and it was a short Spanish lady very petite and and she said to me one time along with my other uh uh buddies she said Harold you gonna need this one day and you know I was
Like I speak English you know how we can be us Americans we can be so arrogant with the language with the English language and how about when uh we had the opportunity to go to coost Rica H how about I realize we we need to Humble ourselves English ain’t all
That because there was a whole lot of folk around me comfortably speaking their language and I had no idea what they were saying here’s the scary part many of them already knew what I was saying CU they were already bying they many of them watch this y’all was born into bilingual
Family so they heard both now I I need to tell y’all something I was born into a bi a spiritually bilingual family I heard my mother and father speak natural and Supernatural language I heard them speak come on y’all regular human language and then I would hear them speak the faith God
Faith talk language how what you mean I would hear them talk about things that needed to happen and I would hear my mother say well honey you know God’s Gonna Make A Way and my little natural ears was like how go how God gonna make a
Way but I heard it and I began unknowingly by osmosis learn learn the second language of my family okay okay okay okay okay okay y y’all got to get this is it anybody anybody want comment is is look I feel like uh I feel like on Rush
Hour do you understand the words that are coming out you know definitely understand it Pastor because you know I think about you know bless God bless my mom and dad they were not the churchgoing crowd they weren’t that’s all right I didn’t grow up um it
Starts with you in the bilingual yeah I grew up on you know so I had to learn I had to take Spanish classes I gotta and I had a friend whose family was bilingual so I would go with them on Sunday and I still heard the faith talk
And then my grandma and family members you know just poured poured it into me where I wanted to know God I wanted wow and uh you know it’s it’s it’s been nothing but great but I get I get it I get the two the bilingual I get yeah
Yeah yeah so so when we say in the name of Jesus we have that’s that’s only the beginning of our our our our our our King language which is Faith U we I mean uh faith is it says in the beginning was the word and the word became
Flesh and the word uh became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld the glory of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth and and so you know that is the first cousin to Genesis uh where it says uh in the beginning God
Said so so um so so so when we are learning come on y’all of the family language and we’re in a process to become bilingual we can talk natural language and we can talk Supernatural language are y’all are y’all getting this she said understand being exposed to the spiritual language will
Enable will enable to understand and speak oh come on that’s so so so and trust me I’m not even talking tongues yet I’m not talking tongues yet I’m not talking tongues yet I’m getting there but I’m not talking I’m talking about I’m talking about um I’m talking about when you uh
Are beginning to understand that the Bible is God breed it’s the very substance of God uh the very substance of God is transmitted into the scriptures right very substance and so when we’re reading the word of God we’re not reading just for knowledge right we’re reading for absorption we’re read we we’re reading
To like a sponge soak up the substance of God and the Very substance the very essence of God uh is love come on y’all uh and and and the the the the the very function of that love is faith says the these three things remain
Faith hope and and what love and the the greatest of them is what love and and it’s only the greatest when it’s talking about uh the what the motivation of God is always love come on y’all that’s ridiculous motivation of God’s always
Love so so um um Dr K and I used to ask each said what’s your motivation what what’s your why well when we’re talking about now when we’re talking me and Dr K it could be a thousand different a pleora of of of of of of motivations and
Motives and and why when we’re talking about God God has one motive God has one why it’s love okay I’m I’m done God has one motive one one why God is infinite awareness God is omniscience God knows all God God God God God is everywhere at the same time
God is all powerful but God but God only has one why love God is what love and so and so and so the function the activity of that love uh is is is is is expressed through God’s word and uh uh God’s word it says faith cometh by Hearing the word of God and so that’s how Faith Comes our confidence our trust our belief comes by hearing the word and so it is important that you understand that that to say in the name of Jesus we have the victory is only the beginning uh of what you will continue to
Hear you understand what I’m saying so so when you have a baby born into a bilingual family or or or you just have a baby born into the a family that doesn’t speak English the baby doesn’t even know how to read yet but the baby learns how to talk by just
Hearing baby learns how to communicate before they can even read by just hearing so so so so when when you are hearing oh my God so faith comes by here so when you are hearing this faith is coming your language is coming your Lang how to speak is coming
How to speak is is learning you you know you it’s teaching you how to speak um and and and and so Sunday was just a first you you ever you ever need to take a one1 course but they said because you didn’t have any of the prerequisites for
This one you got to take 100 so Sunday was a one no I’m I’m just telling myself when I went to Hampton I was like when I got accepted Hampton I was like I was like this I knew I was a smart black man I knew I was boy you couldn’t tell me
Nothing until we took that one test at freshman year they they want to see where you are in your English and in your in your math and when I got my results I had to take English 100 and math 100 my first semester freshman year I said oh Lord
But guess what I I took that course and then I moved on to the second semester English 101 math 101 but first semester it it was math and English 100 and so Sunday was Faith 100 Faith language 100 and and all you had to do was hear it and repeat
It hear it and repeat that that’s why uh Faith cometh by hearing and hearing the word of God and and so we learn the faith language come on y’all we learn the faith walk we learn the faith talk by what hearing Pastor I’m learning the second language as you teach it to us
I’m learning it little by little it’s on a slow burn but I’m getting it faster I’m learning the second langage that you are that’s it that’s it sister Denise that you uh the the the the the the best thing you will ever pay for is attention y’all got it come on y’all
You’re you’re you’re the best thing you will ever pay is attention is attention you want to go somewhere if you want to be somebody you better wake up and pay what attention and so and so so literally um it’s one thing to be born again and
Born of God but now you know you’re part of the god family and and and and and the god family just like any family has a a dominant language that is spoken and in the god family it’s only one language and that’s Faith that’s the fa and so it’s all it
In the name of Jesus we have that’s that’s that’s only the beginning and and and in the name of Jesus we have the victory that that’s that’s that’s what um uh newborn babes in Christ and and and toddlers in Christ and come on that that’s that that’s what
We begin to use to basically build our confidence come on y’all in in the not our ability but God’s ability uh and and as we grow in that y’all got to hear this as we grow in that we begin to synergize the power of God not outside of
Us but we begin to accept that oh this power is dwelling on the inside of me right and and and and and and so and and so literally as you grow in that your confidence grows and you begin to close the gap of where God is and where you
Are you know uh when we first get saved and we are born again and born of God into the family of God we are always looking up when we refer to God but as you grow and walk and talk and and uh become intimate with God through God’s
Word and through through prayer and spending time with God and mainly through worship W through the worship of God mainly through worship uh that that that’s intimate come on y’all mainly through worship uh then what happens is uh instead of when you refer to God instead of you always looking up you
Begin to look in Hallelujah and and and and and and and then as you begin to look in you begin to look in the mirror so you can see God for yourself because God is looking back at you through your own eyes Okay Okay that was too much okay come on now all
Right um Pastor you said we have to absorb the word yeah yeah and that that’s where I’m still stuck right there because I’m I’mma read it I’mma read it to you it’s hey y’all somebody go to uh 1 Timothy 36 and 17 and let me see if some of
Y’all can type it the passion translation has to be the passion translation and and and and see if you can put that up in the chat it’s two verses but I’m going read it to you but you know a picture is always worth a thousand words uh and and what uh Second Timothy
3:16 And1 17 the passion translation uhuh I’m G ready read it to you I’m find it it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s Rich it’s it’s just it Nails it it Nails it I gave it to the men one day M and let me read it here it is second Timothy
3 16 and and it reads God has transmitted his very substance into every scripture for it is God breathed it will Empower You by its instruction and correction give giving you the strength to take the right direction and Lead You deeper into the path of godliness then you will be God’s servant fully
Mature and perfectly prepare to fulfill any assignment God gives you and so let me share with you another way to understand it I am or you are or we are not yet fully matured and perfectly prepared to fulfill any assignment God gives us so God hasn’t given it to you
Yet because God says your only assignment is to absorb my word that will get you ready come on that will get you ready and on the path of godliness so that you will become that you will be God’s servant fully mature per perfectly prepared you have to be fully matur and
Perfectly prepared to fulfill any assignment God gives you and that only comes by way of God’s word remember Faith coming by here and here and so when we don’t yet have our assignment from God the placeholders are our will and our assignments that we want God to bless
But they’re not assignments from God so so what we do what we do is we we treat we treat the scripture as like a Part-Time Lover you know we’ll see you when we can see you but but but but but God’s word is the main squeeze God’s word is the main
Thing and so and so until we have y’all got to hear this until we have uh uh the until we are on the path of godliness that involves God’s word on a daily basis until we have that um and it is providing for us the the N nutrients the spiritual
Nutrients that we need to grow and develop and to be fully mature it it’s just like you cannot have a baby be born and not feed the baby and and what happens you know to that baby if you keep feeding it that baby’s gonna start growing and growing
Up and even though the baby’s eating and the baby’s growing that baby is not ready for certain kind of responsibilities that you and I take for grant that baby and so there are things God has uh there are assignments from God with your name on it and you’re
Not going to yet know about it until until you it I’m I’m gonna read to you what it says uh uh until you until you become fully mature and perfectly prepared to fulfill any assignment God gives you and so um a lot of times people say God I
Just want to know what your will is God the two things the reason why um you it’s hard for you to know God’s will is it’s because you are God’s will you are God’s will in the Earth but but you’re not you’re not matured yet you’re you’re not ready yet
And and and so you think that that there’s other things for you to do but the number one thing to do is get to know God clearer love God dear follow God near how do you do that through God’s word how are you doing it right
Now by you listening right now live or you will be listening by way of Replay and and so you know I I never forget one time I took a chance uh when we were back on Silver Hill Road we were uh referred to as Hunter back then I was
Teaching in the Bible study and I said you know um one of the best things you can do is get to know God through God’s word and I said that’s a full-time job and then I said hold up y’all don’t think that I’m telling you go quit your
Job and read the Bible all day that’s that is not what I’m I’m saying what I’m saying is you want to treat it like it supposed to be treated like it is a priority and and so I challenged I think I went too far I lost some chrst I said
It U what’s the longest movie you ever watched somebody holl out Gone With the Wind and watch going with the win I’m going tell you something when that thing said intermission going with the win in so long that it it literally while you’re watching it it comes to an
Intermission and then it continues and then the other one was Titanic so those are the two longest movies I’ve ever watched right and check this out I did not move I stay right there and and and and I challenged them and I said I I you
Know I was young I was I was not as mature and gracious as I am now I was like if you can’t if you can’t read the word of God equal to watching the movie uh you will never ever uh be able to uh uh uh maximize your potential as a son
Or daughter of God and I was serious I meant that thing and I still do but I say with much more love now [Laughter] wowow but it when we are able to give our Attention our attention to God that’s the thing we will mature in so people are mature
Fools people are mature Helens people are mature troublemakers people are mature you that’s what they gave their attention to yeah and so when you give your attention oh my God come on y’all when you give your attention to the word of God and you read stuff like this God
Has transmitted his very substance into every scripture oh or it is God breathe let me let me tell you something so some people okay put those back up let me read read what they’re saying because I got to tell y’all something deep you better wake up and pay okay pastor you
Are giving us real full teaching amen what you say uh uh I’m a wobbler in God’s CL going with the win is three hours and 58 minutes long oh my God that must be do doc Dr K must be Dr K oh no that’s Mike thank you Mike thank you Mike wow
And Mike I I watched the whole movie wow that’s crazy so so let me just so I’mma read this again and I’m going give y’all a real life way to understand this so it says it says God has transmitted his very substance into every scripture
For it is God breed and now when you first hear that oh wow thank y’all whoever put that up there when you first hear thanks Mike when you first hear that you’re like what what but y’all don’t don’t don’t trip because you know what this means and I’m about to tell
You what it means so uh my my second semester of uh uh my sophomore year uh at Hampton I had just finished pledging the fraternity Dr K had just finished pledging the SAR and I literally gave I gave um I was a little popular and I gave a going
Over party at where I live my roommate he had just just going over Alpha I went over Kappa and uh he was a little popular with his Circle I was popular with my circle and so we gave a going over party the Deltas were going
Over we we had gone over the day before the sororities and so the saris were going over the day I was giv a party so they want somewhere to celebrate and so I mean I was charging 50 cents 50 cents now now I’m G tell y’all something I was charging 50 cents we
Made $400 that let you know how many people came wow how many people came through because the the house was jumping oh and and and so and so uh I I never forget because me and my roommate the next day we took 200 and we went food shopping you thought we thought we
We bought so much food we thought we was wealthy and so while I was at that party Dr K and I tried to uh date a little bit first semester but both of us was trying to pledge and so it never really really got good traction but I knew I really
Liked her I didn’t know if she really liked me so I’m at the party y’all and I’m talking smack to some girl right and somebody Taps me on the shoulder and it was Dr cat she had just gone over Delta and and I turned around I said said what
Are you doing here and you know with a big smile on my face and she said I came to see you well that was it I I don’t even know what happened to the other girl I love it mik Mike I don’t know what happened to
It that was it all she wrote it it was seal I knew I like Dr k i you know y’all women y’all betime y’all don’t disclose fully but when she said I can’t came to see you I mean she’s at my place the party is jumping she said I came to see
You that was that was it now I’m about to help y’all understand this portion where it says God has transmitted his very substance into every scripture for it is God breath so the semester ended Reverend Kelly’s from Cleveland I’m from Philly so where did Reverend Kelly go back to
Cleveland or there some way that go back to feel me we didn’t have text back then we didn’t have email all we had was letter writing and when I wrote her letters I transmitted the very substance oh of how I felt about her and when she wrote me she
Transmitted the very substance of how she felt about me and when I read her letter to me I felt her yeah when she read my letter to her she felt me yeah so so this is not beyond our comprehension so when I wrote to her I
Never lied when I said I love you when I said I miss you when I said I can’t wait to see you when I talked about come on y’all how her hair smelled to me and how her what I can’t I can’t say everything
Right now but when I when I said it when I said it I’m meant it meant it yeah okay when God says what God says God means it as as the urban saying God ain’t lied yet and so when I was writing my my boo letters there was there was no room for
Lying there was nothing but truth because the the love come on demanded truth oh okay okay the love demanded truth that’s all right so God is love and and and and God’s love demands truth so so when we are reading the word of God we are experiencing the very
Substance of God uh the very love of God the very truth of God and and and when we continue to nurture ourselves with the word of God it then empowers Us by its instruction and then it corrects us come on y’all and it gives us the strength to
Take right direction and it leads us deeper into the path of godliness and what’s the end uh uh of the road of godliness y’all want to know what the end of the road of godliness is maturity becoming God’s servant perfectly prepared to fulfill any assignment God gives us oh my God it’s
804 my god I didn’t even know I was over to oh my God y’all all I wanted to say to you tonight was in the name of Jesus we have the victory y’all that’s only the beginning that’s only the beginning that’s that’s that’s that’s that’s only the beginning that’s class
100 oh my God y’all tell me come on somebody type your takeway we gotta get out of here it’s 804 can I just say that I this is why I join this church because we get the word to help us live my and we learn learn how
To read the word and and absorb that whole AB absorption thing is real we learn how to read it and absorb it and use it to be better wow to walk in what God has for us like you said that that um assignment to fulfill the
Assignments we are we are we are we are sponges and you know anything about a sponge is that you take a sponge and you throw it in a bucket of water you won’t even have to leave it there long you can literally take a sponge and dip it in a
Bucket and when you pull it back up it has that in that moment of time it has absorb and when you pick it back up you have to squeeze it it could be y’all okay let’s do it like this Harold thank you Holy Spirit it could be bone dry a bone dry
Sponge I’m trying to help somebody out because there are seasons when you just a bone dry you’re bone dry but you’re a sponge so there’s still hope and and and uh I have been I have had Seasons where I was a bone dried sponge and all of a
Sudden I came smack dab into contact with the water of the word and what happens to a sponge when you have a bone dry sponge and you throw it in a bucket of water gu full quick quick so what was once dry you now okay I’m the only one that used to
Get in trouble in school and I had to clean the uh the Blackboard doing recess come on Mike I can’t be the only one no that was y’all remember that when you got in trouble and you stayed in you had to watch the kids play outside and
And they would make you uh watch the black boys and you first have to erase them with the erase the lons and then you they would give you a sponge and get bucket of water man man I’m the only one who got in trouble like that and then
You had to and and and and she she used to say and and you got to squeeze that sponge out uh you would squeeze a sponge out uh so you can then it’s still damp good and damp and then clean the board so I’m saying you can go if a dry bone
If a bone dry sponge can immediately be to can immediately soak up to it to its capacity water when it’s dipped into a bucket of water Hallelujah and and when it squeeze what comes out is what went in how much more if we are dipped into the
Water of the word and when we are when we are squeezed when others come in contact what has been absorbed in will come out come out you know what all right that’s that’s enough you know what that’s just good the Titanic movie is 3 hours and 15 minutes
Wow so so going with the wind was 3 hours and 58 Long minutes Titanic and I sat and watch both of them I’m just saying because I’m a little bit more mature now I’m just saying I ohow God three hours and 58 minutes of uninterrupted attention I oh
God three hours and 15 minutes and and there will be other movies I will watch football games okay why you do that sisr now you know see why now see why she do that Mike she know I’m a die hard Eagles F and y’all know I was right
In front of that tube for that Sunday gang come on come on there Mike I don’t know why she did that hey Mike she trying to expose my my sinful ways she mine too mine too but Mike Mike what what would be one of your takeaways you you you’ve been
Here uh my main takeaway since I’ve been at this church and included in what you said tonight is God is love God is love I and and if you begin right there just realize how much difference that makes is love nothing else nothing more nothing less love
Wow I love it I love it Kris did you give us your takeaway I did it’s just about the absorption you know yeah and and the like you said the sponge and it you know when you put a dry sponge in you squeeze out what you what went in it
Yeah and and when you when you when you’re soaked in the word of God what’s going to come out is Love and Truth or or I like to say what the Bible says she said Reverend Lois M said period uh uh it says the word of God was
Full of grace and truth so when when somebody squeeze on you all they should be getting is Grace and Truth that is correct and Truth in the spirit of Grace right look and if they’re not getting that then you got to check what you’ve been soaking
In look at look you done win a whole another right C what what what what what goes in is what comes out comes out what you know what well y’all look this church so SE uh uh give a give a give a offering give God a praise equivalent to how you
Feel about God uh if you got time before they put up that that last song but to drop us your your your takeaway and I mean uh we went overtime and I just did this in in in in solidarity with the game on this past Sunday they went into
Overtime they went to 10 minutes overtime I’m I’m 11 minutes over time and and and we just we just praise God thank you brother Mike thank you sister Crystal thank you all all for participating sister Denise uh sister Danny uh Reverend cartright Reverend High Smith Brother
Schuer uh thank thank y’all we we love y’all and if you catch this on the replay uh uh uh uh uh tag share like comment um uh it says Avengers endgame three hours and two minutes oh man and I watched that too I didn’t even realize I
Knew it was long I didn’t even realize it was three hours so I watched that too yeah yeah I Lov it I ohow God three times I owe God three hours and 58 minutes I owe God three hours and 15 minutes and I owe God three hours and two minutes and I don’t
Mind giving God that time because guess what I reap all the benefits I reap all the benefits yes sir H Crystal close us out in a word of prayer absolutely father God in the name of Jesus Lord we come lifting you up once again you are an awesome and wonderful God that we
Love so much because you love us and we are just so grateful for your love your grace your mercy we’re grateful for your word we’re grateful for our pastor and the way that you pour into him so that he can pour into us God we thank you for real power we thank you
For talk Bible study we thank you for constantly visiting us and sitting in the midst we appreciate you so much and uh just bless your name as we all go our separate ways on this evening bless us and be with each of us is our prayer in
Jesus name amen amen hey look y’all want to see Catch y’all in person at church school Sunday at 9 o’clock you will not be disappointed it will be a great time it’s gonna be a special subject uh area that brother Charles schuur will cover Hallelujah you don’t want to miss it I
Ain’t gonna spoil it brother schuer this is the time now you can you you you can release it you know what I’m talking about you know what I’m talking about brother Scher it’ll be fine to now proceed so y’all with what I just did that’s called salting you and it’s it’s
It’s it’s a it’s a juicy subject too right right it’s right where we are and brother schuur is gonna facilitate that in the morning and and you you there’ll be a followup praise the Lord love you y’all have a wonderful evening me too And near to me closer to me Jesus don’t let me go no other help I know Jesus Jesus Oh Come fight for me you make the darkness please Jesus and I can do anything as you strengthen me Jesus but when the enemy tries to come Fort me I will not fear because you pray for Me I my peace in you Jesus Jesus in you Jesus Jes Jesus life found in you love being known by you Jesus emotions will rise and fall but you are my anchor Lord Jesus and when the enemy just the LI to me I will believe the truth you’ve given me I my peace in you Jesus Jesus all of my
Joy in you Jesus Jesus and I am sure that you’ll never leave me you never forsake me now I my you Jesus When I look around and everything’s crazy you are still God that never changes in the midst of my fears and my indecision you are my focus fixed in my vision I look around everything’s crazy you are still God that never change in the face of my fear and my indecision you are
Still I found in you Jesus Jesus all of my GL you Jesus Jesus and I am sure that you’re not leave me never forsake me now I my in you Jesus Jesus Jus Jesus Jesus Inus
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