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correct and we probably get along correctly. 36 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:56.079 But if you come at me sideways, you shouldn't be 37 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.840 surprised if I come back at you sideways. But you know, 38 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.879 most of the time I get victory. Most of the time. 39 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.680 I don't let the devil win. I let the righteousness 40 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:09.240 that's on the inside of me win because of him. 41 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.759 There's righteousness on the inside of me. But just understand, 42 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.560 there's also evil on the inside of me. That's right 43 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.319 on every one of us too. Don't be looking at 44 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.039 me like that. Don't be looking at me. It's on 45 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:20.479 the inside of you, just waiting to come out. Some 46 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:21.919 of y'all let the evil come out of you more 47 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.439 than you should. And we're going to talk about that 48 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:30.639 today anyway. So yeah, five one three, four zero four 49 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:34.919 seven seven nine three is the number to reach us. 50 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.960 If you got questions, comment, send us a text. If 51 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.479 you called during the middle of our recording session, I'm 52 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:45.560 not going to answer. If you send us a text message, 53 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:49.719 I might. I'll definitely respond to you if you send 54 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:52.319 us a comment on our videos, on our shorts videos. 55 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:54.639 Most of the people send comments on the shorts, the 56 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:56.520 sixty second shorts that we put out a couple of 57 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:58.319 times a week, a couple of times a day. Actually, 58 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.520 I will respond to those comments, especially if you want 59 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.159 to debate me about something. I love debate. I love 60 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.879 it as long as it's scriptures, right, as long as 61 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:15.599 it's it's scriptures. If you want to convince me that 62 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:19.080 I'm right or wrong about something, just understand red words win. 63 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.199 So if you want to argue something in the Bible 64 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:25.759 or whatever you think you want to argue, just understand. 65 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.520 I bow the need to the scriptures. I'm bound the 66 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:32.120 need to nobody's opinions because opinions are just like arm pits. 67 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.560 We all got a couple of them and they can stink. 68 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:42.960 That's right, So the scripture wins. So if you want 69 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.360 to debate me about something or just have a question 70 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.479 about something, feel free to do that. Give us a 71 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:51.639 call once again. Five one three, four, zero, four seven 72 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:59.639 seven nine three. Have I covered all the bases good? 73 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.599 I have covered all the basis. I'm glad because I 74 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:06.240 want to jump right in today hunting one degrees in California. 75 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:10.680 Lord have mercy, God bless y'all over there in Cali. 76 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.960 We got some people in the Cyber Sanctuary in Cali 77 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:15.879 out there when hunting and one degrees is eighty four 78 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:21.560 degrees here in Cincinnati, and it's time to get it 79 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:26.759 cooking regardless of the weather. Hey, listen, today is the 80 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.839 day where I take a victory lap, because in the 81 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:34.240 face of Satan trying to get victory in my life, 82 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:41.120 I one and you need to know about it because 83 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:43.959 the thing that I did you can do it too. 84 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:47.360 I'm telling you today, y'all, listen. When I talk about 85 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:50.160 powerful living and when I talk about this being an 86 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:53.879 outreach ministry. Just understand, y'all, I practice what I preach, 87 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:56.920 and I'm going to have a victory lap today and 88 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:00.199 I'm going to boast in the Lord and what he 89 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.920 did through me. And therefore I am going to boast 90 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:08.480 about me. You know why, because God said to do it. 91 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:15.120 That's right, he said, we overcome satan by what the 92 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.839 blood of the Lamb, which has washed away all of 93 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.399 our sins. Right, so the blood of the Lamb is 94 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:22.959 covering us. We are washed in it. We are as 95 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:27.040 he is, We are is he is ours. He is 96 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.519 on the inside of us. Because of the blood of Lamb. 97 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:31.759 All power in heaven is getting on him, and he's 98 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.160 on the inside of us. So guess what all power 99 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:37.759 in heaven and earth is given it unto us. That's right. 100 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:40.000 We overcome satan by the blood of the Lamb. And 101 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:42.040 what else do we overcome satan by? Folks in this 102 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:46.560 cyber sanctuary already know the word of our testimony. The 103 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:51.199 word of our testimony overcomes satan. And I'm going to 104 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:53.839 testify today, y'all. And I don't care how long we 105 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:55.879 take it, how short it is. I got to take 106 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.360 this victory lap

today. So much, so much so that 107 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:03.560 I got in my victory jersey on today. That's right, Patriots, 108 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.759 they are synonymous. Well, you know, maybe not so synonymous 109 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:11.120 with winning. Nowadays things are a little different since the 110 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:21.439 Tom Brady era has ended. But yeah, the Tom Brady era, 111 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:27.120 Patriots are synonymous with victory, with winning, right, And when 112 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.439 you win, you got a testimony without a test. There's 113 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.560 no testimony, y'all. Without a test that's how you win. 114 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:37.000 Many of us want wins, but we don't want a 115 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:40.560 test too. Many of us say we want powerful living, 116 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:47.639 but we don't want powerful tests. And that's not God's 117 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:51.959 best for your life. God's best for your life is 118 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.120 when you get on the field of your life and 119 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:59.480 you show your strength, you show your skill. All this 120 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:02.000 time and street and man, I read the Bible from 121 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:05.120 cover to cover every year, not including my individual studies, 122 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.240 preparing for a message or preparing for what somebody else 123 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:09.519 in needs. Ear man, listen, hind the word. You're gonna 124 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:11.000 get all that knowledge and then get out there and 125 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.639 don't use it. That's foolishness. You overcome Satan by the 126 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:17.800 blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. 127 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:23.879 Capitol w the word. God's word should be a part 128 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:27.040 of your testimony, a part of your life. As believers 129 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.240 in Jesus Christ, we should be living the word. And 130 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:35.000 when you live the word, you will have victory and 131 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:38.439 you will boast and brag about it. Folks couldn't stand 132 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:40.480 in Patriot back in the day. Couldn't stand most of 133 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:42.759 a lot of them. Can't stand Tom Brady nowadays, right 134 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:48.480 because why he is synonymous with what winning. And this 135 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:50.839 is my grump jersey man. But guess what on the 136 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:53.639 back of this jersey. I got my jersey signed and 137 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:58.160 autographed by none other than the three time world champion, 138 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:05.279 super Bowl champion David Patton. God rest his soul. M H. Winning. 139 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.800 That's who we should be in Jesus Christ. We should 140 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:13.319 be winning. But I'm telling you, Saints of God, You're 141 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:17.079 not gonna be doing anything near winning unless you get 142 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:23.199 on the field of your life. You got to show up. 143 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.720 And when God says, hey, listen, I've overcome Satan by 144 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.399 the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony, 145 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:33.039 those are opportunities where you get out there and you 146 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:36.759 do something when Satan comes against you. And many times 147 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:44.600 Satan's gonna come against you with people, that's right. And 148 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:47.360 it's too many times where Satan comes against you with 149 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.840 people and they on a low level doing some dumb stuff, 150 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:53.799 saying some dumb stuff, and we take the low road 151 00:08:53.879 --> 00:09:00.360 with them. Those things ought not to be so. And 152 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.200 so what I'm gonna do today is I'm a boasting 153 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:06.120 brag today about myself as a minister of the Gospel, 154 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:08.919 and talk to you today about how I took the 155 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.799 high road and did not let Satan win. It was 156 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:16.840 an utter defeat for him. And I'm gonna do it 157 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:18.919 for the sake of all the preachers, all the preachers, 158 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:21.200 because you know how we do when it comes to preachers. Man, 159 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.559 When we find preachers taking the low road, when we 160 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:29.440 find preachers doing stuff they ain't supposed to do, man, 161 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:32.679 we want to publicize that that stuff will go viral. 162 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:36.480 I can promise you if this was a report today 163 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.799 about Henry Flowers from Powerful Living Ministries getting caught up 164 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.759 in the scandal messing with somebody's kid, or messing with 165 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.720 somebody else's wife or something, or getting caught up in 166 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:49.720 schemes taking people money, I can promise you if I 167 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:52.840 said something stupid from the pulpit about some money. Yeah, 168 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.200 I got this thousand dollars lion over here, and there's 169 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:58.200 one hundred dollar lion over here. If you can't give, 170 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:00.840 just come up and touch the basket. All this kind 171 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.279 of foolishness. Usher, Shut the door. Shut the door. We 172 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:05.600 all leaving at the same time. Shut the door. Oh 173 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:11.240 that foolishness will go viral. Oh yes it will. That 174 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:14.399 stuff got legs. Baby, We want to hear about

that. 175 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:18.759 But when a preacher does something right, we gonna see 176 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:24.559 how many how many likes this video? Get preacher, get 177 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.399 on the poop. It's say, I want all y'all tax 178 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.399 returns next week. Y'all gonna stop playing in my face 179 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:32.000 When it comes to this tithe and offering, every member 180 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.559 bring their tax return and show it to me. That 181 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:40.720 goes viral. Mm hmm. And I don't care about going 182 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:42.679 viral or not. What I do care about is glorifying 183 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:49.039 God in my body and on this plane. And most 184 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:50.840 of you should care about that too, but we don't 185 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:53.360 because we're human beings and we like to head dirt. 186 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:56.679 We don't want to hear some gossip. We want we 187 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:59.960 want more and more confirmation about how evil these times are. 188 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:07.639 Because that's what sells. If it bleeds, it leads you 189 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.080 turning the news. All you getting is bad news. You 190 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:13.000 might get a little puppy story, something here there, somebody 191 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.840 got rescued, some kind of good deed done, maybe if 192 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:22.000 they feel like it. But overall, you know what you're 193 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:26.559 gonna get bad news. So I'm gonna give you some 194 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:30.399 good news today as I take this victory lap in 195 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:34.240 Jesus' name. It's right. So I got a text message 196 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:38.080 the other day from somebody that I've been mentoring for 197 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:41.799 a little while, discipling, mentoring, whatever you want to call it. Now, listen, 198 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:47.879 this is the person that I have given a lot too. 199 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.000 This is a person that I've been discipling for months 200 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.799 taking listen, taking money out of my pocket from my family, 201 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:59.159 helping him and his family. Right, I'm talking about picking 202 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:02.600 him up from war and taking him home from work 203 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:05.000 early in the morning, get off at full thirty. I'm 204 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.840 there to pick him up, give you full thirty in 205 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.240 the afternoon, taking him to work, and then when I 206 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:12.440 can't do that, if I can't make any one of 207 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.279 those times, I'm sending him a ride to make sure 208 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.600 he do what he gotta do. Because This is powerful 209 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:20.879 living ministries, y'all. This is an outreach ministry. We practice 210 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:23.399 what we preach. Ain't there, right, folks in this cyber sanctuary. 211 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:26.120 This ain't nothing that we just sitting here on a 212 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:29.480 high horse talking loud about that's something that sounds good. No, 213 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:33.799 we practice what we preach. And so when I say 214 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:36.000 to you that the harvest is plenty is, but the 215 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:39.039 laborers are few, what we're doing here is trying to 216 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:46.519 help you become a laborer so you can get God's best. 217 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:49.679 Doing work in the harvest is going to benefit you 218 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:54.840 as a believer. And yes, it doesn't benefit you until 219 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.399 you go out and help somebody who can't pay you back. 220 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:04.799 That's the gospel. Jesus says, I ain't come for the 221 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:10.039 those who are well. I came for those who are sick, 222 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:15.159 and those who are destitute, the down trodden, the broken hearted, 223 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:20.919 the widows, the outcasts. Those are the ones that He's 224 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.679 come for. And we read in the scriptures last week 225 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.159 in the Book of Matthew. We've been going through the 226 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:29.039 Book of Matthew, and here's this lady who's looking for 227 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:31.919 healing for her son. And Jesus looked at and said man, 228 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:37.200 I I've come to the people of Israel. They are 229 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.000 the chosen people of God. Why should I spend any 230 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:42.360 time listening to you talking about your daughter needs to 231 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:48.480 be healed. And you'll see her response and we'll continue 232 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.919 that next week. But for this week, we're gonna continue 233 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:54.919 this victory lap that I'm taking today. Yeah, this brother 234 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.360 that I have given my life to send me a 235 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:02.000 text message, and I'm gonna be honest when I read 236 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:06.759 the text message, because something happened and he thought it 237 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.159 was one thing. He thought I did something that he 238 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:15.039 didn't like, and it really was just a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. 239 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:17.159 It was something that happened that I should have been 240 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:26.399 given grace for, and I didn't receive the grace. Instead, 241 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.279 I got a text message that let's just say, I 242 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:35.919 didn't like it. I didn't like it. And it's not 243 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.120 even on the

strength of I didn't like it because 244 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:42.399 I've been helping this guy for so long and really 245 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:49.039 really helping him, and I should be afforded more respect 246 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.200 than what was in that text message. It wasn't even 247 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.799 on the strength of that, which that's enough strength by itself, 248 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:01.440 But it wasn't on the strength of that it was 249 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.440 on the strength of man to man, one man to another. 250 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:06.360 There's a certain way you don't talk to a man 251 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:15.240 and not expect to get some smoke. And so for me, 252 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:20.440 it's like, Okay, what do I do with this text message? 253 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:23.759 So because I don't do a whole lot of text 254 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:25.879 message and I like to talk to people because I 255 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:28.720 ain't I see, I don't. I don't play too many 256 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:30.639 games because there's too many people out here who are 257 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:35.759 thumb thugs. You know what I'm talking about. These thumb thugs, 258 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:40.360 these keyboard commandos, these internet warriors. Talk a whole lot 259 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.399 of noise online, talk a whole lot of noise through 260 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.679 through these devices, but you get them face to face, 261 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:49.960 and they tone ain't the same. They don't really have 262 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:53.759 that same energy you see for me, I want to. 263 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:55.639 I want to. I want you to look me in 264 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.320 my eye. So when you talk noise to me, you 265 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.720 can see a human being in you, and you can 266 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:04.159 see my reaction to what you got to say, and 267 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:06.360 you can see that what you've got to say either 268 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:10.480 hurts me or helps me. You can see it. See 269 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.320 look at me in my face. If you gonna talk 270 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.039 noise and this ain't on no fighting stuff. Man, I'm 271 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.519 fifty two years old. It ain't nobody breaking down into 272 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:19.679 no violence when in the world. We got to come 273 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.159 down to that full anyway, and by the way, I 274 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:25.639 can handle myself. So if it does come down to that, 275 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:28.559 I'm not below that. I ain't above it or below it. 276 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.080 I will handle myself when I need to. But most 277 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.000 of the time, you don't need to use your words, man, 278 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.639 and talk to me with respect. You want love, you 279 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:43.240 give love. That's the gospel, and especially from people who 280 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:48.159 claim to be believers, we got to do better. It's 281 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:54.960 powerful living, y'all, not powerful confessing. It's powerful living. It's 282 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.559 how you live. Nobody want to care what faith you 283 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:00.519 claim that you that is yours. It's about how you 284 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:06.720 live your life. So I read this text message and 285 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:11.920 I called him because, you know, because of what I 286 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.119 said to him. I said, Hey, I don't know that 287 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:22.200 I like the tone of your text message. What's going on, y'all? Listen, 288 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.880 let me just make a long story short. Over the 289 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.680 course of about thirteen minutes, he proceeded to go to 290 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:35.720 hell off on me thirteen minutes. And you know how 291 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:38.640 I know it was thirteen minutes thirteen minutes. Now on 292 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:43.519 a phone call, I've been delivering this message for a 293 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:48.839 little bit less than thirteen minutes. Thirteen minutes. He proceeded 294 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:54.160 to go to hell off on me and I just 295 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:57.359 sat there and listened. And after thirteen minute mark, I 296 00:17:57.400 --> 00:18:02.599 looked at my phone and I said are you And 297 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:08.279 he said, are you listening? I said, well, yeah, I'm 298 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:14.119 listening because you've been going off for thirteen minutes. I'm 299 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:22.720 just trying to find out if you've done. Now. Now 300 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:31.680 hear me, y'all, hear me. When we're talking about who 301 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:36.920 you are in Christ and we're talking about powerful living, 302 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.640 I'm just telling you, people who claim to be powerful 303 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:46.880 living people are going to have powerful tests. If you're 304 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:50.880 not here for the test, don't come to the schoolhouse, bruh. 305 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:58.799 In the Kingdom of God, you take tests because everybody 306 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:02.039 want a testimony. But guess what's right in front of 307 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:11.680 the testimony a test Well, without a test, there's no testimony. 308 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:14.119 You want to be able to boast and brag about 309 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:16.920 what the Lord has done. Trust me, he gonna give 310 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.240 you stuff to be able to boast and brag about. 311 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:24.440 Do we overcome Satan by the blood of the lamb 312 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:27.400 and the word of our testimony. Okay, well, he's gonna 313 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:31.160 give you an

opportunity to overcome Satan. And here was 314 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:39.519 mine and I said a few things. On my behalf. 315 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:40.960 I said, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on 316 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:43.720 for a second. Let me make sure I understand. This 317 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:46.400 is what you're upset about. This happened. And here what 318 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:50.039 here's what kills me, y'all, here's what kills me. What 319 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:52.079 kills me is And people do this a lot of 320 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:54.799 you young folks, y'all young probably let me, let me, 321 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:57.119 let me just group it for you. Probably you thirty 322 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:00.759 and unders y'all have a habit of doing this. Because 323 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:03.920 I've heard this multiple time. You'll be talking to somebody 324 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:08.599 and you'll say, not trying to be disrespectful, but blah 325 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:13.079 blah blah, you're not trying to be rude, but blah 326 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:16.680 blah blah. But you actually are being rude. While you 327 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:19.480 saying not trying to be rude, you actually are being 328 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.480 disrespectful or not trying to be disrespectful, but blah blah 329 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:27.039 blah blah. Dude, you are being disrespectful though. See that's 330 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:30.440 the foolishness. That kind of stuff gets up under my skin, 331 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:33.440 because for me, it's like, dude, say what's your chest? 332 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:37.240 If you being rude, then stand on it ten toes down. 333 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:40.480 If you don't send smoke my way, send it my way, 334 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:44.559 but just be mad enough to be ready to receive. 335 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:44.920 It back. 336 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:52.440 If I choose to give it back. But after he 337 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:55.920 finished going off some more, I just said, you know what, 338 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:01.160 I'll see you at four point thirty when I come 339 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:07.880 and serve you again. You see what I did did, 340 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:10.200 don't you? Yeah, I'll see you at four point thirty 341 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:12.960 when I come and serve you again. And I hung 342 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:19.200 up the phone. Check this out, y'all. Listen, here's a real, 343 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:27.039 real important point when it comes to taking a victory 344 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:30.799 lap when God has given you victory in a situation. Y'all, 345 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:36.480 you really got to hear this. It's easy to love 346 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:44.319 loving people when God says the harvest is plenty is 347 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:47.000 but the laborers are few. I'm just telling you, y'all, 348 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:51.559 there's a reason the laborers are

few, because discipleship is 349 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:59.480 not easy. People who are broken and down trodden, people 350 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.079 who are destitute, with those people who are poor and needy. 351 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:05.920 Talking about all these people that Jesus spent time around. 352 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:08.960 Those people ain't happy people all the time. Those people 353 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:13.799 ain't loving people all the time. People are hurting. And 354 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:16.640 if you, who's supposed to have Christ on the inside 355 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:20.279 of you can't endure loving people, I'm suggesting to you 356 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:27.119 that there's something missing in your life, and possibly it's 357 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:31.160 what you're missing is the ability to give the grace 358 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:40.359 that you yourself has received. Come on, believers, where you at. Oh, 359 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:42.880 it's easy to love the lovely, but God wants us 360 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:47.039 to learn how to love the unlovely. Everybody ain't gonna 361 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:49.519 be nice and sweet all the time, especially when they're 362 00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:51.880 going through what they're going through. And then folks ain't 363 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:54.799 here to stroke your ego all the time. They hurting. Y'all, 364 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:01.000 now listen, having an ego is not a bad thing. 365 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:04.599 We all have personal pride. That's understandable. None of us 366 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:07.480 wants to be disrespected and talk down to. Trust me, 367 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:10.319 there's a balance here, and I'm gonna teach that and 368 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:14.720 always walk in that balance. Yes, and powerful living we teach. Hey, 369 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:18.799 you get to teach people how to treat you. Don't 370 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:21.039 nobody get to talk to me any old kind of way. 371 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:23.000 And I just get to sit back and take it 372 00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:28.319 what the bob says, somebody slap you on one cheek, 373 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:31.559 You're turn and offer him the other. Well, just understand, 374 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:35.759 I only got two cheeks, and he said turn and 375 00:23:35.799 --> 00:23:37.880 offer you the other one. He didn't say, let you 376 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.200 hit me on the other one because I might offer 377 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:43.680 you the other one and you might miss the other cheek. 378 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:46.519 Because I'm turning around with a spinning backhand fist across 379 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:49.039 your cheek, and you're gonna wake up five minutes later 380 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:51.640 and I'm I'm gonna lift you up off the ground 381 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:57.880 and say, now, what was we saying? Don't play? Don't 382 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:00.839 play with me, y'all crucified Jesus, I ain't here to 383 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.559 lay down on no cross for you. And if you're 384 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:05.839 gonna bring some smoke, bring it. I'm ready. I got 385 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:11.240 some smoke too, but I'm gonna be judicious and try 386 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.960 to be christ Like on who I delivered that smoke to. You, See, 387 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:18.759 there's a time to deliver smoke. You don't think Jesus 388 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:22.240 delivered smoke One man with a threefold court wrapped up 389 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:28.680 and ran hundreds of people out of the temple. You 390 00:24:28.759 --> 00:24:32.200 think that wasn't no smoke. I can see fire coming 391 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:34.720 out of his nostrils. Bro I can man, I can 392 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:38.000 see this man turning over tables. One man, you know, 393 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:40.279 people was in that temple to make money. They were 394 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:42.759 robbing people. That's why he turned over. It wasn't because 395 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:44.640 you ain't supposed to make no money or sell nothing 396 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:46.680 in the church. No, he said, y'all was robbing people 397 00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:50.279 using false weights and measures. You're supposed to be giving 398 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.759 me three pounds of this back, but you gotta weight. 399 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:55.119 That says three pounds, but it really only weigh one 400 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:59.279 and a half pounds. You robbing people. That's why he 401 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:01.160 went in there and turned the tables over. And I 402 00:25:01.160 --> 00:25:03.880 can promise you he wasn't a nice in Jesus y 403 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:07.559 about it. This is a man who was full of 404 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:13.960 wrath and punishment. There's a time for that. And yes, 405 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:16.000 you do get to teach people how to treat you. 406 00:25:16.279 --> 00:25:18.480 I spoke to somebody and say, hey, listen, yes, I 407 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:21.720 hear what you're saying, and all that behavior is definitely unreasonable. 408 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:24.759 Now you got that question to ask yourself. Am I 409 00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:28.440 okay with distancing myself from this person as long as 410 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:32.119 I'm okay if they never come back, And if the 411 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:34.000 answer to that is yes, then you go ahead and 412 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:39.359 cut them off. See, you don't get to just walk 413 00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:42.039 all over me. That is not what life in Christ 414 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:45.079 is about. But when Christ says, let him walk over you. 415 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:57.400 Now we're gonna see whom you really serve. Now we're 416 00:25:57.400 --> 00:25:59.720 gonna see whether you serve your ego or whether you 417 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:13.039 serve

Christ. Yeah. I have cut people off in Jesus' name, 418 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:16.759 and most of at least the last one that I 419 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:18.559 know I cut off in Jesus name don't even call 420 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:20.000 me no more. And got to the point where he 421 00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:23.839 called me from a different number after I blocked his number. 422 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:28.319 And that incident right there should tell you how weird 423 00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:32.319 he was on some stalker stuff. And you gotta go. 424 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:36.119 And this is the biggest reason here why Because this 425 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:38.839 is a person who comes in the name of Jesus, 426 00:26:39.319 --> 00:26:44.759 highly educated, knows the word, wants to question me about this, 427 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.039 says he wants to be this, wants to do that 428 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:49.960 and find out. Yeah, you being used by the devil 429 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:56.000 more than you're being used by God. Goodbye, sir. See, 430 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:57.599 if you come to me in the name of Jesus 431 00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:59.799 Christ and you're supposed to know better, and I find 432 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:02.720 you doing some crooked foolishness. You got a rebuke coming 433 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:06.640 from me. I ain't got no grace for you unless 434 00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:12.640 God says, give you grace. So there's a balance to that. Yeah, 435 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:16.319 folks don't get to treat you like anything until God says, 436 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:19.599 let him treat you like anything. And that's why it's 437 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:23.160 important to hear from God. That's why those moments in 438 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:25.519 the morning of prayer before you get up and take 439 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:27.640 off about your day, that's why it's so important. So 440 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:31.119 you can learn when God is speaking to you, and 441 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:33.559 when somebody's going to hell off on you on the phone, 442 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:37.079 God might speak to you and say be quiet and listen. 443 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:42.599 And that's what I did. And I'm pull up to 444 00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:45.359 his house at full thirty and he got in the 445 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:47.319 car and try to act like he still had a 446 00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:50.119 little win in his jaw. He ain't say nothing, but 447 00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:51.720 you can tell a look on his face. He's a 448 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:54.799 little uneasy getting in my car. And you should be 449 00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:58.519 uneasy getting in the car of somebody who you just 450 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:01.160 done went to hell off on for more than thirteen 451 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:03.640 minutes and now you're getting in their car so they 452 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:10.960 can help you. Yeah, you should be uneasy. But at 453 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:18.160 that moment, because I listened to God, y'all, and because 454 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:23.480 I didn't let my ego be more important than God 455 00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:28.920 working through me to accomplish his will. Because of that, 456 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:36.720 when he got in my car, I said, hey, brother, listen, man, 457 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:42.279 you not mad at me. You mad at your situation. 458 00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:47.640 Because the level of smoke that you sent my way 459 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:53.880 didn't even measure up to the offense that you said 460 00:28:55.720 --> 00:29:03.039 I committed. It wasn't even propose. And because I know 461 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:10.680 your situation, bro, and because I've been there, I've been destitute. 462 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:14.279 I've been there, poor, broken, hungry, y'all. Y'all don't understand 463 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:17.759 I've been there. This ain't no success story you're looking at. 464 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.079 I ain't like your president now, who started off with 465 00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:24.440 a two hundred and fifty million dollar trust fund. I 466 00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:26.000 don't know about you, but I think there ain't a 467 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:29.400 whole long way of success from there when you start 468 00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:31.720 off with a two hundred and fifty million dollars. I 469 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:35.119 believe even though I could work that one out. Now, 470 00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:38.000 I come from the mud, y'all. I'm come from having 471 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.480 five families. The baby five kids in the family, the 472 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:43.960 baby need diapers. I don't have a job, I don't 473 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:46.680 have a car, I got a bucket and squeegee walking 474 00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:48.599 up and down the street. Sir ah ma'am, may I 475 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:55.920 please wash your windows, get off my property. I've been there, y'all, 476 00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:59.160 needing to bring home some diapers, needing to bring home 477 00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:02.039 some food, and walking out trying to hope, hope and 478 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:05.559 find maybe wash somebody's windows, maybe wash somebody's car, and 479 00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:11.559 man start raining. Ain't no food at the house. I'm 480 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:13.319 hoping to go out and make some money, and it 481 00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:18.119 start raining. I've been there. I've been in the mud 482 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:20.839 is where I got this from. So ain't nobody gonna 483 00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:24.559 sit here and tell me that I don't understand what 484 00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:27.519 they're going through. And the reason I had grace upon 485 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:29.960 this young man because not only do I know what 486 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:35.920 he's going through, I've been there before. And that's the 487

00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:41.440 beautiful thing about the Savior that we serve. He has 488 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:51.400 been there, e Manuel God with us, with everything that 489 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:55.319 we have been tempted, he has been tempted. Likewise, yet 490 00:30:55.359 --> 00:31:01.000 he did it without sin. He been there. He gets us, 491 00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:13.440 Jesus Us, and the same thing that he required himself 492 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:16.519 to do, sometimes he's gonna require you to do it. 493 00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:21.400 Suck it up and give them the grace that you 494 00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:24.720 would want to be given if you were in that situation. 495 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:28.480 The tables were turned. You mad because you ain't got 496 00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:30.960 no food in the house, and you got babies crying, 497 00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:34.039 your electricity about to get cut off. You pass due 498 00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:36.359 on this bill, pass due on that bill. You don't 499 00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:38.640 have this. You don't have that. You see anybody else 500 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:42.400 prospering to you out here struggling. That'll make folks mad, y'all. 501 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:49.279 And the day should stop. The day should stop when 502 00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:54.759 your desire to be respected should come before God's command 503 00:31:55.400 --> 00:32:02.400 for your life, or you don't. You don't disrespect me, man, 504 00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:04.759 you got to go. I ain't never calling him back again, 505 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.920 and he ain't never going Your congratulations to your ego 506 00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:15.720 and your pride being your God. And many of us say, 507 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:19.599 we want to reward o want Oh, we want heaven, man. 508 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.920 We want the blessings of God on our life. We 509 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:26.240 want the trophies, we want the gold medal. We want 510 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:28.480 God to do this for us, do this miracle. But 511 00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:32.079 the first time somebody come at us sideways, we get 512 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:38.720 just as worldly as the day is long. Where's the transformation? 513 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:43.000 And it's not about you being perfect, it is about 514 00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:47.440 you perfectly trying to do the right thing, and yeah 515 00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:49.039 you miss it. Yeah you might go to hell off 516 00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:51.440 on somebody that God told you not to. Yeah, you 517 00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:54.000 might not give grace when God told you to give grace. 518 00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:58.319 But that's your way of being. You do the airtime. 519 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:02.759 You might want to question your salvation like I could 520 00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:07.440 question mine if I was doing that. But all I'm 521 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:10.920 telling you is this is a time where God won 522 00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:15.759 in my life because I allowed him to. I set 523 00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:19.640 aside my ego. I set aside my desire to clap back. 524 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.039 I set aside my desire to be respected. I set 525 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:26.519 aside my desire to be spoken too properly and to 526 00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:29.920 have somebody be thankful towards me and show gratitude for 527 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.000 what I'd undone to you. You know what I'd undone 528 00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:36.960 for you, And you'll never see me do that. I 529 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.400 ain't never thrown up in somebody's face what I've done 530 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:44.839 for you. But what I do get to do is 531 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:50.039 listen to God. And if God tells me to leave 532 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:54.920 you alone, if God gives tells me to give you 533 00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:59.400 the blessing of goodbye, that's what's gonna happen. Goodbye, y'all 534 00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:02.160 seeing it next time, wouldn't want to be here. I 535 00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:06.599 have done that for some people. But when God tells 536 00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:10.119 you to sit back, shut up, and take it, and 537 00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:14.400 when he finished giving it to you, you give him grace. Son, 538 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:18.679 You give him grace because if that was you, and 539 00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.320 you look back in the day or when I rescued 540 00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:23.360 you and when I pulled you out the mund when 541 00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:26.039 you was down and dirty doing your sin, I gave 542 00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:28.679 you grace. Not the same thing I gave to you, 543 00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:35.119 You give it back to him. And that's what I did. 544 00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:39.960 I humbled myself and while I took him to work, 545 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:42.719 I spoke words of kindness to him. And I'm telling 546 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:48.320 you I didn't want to. I wanted to give him 547 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:51.079 all the smoke he gave me. I wanted to give 548 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:53.159 it to him. But I'm just telling you today that 549 00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:55.880 God is teaching me that giving to others what they 550 00:34:55.920 --> 00:35:04.119 have given to you is not Christ. It's not Christ, y'all, 551 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:08.800 and it's not powerful living. I want to be somebody 552 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:18.280 that practices what I preach, and it's not easy. And 553 00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:22.079 I'm telling you nothing valuable comes from doing the easy thing. 554 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.360 You got things you want God to do in your life, Miracles, man, 555 00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:31.360 tough stuff, you realize that hole, you dug man. That's 556 00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:35.119 gonna take a bulldozer of epic proportion and strength to 557 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:37.719 pull you

out of that. But somebody say some side 558 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:40.199 words to you one time, and you can't even hold 559 00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:45.840 your peace. You got to blow them up. It's not Christ, 560 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:54.440 it says, Christ, who was in heaven, left all of 561 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.519 that behind. He humbled himself and took upon him the 562 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.960 form of a servant and became in the likeness of 563 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:06.960 sinful men. He left all of his glory behind. It 564 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:12.000 says he despised the shame and went to the cross. 565 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:19.679 He despised the shame his own creation, beating him, torturing him, 566 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:25.719 hanging him on the cross. Naked, Yeah, naked and a loincloth. 567 00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:28.519 We put that on there. That's a human edded. They 568 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:34.599 are crucified, naked in front of everybody to see. And 569 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:36.960 most of them stayed on the cross for six days 570 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:46.199 or more, suffering people walking by looking at them. It's 571 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:50.639 amazing how your Lord and Savior can be humble and 572 00:36:50.760 --> 00:37:01.039 be willing to be spoken down to, but you aren't. 573 00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:07.119 But I'm gonna just tell you, y'all, I want to 574 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:12.800 please God with my life. I want to please God 575 00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.639 I don't want to be somebody who dispuws the scriptures 576 00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:18.239 and a whole bunch of knowledge. I want to walk 577 00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:24.000 this way run DMC. I want to walk in the 578 00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:27.199 ways of Christ. I want Christ to show up in 579 00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:31.440 my life, and I want him to be a blessing 580 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:35.920 through me to others, just like I want Him to 581 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:42.719 be a blessing to me. Too many times, too many 582 00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:47.440 of us don't want to do both. We want one 583 00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:51.199 of the other. But I'm telling you, y'all, victory comes 584 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:54.679 from when you obey God, and many times God will 585 00:37:54.719 --> 00:38:00.840 cause you to love the unlovely Discipleships not easy, but 586 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:05.199 it is what we have been called to do, and 587 00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:11.239 it's hard. People talk noise to you, ungrateful, unthankful, come 588 00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:16.719 across as entitled, privileged, gonna tell you what you're supposed 589 00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:19.559 to be doing for them, and who you are, and 590 00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:22.119 what you should have done and what you didn't do 591 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:26.079 that wasn't good enough, and keep that same energy. Y'all. Listen, 592 00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:30.960 you got to understand that these

people are broken and downtrodden. 593 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:37.480 They got nothing, and when they got nothing, the last 594 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:41.440 thing they need is you stomping on their head because 595 00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:47.000 they deserve it. Yeah, he deserved me to read him 596 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:50.679 the Riot Act. But I ain't about to give him 597 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:54.960 what he deserves. While I'm sitting here, fat and happy 598 00:38:55.280 --> 00:39:03.800 because God didn't give me what I deserved. I listen 599 00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:11.480 to God and I delivered words of forgiveness and understanding kindness. 600 00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:17.719 And you could see him crumbling beneath the grace. You 601 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:20.719 could see the grace that I was delivering showing up 602 00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:25.079 in his life. Y'all. It changed his life in that moment. 603 00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:27.800 Because I was willing to be vulnerable. I was willing 604 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:30.199 to put my ego down. I was willing to put 605 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:33.480 God first and put me last, and allow God to 606 00:39:33.559 --> 00:39:35.679 take this man and mold and shape his heart and 607 00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:39.760 circumcise his heart and let him understand what unconditional love 608 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:42.679 looks like. And yes, I don't get unconditional love right 609 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.880 every time, but brother, I got it right that time. 610 00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.239 And I'm here to take a victory lap for it 611 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:56.000 and pat myself on the back and say, devil, you 612 00:39:56.159 --> 00:40:05.360 have been defeated. You lost, and I one. You lost, devil, 613 00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:09.199 and I won. Oh, the devil would be sitting back 614 00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:15.360 rolling across the floor, loving himself, pleasuring himself. If I 615 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.119 cut this young man off, and this young man is 616 00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:21.000 this close to the deliverance that he needs where he 617 00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.719 don't need me no more, right, not like he needs 618 00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:26.760 me now, he's this close to getting his stuff together, 619 00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:30.280 and a couple of crosswords come to me, and I'm 620 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:32.280 all up in the flesh and I'm gonna cut him 621 00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:35.079 off and walk away and leave him stranded when the 622 00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:39.000 world is beating him down, crushing him. His mother died, 623 00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:48.119 he never had a father, he don't have nobody, and 624 00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:50.639 now the person that God sent to him is walking 625 00:40:50.679 --> 00:41:01.000 away because my ego is bruised. You. I did not 626 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:05.119 want to do it in the moment. I did not 627 00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:08.039 want to say the words that I was saying. I 628 00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:11.119 did not want to be kind. I didn't want to 629 00:41:11.159 --> 00:41:14.199 be loving and no understanding. I wanted to blow his 630 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:18.400 behind up. How dare you? Who do you think you are? 631 00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:22.800 Don't you remember what I've done for you? You gonna 632 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:27.639 miss me when I'm gone, because the only reason you 633 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.880 breathing air right now is because my strong arm is 634 00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:33.719 holding you up. And because of what you just said, 635 00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:37.199 I'm about to let you go, and you gonna drown, 636 00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:50.320 and the devil is going to rejoice. You glad about 637 00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:59.559 that you glad about that. Instead of me taking a 638 00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:02.400 victory la today, the devil would be taking a victory 639 00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:11.280 lap today. Nah, because God said, give him grace, turn 640 00:42:11.400 --> 00:42:15.440 the table. But for the grace of God, that would 641 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:20.400 be me, that will be you. And in this situation, 642 00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:24.000 I'm saying, y'all, hear me, now, hear the balance. In 643 00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:30.320 this situation, God said, give them what they don't deserve. 644 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:36.840 That's what grace is. Mercy is not giving you what 645 00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:40.960 you deserve. Grace has given you something that you don't deserve. 646 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:46.360 The people of God should be overflowing with mercy and 647 00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:50.239 grace when God tells you to. 648 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:54.480 There will be a time. Will he tell you to 649 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:58.400 cut some people off? Oh absolutely, there will be a 650 00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:01.920 time to turn some tables over. But you got to 651 00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:08.000 You got to hear from God, my friend. And you 652 00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:10.880 learn how to hear from God in those moments before 653 00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:13.719 you get out of bed. You sitting there listening to 654 00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:16.800 the Lord's voice. You got some music on that gets 655 00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:19.840 you in his presence. You're reading the word of God. 656 00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:22.280 You listening to a podcast I don't know from a 657 00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:25.039 ministry you call powerful Living ministries. You might turn on 658 00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:28.079 the podcast and here's something encouraging to you that might 659 00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:37.320 help you walk this way. And then you get to 660 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:40.679 the point where you start hearing from God and the 661 00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:45.719 same blessings that you want for yourself, He'll show you 662 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:49.960 how to be those blessings to other people. The same 663 00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:53.559 deliverance that you want from your for yourself. He will 664 00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:58.400 show you how to deliver someone else that way, and 665 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:04.599 you can do it. It's called powerful living, not powerful knowing, 666 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:11.199 not powerful thinking, not powerful talking. It's called powerful living. 667 00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:15.760 And it's a good life, y'all. And if you listen 668 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.320 to God more and more, you'll be able to do 669 00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:23.719 what I'm doing today and take a victory lap and say, Devil, 670 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:28.320 you have been defeated. God is getting the victory you 671 00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:31.760 lost and I won. 672 00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:38.679 Henry Flowers powerful living Ministries. I ain't going to where 673 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:39.880 I'm coming back.