← ArchiveB2StartSunday, September 9, 2018DateSeptember 9, 2018Speaker—TextMatthew 16Passages in this sermonMatthew 16:13–186:33Matthew 1611:52Romans 10:1714:17Matthew 2824:06Ephesians 1:326:38TranscriptClick any line to jump there.0:00the word gospel translates to news that brings joy but this isn't just any news a gospel is news that changes a life forever after being invaded and enslaved by Persia Greece won two decisive battles at Marathon and Solas the Greeks sent out heralds also called evangelists to proclaim the good news to the cities we have fought for you we have won and now you're no longer slaves0:24you're free the reality is that we are all slaves slaves to sin and slaves to death we are slaves in need of good news enter Jesus God's Son fully God fully man bringing news that would change our lives forever his news was this I am the divine come to you to do what you could not do for yourself I will0:50take what you deserve so you can have what I deserve you have no idea how much it will cost me but you also cannot imagine the depths of my love for you it is a gift that I give freely so repent repent from all the ways you run from me and follow me follow me because I am the only way to eternal life follow me because I'm the Savior you've been looking for follow me because I have authority over everything1:20yet I have humbled myself for you follow me because I died on a cross for you because I'm your true love and your true life this is my good news for you this is my gospel that you have been saved by grace and that you are slaves no more2:14one plea but that thy blood was shed for me and that thou bidst me come y'all not ready for church this morning there's a lamb of God who's come and I have the presence of2:39mind to understand that there are many of us who've come as well and we don't think it's a safe enough place to respond your pastor has extended the invitation for a brother from another mother to be a part of this experience and just help me preach in the very onset of the message turn to somebody and say it's a safe place today3:04y'all didn't sound like you meant that I don't know if it's really am I in the right place Pastor Josh so let's do this I often get a chance to travel and I applaud those who are military servicemen service women who protect our shores from encroachment those who are those keeping the gate and we need to celebrate3:27did you hear the phone ring that was God saying celebrate those who protect our shores our cities yeah hallelujah but I must be repentant because it's far too rare that we publicly appreciatively applaud the men and women who3:49protect our soul so right now I want to thank God for your pastor Josh thank you for allowing me to be here his bride Casey met me in the parking lot and said I'm so glad that you're here I know you look like Denzel and it's a wonderful no she didn't say that she didn't say that she didn't say any of that but she did welcome me onto the campus I want to thank a long time brother and friend whose diapers I used to change4:18Brad Tollison for being in the midst and his bride Jessica for allowing me to be here so today it is my humble privilege to invite you to get off your blessed assurance and do something about the word you cannot sit idly by and expect that this message can go in one ear and out thee4:42I pray that you didn't come here looking at me looking at you to look at me I pray this morning is a day of decision where say here I am God speak your servant is going to listen and respond so the call to worship welcome to church is an invitation for you to get personal5:04to get public to get focused and to get intentional I know what we need to do y'all remember Simon says y'all remember it's the game where Simon tells you to do something and then you do that can we do one quick round one just stay with me Simon says stand this might be the last time everybody stands in the midst of the worship encounter Simon says put your right hand in put your right hand out5:34oh see those who did it wrong you maybe Simon didn't tell you to Simon says put your right hand in again shake it all about I cannot believe y'all even did this everybody have a seat this is amazing all of y'all just lost Simon did not say sit down but what I do need to service notice concerning is that too often in this life's journey we do a lot of listening to Simon6:01and very little listening to Savior today is not about your way it's about Yahweh and he's come to arrest our ADD attention that we would know what he has in store for us so I want you to turn your attention6:30to what Jesus says in Matthew chapter 16 verse 13 through 18 what Jesus says helps us celebrate those who protect our souls what Jesus says makes the environment of welcome to church back into the fellowship or in the fellowship for the first time a safe place to truly respond6:59what Jesus says invites those who argued all the way to church this morning to have peace in the household anybody if you know someone on your road who argued to get here don't look at them blink at me right quick blink at me in the car that discussion was had you make me sick well you always make me late well your mama no your mama then you get here hallelujah praise the Lord it's a wonderful day in the neighborhood hypocrisy knowing what Jesus says7:28helps me to deal with those who called me before I got here and they said I'm going through divorce again and I don't know if that particular fellowship will welcome me and I'm not talking about Bethel I'm talking about fellowships that gather at addresses around the globe that make it unsafe to deal with your dilemma when you're most needy for the Lamb of God7:56who takes away the sins of the world anybody ready today to not do church light anyone come desiring the more of the one who came seeking to save those who are lost I gave you time to find Matthew in this 16th chapter the word of the Lord says when Jesus came to Moody Alabama I mean Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples8:24who do people say the son of man is and he asked me the same question today on my 50th birthday who do you say the son of man is they replied some say John the Baptist others Elijah and still others Jeremiah are one of the prophets but Jesus gets real personal and he asked what about you? Simon Peter who had foot and mouth disease spoke up8:53spoke up you ever know those people who will say something before they think it through who already have spoken before it was time to be in the speaking realm Peter says you are the Christ son of the living God and Jesus replied in a way that blesses he said blessed are you son of Jonah for this was not revealed to you by man but by the father in heaven and I tell you that you are9:23Petros Peter and on this rock I build my church and the gates of Hades will not overcome it this morning this morning I invite you to what is personal I invite you to what is purposeful I invite you to what is positional and I'm inviting you to what is powerful I'll give it to you again for the sea personalities that said what in the world I'm going to tell you what I'm going to tell you then I'm going to tell you9:53then I'm going to tell you what I told you because that's good homiletic and hermeneutic preaching I'm going to tell you five things that Jesus said and the five things are personal say personal purposeful positional they are prayerful and they're powerful let's go to work I'm still in the text because what Jesus says in five challenging assignments10:22assignments is first personal he calls on us to understand when he asks who do you say I am that you can't call a committee to answer that for you that's not a committee on a committee on a committee to tell you the colors of the carpet and what kind of lily pads to put in the baptistry it's personal the question gets underneath your skin because he who had no skin put on skin to get in your skin when you see10:51this text you understand that I know that my 2017 was rough Chauvin had some hiccups some bumps some monkey wrenches in my program some oops upside the head a sucker punch here and there 2017 that's why God gave you 2018 for a fresh encounter and start I wrote my own amens preach Mike amen and when you see the text then you begin to realize you are a part11:20of a prophecy you are a part of what is being fulfilled not when you get as old as Pastor Josh who looks every bit of 17 you get an understanding that there's prophecy being filled watch this today in your hearing right now it's not church light it's not church like you've always known it it is church relevant it is church rhema it is church needed and necessary11:49and necessary it is prophecy being fulfilled today in Matthew 16 Jesus gets personal but he assures in the challenge that on him the rock statement of the gospel salvation he would build his church a congregation that is the ecclesia which is transliterated free people look at your neighbor and ask are you free now help me preach tell him tell your face I'm free you're looking at a free black man12:19black man cause nothing about Mike Satterfield and slavery go together that's like spandex and obesity at Walmart you seen it I was there last night Jesus take the wheel 75 years of age with juicy written get back in the vehicle let me get back to my assignment it's personal and he assures that a congregation of ecclesia free people are assigned12:48are assigned to look again at the word and live like you are set free cause whom the son is set free he or she is free indeed that's grinning rights with all 32 how many teeth you got left I'm free and that's personal for me because I'm sure his disciples scratched their head and they looked at Jesus when he asked who do you say I am and they began to among themselves say the last sermons he preached ran some folk off he's talking about13:17eat his body and drink his blood I didn't sign up for the cannibalism part of the fellowship and people and people and people then show forth that in discipleship you get some fair weathered friends those who are with you ride or die if the season's going well and the team is victorious but as soon as somebody drops them I say you drop the football and you don't score the touchdown and then we're checking out the church down the street around the corner13:47with the sign in the lawn saying coming soon I look at this and I see that it's personal and he says who do you say I am and Peter spoke up and today I'm looking for a Peter I'm looking for a Petros I'm looking for at least a Patricia somebody who will say you are who exactly you've told us you'd be the son of the living God he is here he's personal and this is how in depth it gets14:16he uses a Romans 10 17 to help me with my Matthew 16 and in the text he says faith comes by hearing the gospel God life message and that God life message is the word that you must adhere to it's not what Simon says it's every bit of what Jehovah says and what he wanted to say was Jesus period is enough to soothe every doubt to calm every fear to bid you to come14:45unto him all who are weary and heavy laden 2017 messed up but take heart and take my yoke for my yoke is easy my burden is light and when you come to me all who are weary and heavy laden I'll give you peace for your soul on the count of three inhale one two three exhale wouldn't it be a good Sunday that's how you truly left service and beat the Methodist to the restaurant the word shows me15:13that Christ calls us to understand something how can you call on the one in whom you've not believed it's personal how can you hear except a preacher be sent it's personal and how do your feet look this Sunday morning because they're beautiful if you take the word and you adhere to it and put it in shoe leather and walk it out it's personal some of you are looking at me like a calf at a brand new gauge but it's personal15:42this passage of Matthew 16 to me because my mother called and said I hate your daddy I'm like excuse me he took another drink he'd been sober for years but indulged because of a diagnosis of cancer on the prostate went to get it checked out took a sliver came back benign and to celebrate16:11y'all don't want to have church I came to be real I came not to talk at you but I'm a fellow struggler among you and the struggle is real it's personal because I didn't call you to go to San Antonio Texas where my father hails and have a conversation with him but I got on a plane and went to my father to discuss again with him face to face behold the lamb in your Caesarea Philippi16:38i came that you father would understand you're going to lose the best thing that has ever happened to you and that is that woman hanging with you like a loose tooth and when you recognize this father of mine you got to understand what can wash away your sin it's not the things we get in politics it's not the stuff we have in family pedigree it is nothing17:07but the blood of Jesus what can make you whole again nothing but the blood of oh precious is the flow that makes me white as snow no other fountain no nothing but the blood are you washed are you washed I'm getting personal now not your neighbor not the folk you could elbow not ain't Gertie who didn't make it this Sunday but are you washed in the blood in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb are your garments spotless are you white as snow are you washed in the blood17:37of the lamb I told my father behold the lamb that takes away your sin because this just got personal but scripture is not just personal in Matthew chapter 16 guess what else it says when he asks who do you say that I am he also poses the question of purposeful it's not personal alone it's also purposeful look at verse 17 of the 16th chapter it says in the word18:07of God Jesus replied blessed are you Simon son of Jonah for this was not revealed to you by any man but by the father who is in heaven it's purposeful because in this 17th verse God had a plan to bless 40 years ago I bought into the plan and I gathered around it with some other people 40 years ago I decided I didn't know if the plan would work18:37would work and the gathering would sustain but there were faithful believers who saw me ordained in my complete commitment to the Lord and on the statement which is the rock bed understanding living he loved me dying he saved me buried he carried my sin far away rising he justified he freed me forever and one day he's coming back are you going to sit like a bump on a log if it's today when invitation is extended will you stiff arm and say not for me19:06this is too charismatic and God is saying no this is purpose and if you've been stuck and if you've been attacked and if you've been in warfare and the struggle has gripped you today is a good day to find a new purpose to press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling which is in Christ Jesus no none of us have already attained it but one thing we could do forget what happened 25 minutes ago when you were mad in the car because your child left their shoe and take hold of that19:33for which God has arrested you listen to this purpose he gathers us in this sanctuary amongst other believers so that we would have a healthy understanding that we join him at a work that he has provided while it's day we must work with him because when night comes we won't be able to lift a finger Jesus said go therefore into all the world taking heed that I've come to bless you and let the world20:02know you're blessed to be a blessing shout purpose you're not here to sit on your row and mind your business and stay incubated and not bother anybody next to you you need to lean over and let them know I'm here for you now I found this to be true when I went and sat in restaurant and asked the waitress how can I pray for you and she sat down next to me who are you no one had ever done that with as many Christians as live in Moody Alabama no one ever asked her20:32I'm here not for the rooty fruity fresh and whatever the pancake is I'm here for you and when she sat down and told me her story that her child was strung out on heroin and she was barely making it through the day I had so much sweet tea I had to run to the Walmart and get adult depends so life was touching she kept pouring the fountain because somebody came with purpose21:01with purpose who made it personal that God didn't come for himself but he came seeking to serve I hope this is good to you because it's like fire shut up in my bones the purpose is that we join him aggressively we join him urgently we join him intentionally we join Jesus boldly and we remember we've got good news that is not good until we tell somebody else we've got an answer21:28to that which is horror when we know that we know the holy we have a message to tell a dying world and you don't get to pick and choose who you share it with he says go therefore and let the light so shine that men will see your good works and then they'll know you his disciple by the love you show one to another can you preach again I know y'all don't like to talk to each other so just look at somebody and give them the warmth21:57that you love them through your eyes go ahead yeah give them your happy face is my point and some of y'all need to come to the altar right now because if that's your happy face you got a face for radio you mean I didn't say give them your wallet let somebody know next to you I'm so glad you're here it would not have been a complete Sunday if you didn't show up I would not have fulfilled my purpose if I didn't see you on my roll22:26and here's the good news you need to tell the world not something you manufactured not about your portfolio and your 401k not about how your golf drive looked on last Sunday when you should have been at church but you thought it was a beautiful day in the golf course it is you seeing that your purpose is to tell a dying world that there's an answer to darkness and he is the light there's an answer to pain and he is our peace22:54there's an answer to fear and he's the freedom personified there's an answer to that which is hate and he is holy love agape that is unconditional that I don't deserve but he lavishly pours out upon each and every one who heralds his name that's an answer to precious and that is the fact that he brings us promise here's the challenge23:23it's urgent so I need to exemplify it I need three volunteers right quick not everybody at once right here on the third row you three since y'all are close come on up here come on embarrass you come on up yep just like the church here's the deal face each other grab hands and look at each other there it is this is the church it has a steeple open the door see all the but the problem with the church is that everybody who needs to be in here is on the outside looking at the click23:52that knows all the songs all the verbiage all the sanctimonious language but the world who needs in on the outside looking and you're gonna do scripture Matthew 28 helps me with Matthew 16 which helps me with Romans and that is release hands on the count of three and go forward whichever direction you're facing don't deviate go forward into the world to make a disciple one two three go what's wrong with the picture there's a bumping24:22heads in the church not Bethel but other churches I go to same scenario same church about face turn around that's the call to repentance grab hands same church same steeple open the doors they're looking for all the people when they release their hands this time they're gonna press forward wherever direction they're facing and when you get there24:51tell them I found the answer on the count of three one two three go whatever direction you're facing wherever you need to be some folk will run from you you're not gonna tell the preacher okay keep going girl carry on he already knows I might not y'all maybe see to give them a hand they're like well huh problem with the picture is that they thought it was rhetorical they never told anybody I know the answer and that's how25:21we make church on Sunday after Sunday after Sunday rhetorical preacher may have or may not have touched us where we live and so we leave the same way we came in not fulfilling our purpose the world is dying and they need the living bread and if you have the answer you are a monster if you keep it to yourself the next thing you need to know so I can get out your way not only is it25:51personal not only is Matthew 16 purposeful but the word of the living God is also positional say positional I was driven by the call 40 years ago do you know what the drive is for me today the same gospel message Jesus Christ the lamb who came who is and who will forever be that same irresistible26:19irresistible call to a relevant master makes me have running in my feet it's positional because verse 17 says blessed and when you say blessed you're talking about who you are and not what you just hope to be it echoes when you look at it in Ephesians 1 3 you're blessed in heavenly places with all spiritual blessings today it's not in the sweet by and by and Jesus does not sleep on the milky way he's calling you to personal26:49to personal purposeful position and in your position of being blessed God reveals his truth church and the prophetic movement is about reaching people seeking to save the lost it's about a gracious assembly of those who understand the truth and those who are believers around blessing are those who can't keep it to themselves you got to have a case of the can't help it and be as contagious as a yawn if I just say yawn27:17folk will struggle you'll fight it but it's coming if I demonstrate some of y'all already beat me to the punch it's contagious but it's your faith does someone on the block around the corner know you're here this Sunday because of how you touched them contagiously throughout the week I got you right there brother I saw it it's contagious will someone know27:46that it mattered you came because you cannot walk away from this experience without fulfilling what you saw what you've read and what you know about the word many of you are drug babies like me you were drug the church every Sunday born on pew number four but nothing's different about you now because you're comfortable in whatever you were brought up in I cannot sit idly by and watch28:15and watch a world destroyed when I have an answer to destruction and it's deliverance this word is positional why because we have experienced the blessing of God in Christ Jesus and our foundation has been laid for eternal praise of a God for his sovereign plan a blessing is positional it is our understanding we are blessed where we are in our posture with God28:45and we are blessed by the blessor and because we're blessed by the blessor we're to pass on the blessing to everybody in our sphere of influence and let the world know he's real and a reward of those who diligently seek his face I've held the hem of his garment and I refuse to let go until I was totally transformed and because in him I live moving half my being he has the right to speak through this vessel29:14vessel and the light shines brightly men see good works and guess who gets the glory God gets all the praise he so richly deserves do you want to join him do you want to not tarry in a boat where you're clashing and bumping heads and someone sat on your pew in your row in your spot I was there at a first baptist church and I'm going to tell you which one sat preparing to preach they didn't look at the memo well because they didn't know I'd have a29:44tan like I do so when they got to their row to their section of the pew and stared me down because I was in their seat it only dawned on them when I moved politely and then took the platform that that's the guest preacher I just told to get out of my pew you know if you can't say amen say ouch the challenge in this word is that in position I asked Jesus today what is30:14what is your assignment for me his answer is the same thing I told you to do last time Matthew Mark Luke and John it is the gospel privilege to not try and deviate and come up with your own plan because once we get this right he may graduate us to some heavier stuff and today I get to respond here am I send me fresh send me encouraged30:43encouraged pastor don't be weary in well doing keep fighting the good fight of faith you stand introduce yourself crickets we should have lost our mind in here applauding the man of God the angel of the house and no not to make him hearty and arrogant and nose in the air but to encourage him that we are team God and we and we want you to succeed because when the head is succeeding then the body is healthy and this man31:11protects your soul Brad protects your soul and your children's soul you have leadership on staff that are about the business of being in position to say I'm looking for others who are here I am send me crowd I'm looking for those who will say with me I'm the redeemed of the Lord and we know our redeemer live it I look for those who with purpose and position who are personally driven who understand31:41who understand I know I need to say something but preacher what do I say I got it here's what you say I came to remind you to take initiative to tell the world not only what you saw and what you heard from God not only what you know but tell the world you have the answer and it's who he is you know what we do God said it I believe it that settles it but that's wrong theology God said it32:11it that settles it whether you and I believe it or not I'm telling people who he is and not just what I think about him and it becomes from personal to purposeful to positional it then becomes prayerful anyone before you got here you prayed till sweat like drops of blood fell from your brow anybody in your Caesarea Philippi got on your face because questions were asked who is this Jesus and people were saying John and people were saying Trump32:40Trump and people were saying oh I'm sorry people were saying whoever they thought was the people should be elevated and God says it is I I am that I am and I'm here today and I'm coming for you on every row from the balcony to the front pew and I want you to know it could be well with your soul and just as I am without one plea here I33:09here I come God I don't have it all together church I'm not the smartest I'm not the sharpest I'm not the one who has all the degrees like a thermometer from the wall but I get prayerful and in my prayer posture I'm blessed and because I'm blessed I am not an afterthought my spouse doesn't love me Jesus does my children are cross eyed and crazy but I33:38but I serve a risen savior anybody got kids act just like the other side of the family and God says the apple don't fall I'm forgiven I'm foreknown I am chosen I'm adopted I met a child upstairs who introduced herself gave me a hug and said I've just been adopted proud to be in the family and we ought to celebrate and she grinned from ear34:08from ear to ear I'm like precious one that is amazing and then I have a brother and I have a sister and they're adopted too we ought to turn backflips and sprint up and down the aisle because God has grafted us in to the family we should have never belonged to I pray because I understand I'm free and not barely free I'm free indeed I'm abundantly free I am chocolate covering for Jesus he's all on the inside and I'm34:38and I'm calling him wonderful counselor mighty God prince of peace everlasting father way maker mind regulator bridge over troubled waters he's my first my last my alpha my omega he is my all and all and I should never frown when I got greater on the inside than any problem from 2017 that matriculated into my 2018 that I could ever face I guess I'm the only one y'all35:08y'all y'all y'all don't have to talk to me but I brought my own amens to let you know I am challenged to point out who I am not I am not the great I am but I know him I am not your answer I'm a horrible God don't follow me but I know the one in whom we live and I'm persuaded he's able to keep that which we've committed as his word declares unto him against the day when you won't be able to lift35:38to lift up a finger when you won't be able to do anything about your issue when you won't be able to stand he comes that you might have life and life more abundant can I hurry up three more people right quick I need you to come on up here come on sister right there black shirt yes ma'am come on you fellas that help with the podium come on up here we can move expeditiously three people when I get personal when I get36:07purposeful when I get positional when I become prayerful I then recognize that Jesus get here in the middle one of y'all there you are Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever what does that mean he knew me before my mom and daddy danced Jesus hug me thank you Jesus hallelujah this ain't creepy at all he knew me before I blew it and I remember36:37remember the day I was born I came out the womb minding my own business I was a good kid drop dead gorgeous all that stuff happening and the nurse slapped me for no apparent reason at all y'all remember that day when you I screamed bloody murder why you hit me I didn't do nothing you know he said you will Jesus knew that I would and he held me in my37:07in my past and said I'm pushing you to your present Jesus hug me please I gotta hurry y'all keep slowing me down and in my present he knows that I still blow it that I fall short of the glory but the same God yesterday keeps me in my today and he lets me know justified just as if I never blew it at all pushes me into the next thank you37:37thank you ready to receive me wrapped up tied up tangled up in his love because he the same yesterday today and forever has my future in his hands is there anybody here give them some love y'all may be seated who knows my Jesus looks beyond our fault and he sees us at the point of our need that Jesus I pray is the38:07is the one who eternally passed is taking care of us that's the one who in our eternity present understands and cares for us still and that's the one in eternity future who says your salvation is totally secure nothing can separate you from my love nothing high nothing low nothing past nothing present are y'all ready to do something because at the close of this service personally if the word is purposefully38:36purposefully if you found it to be positionally if you'll acknowledge the great I am and prayerfully to my left you get to come and you get to convert from what you were settling for today what does it look like about face turn around repentant you're coming my left your right to say you know what I've not bent the knee in a very39:05long time I've not served what God has declared by answering the question who I think he is I've been one who's remiss and I want to be free through my repentance so that he can use me as he ordained before I was birthed from the womb that's conversion that's me saying I need the savior and I need him today and that's for those39:35for those who've never acknowledged him and made him public because what you're coming to do is not to show out it is for you to show up and be the church I wear a wedding ring I've been married 28 years to the same woman I tell her you're welcome every day and she says what else you got but I wear a wedding ring and I don't have to because I'm a grown man Kenyatta I can40:04I can wear what I want to I'm in Birmingham she ain't here do you know why I wear my wedding ring in Birmingham without my bride present because I like my teeth and y'all are telling me this Facebook live is a serious thing and she'll find it you didn't have your ring on and I have to move to Moody Alabama ain't nobody got time to transition like that conversion40:33conversion says I'm putting on the ring to let the world know I'm no longer on the market I got the relationship that makes me complete to my right you're left you're coming to consecrate you already know him you've already committed but you're coming to say I don't act clean I don't live like I should and I'm coming to trust Christ for forgiveness I want41:02I want to trust him to clean me up and wash me here's my last point I'm running out of time but what Jesus said it's not just personal it's not just purposeful it's not just positional it's not just prayerful it's powerful the gates of H-E double hockey sticks almost said hell will not prevail Hades will not overthrow no liberal conglomerate no traditionalism41:31no traditionalism no Christian scandal no religiosity will be able to stand against the mobilization of the message through the ecclesia the free people who called by God's name humbling themselves praying seeking his face turning from their wicked ways converting consecrating he will hear from heaven forgive your sin watch this and he'll heal moody he'll heal your land whatever befalls you God says42:01God says I'm able to do exceedingly abundantly above what could be asked thought or imagined you can't stop him and in order for me to grasp it and I'm done a friend of mine Dave Nasser tells a story about preaching and he preached at an experience of a collegiate millennial gathering and in the gathering he saw the people mouthwatering and they received the word like you are42:31on the edge of their seat give me more give me more and his wife elbowed him and said they get it so on the elevator they were leaving town having completed the conference week they were in one of those hotel conference experiences where the rooms attach to the ballroom you do it all on one site and as he was leaving he was like yes we did this and they got this I cannot believe everybody was attentive and they came to respond to the word and then the elevator opened and a maid got on weeping and he was a great42:59preacher but a horrible counselor y'all know some folk do Sunday school well but not real personable no bedside manner they gonna get you through the curriculum but after class you on your own not here but other churches I go to so the maid gets on she's crying he looks at his wife she's a woman you do this she looked at him you the preacher you talk guess who won that the bride43:28the bride and so all he could think of to help this crying maid was to reach in his pocket and say gum that's horrible counseling and then she elbowed him again he came to woman what's wrong with you and she said these people what's wrong with them and all of a sudden everything he thought he accomplished was a dream deferred dashed was his expectation that they received and he said43:58lady I don't really know them I'm here to preach to these heathens maybe they were overdosed on Mountain Dew sleep deprived I don't know what's wrong with them and then she continued I go to their rooms their rooms are already clean and they keep telling me about this man named Jesus he said Jesus Jesus she's crying and then they keep giving me money she pulled out a wad of some $2,400 that students44:27that students collegiates millennials broken the Ten Commandments gave her y'all to catch that at lunch what I just told you and he said woman I am their Yoda I've been training them all week long he took credit then when he saw that here's my last point and then the worship team come forward because you get to respond to Matthew chapter 16 she's crying what's wrong with them the rooms are clean they give me money I needed a touch44:57and I received it he said can I tell you what's wrong with them what is it Jesus is what's wrong with them I wonder what the of the world will say about you when they encounter you fresh from Matthew chapter 16 the doors of the church are open a time to convert from what you were settling for45:26settling for and to consecrate until you're totally cleansed from the heavy burden you've been carrying divorce the threat of losing your employment parental crises you too are in the midst of an America where you're disillusioned don't know who to trust fighting for your party position instead of being positioned in the son of the living45:56I'm done but the spirit is speaking as you stand maybe you need to come and bend the knee pastor's gonna be here Brad is gonna be here and we need to pray because I've been positioned to make personal what is powerful through prayerful purpose and Jesus says46:23nothing will overcome you no weapon formed against that free people can prosper this Sunday and that ain't just good news that's Tony the Tiger great news stand and respond bring your spouse bring your struggle bring your family bring your child bring your singleness the fact that you're always the bridesmaid never the bride and watch God46:53meet you at the point of your need never to leave you but to supply everything according to his riches through Christ Jesus← Previous in B2StartSunday, September 2, 2018Next in B2Start →Sunday, September 16, 2018More sermons on Matthew →
