# Why Do I Feel So Out Of Control // Receipts: The Proof Is In The Fruit ( Part 10) // Michael Todd

An episode of [Transformation Church](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1348831124), 8 Dec 2024, 1 h 38 min.

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In Week 10 of the Receipts series, Pastor Michael taught a powerful message on self-control. True self-control is not self-empowered—it’s a fruit of the Spirit. The fight of our lives is between sin control and Spirit control. Every day, we’re in a battle between letting our flesh lead or letting Holy Spirit guide us. The choices we make either feed our faith or feed our fear. We pray this message causes you to cultivate the fruit of self-control. Scripture References: Galatians 5:22-23 NLT Proverbs 25:28 NLT 2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV Proverbs 16:32 NLT Galatians 5:17 NLT Galatians 5:25 NLT

## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
[0:06] Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
[0:09] Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
[0:12] Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Do today's message.
[0:18] Speaker 2: Today? I wanted to preach a message and.
[0:23] Speaker 3: I simply want to give you the title now, and
[0:25] Speaker 3: I'm gonna remind you of it in.
[0:26] Speaker 2: Just a second.
[0:29] Speaker 3: I want to I want to preach a message called
[0:32] Speaker 3: why do I Feel so out of control? And I
[0:37] Speaker 3: know this is something that we don't talk about often,
[0:40] Speaker 3: but there are areas of our life that we feel
[0:43] Speaker 3: like we just can't get control over. Okay, we're a
[0:47] Speaker 3: hot church, humble, open and transparent. Does anybody in here
[0:50] Speaker 3: have at least two areas in your life?
[0:52] Speaker 2: It's like, why can't I get that under control? All right?
[0:56] Speaker 2: All right, thank you Holy Spirit. I'm in the right place.
[1:01] Speaker 3: Why do I feel so out of control?
[1:07] Speaker 2: And this year?
[1:08] Speaker 3: God told us this is a year that we would
[1:11] Speaker 3: maximize and focus on the word fruit.
[1:15] Speaker 2: And as we.
[1:16] Speaker 3: Do that, I was like, all right, Lord, how do
[1:18] Speaker 3: we get fruit? He said, you have to sow the
[1:20] Speaker 3: right seeds. And I'm not just talking about finances. I
[1:24] Speaker 3: want you to hear what I'm saying. You cannot get
[1:28] Speaker 3: fruit in the area of your marriage. If you do
[1:30] Speaker 3: not sow seed in the area of marriage. You cannot
[1:35] Speaker 3: get fruit in the area of health, and not so
[1:38] Speaker 3: seed in the area of health. You cannot become everything
[1:44] Speaker 3: that God has called you to be in a healthy
[1:48] Speaker 3: manner and not so seed in that area. And I
[1:53] Speaker 3: would just like to come up to many believers and
[1:56] Speaker 3: ask them, are you nuts because you are believing for
[2:02] Speaker 3: something in an area that you have sown no scene
[2:05] Speaker 3: in Many of us want friends and we do not
[2:14] Speaker 3: sow seeds of normal.
[2:21] Speaker 2: You not normal.
[2:24] Speaker 3: You won't even say hello when they say hello. You
[2:29] Speaker 3: won't answer the text message when the two people you
[2:33] Speaker 3: was trying to.
[2:33] Speaker 2: Be friend text you. You busy and booked like that.
[2:39] Speaker 3: No, But for some reason, I'm just giving a very
[2:43] Speaker 3: frivolous example to let people know this is.
[2:47] Speaker 2: Not the year to believe for where you have not sown.
[2:53] Speaker 3: Yes, God can supersede and step over boundaries and do
[2:58] Speaker 3: things that you didn't deserve. That is not the common practice.
[3:04] Speaker 3: That's why he gives us principles in his word. He
[3:08] Speaker 3: gives us principles because sometimes he'll pop.
[3:10] Speaker 2: Out and do the unexpected. So you know he can,
[3:15] Speaker 2: but he know about.
[3:16] Speaker 3: To pop out every time and do the unexpected when
[3:20] Speaker 3: you want steward what he gives you.
[3:23] Speaker 2: All the time.
[3:24] Speaker 3: Okay, So why do we feel out of control so
[3:29] Speaker 3: many times? Is because we have not sown the right
[3:33] Speaker 3: seed in the area that will give us. Watch what
[3:37] Speaker 3: we're talking about today, self control. Okay, Okay, I need
[3:46] Speaker 3: you to lock in.
[3:47] Speaker 2: I need you to check in with me for the next.
[3:49] Speaker 3: Forty minutes because this one is going to scrape against.
[3:56] Speaker 2: Your flesh.
[3:59] Speaker 3: Because when anybody bod he starts talking about self control,
[4:03] Speaker 3: they're actually coming at the parts of us that comfort
[4:06] Speaker 3: us the most.
[4:09] Speaker 2: The areas that comfort us.
[4:10] Speaker 3: The most are the places where we usually don't have
[4:13] Speaker 3: self control. Where do you go when you're emotionally outraged?
[4:21] Speaker 3: Where do you go when you don't feel like anybody
[4:24] Speaker 3: sees you? Where do you where do you get a snuggle.
[4:32] Speaker 2: When you lose?
[4:35] Speaker 3: That is the place where usually we have not figured
[4:40] Speaker 3: out how to let the Holy Spirit empower.
[4:42] Speaker 2: Us, even when we have an excuse to do it,
[4:45] Speaker 2: that we don't do it. So today I just want
[4:50] Speaker 2: to let you know if something comes.
[4:51] Speaker 4: Up to your mind like that im and you like
[4:55] Speaker 4: start feeling that on the inside, all those faces you
[5:00] Speaker 4: won't make, but you feel.
[5:03] Speaker 3: All of those things that make you want to click
[5:05] Speaker 3: out and go watch somebody else's message that's going to
[5:08] Speaker 3: speak to your blessing.
[5:12] Speaker 2: What I'm saying to you is God is blessing us.
[5:14] Speaker 3: In ways we can't even feel it, Oh God, because
[5:19] Speaker 3: we won't get self control, we won't let the Spirit
[5:22] Speaker 3: do the work on the inside of us to actually
[5:24] Speaker 3: live and walk in self control. So today I'm gonna
[5:27] Speaker 3: try to gently walk us through what the Holy Spirit
[5:32] Speaker 3: provides for us at salvation Galatians five twenty two. But
[5:37] Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in your life, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
[5:50] Speaker 3: and self control.
[5:53] Speaker 2: You didn't even say it. Say it with me self controul.
[5:56] Speaker 3: Say it like you won't it self control, say it
[5:59] Speaker 3: like you need it self control.
[6:03] Speaker 2: Why would the Holy Spirit produce self control? I started
[6:09] Speaker 2: to look at this thing, and I begin to.
[6:12] Speaker 3: Be confused because just by the mere words self control,
[6:18] Speaker 3: it feels a little confusing.
[6:22] Speaker 2: It feels like.
[6:25] Speaker 3: Self control should be initiated by me.
[6:29] Speaker 2: So is it spirit in power or is it me.
[6:34] Speaker 2: Is it my self control? Isn't me just saying I'm
[6:36] Speaker 2: not gonna do this no more. I'm not gonna do
[6:38] Speaker 2: this no more. Mine to look at me in the mirror.
[6:40] Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do this no.
[6:41] Speaker 3: More because because honestly, I've done to have a phone.
[6:49] Speaker 2: Okay, how many people told yourself you not doing it,
[6:53] Speaker 2: told other people you not doing it, wrote it on
[6:56] Speaker 2: your mirror, put it on your refrigerator, set it a
[6:59] Speaker 2: hard and somehow I'm in the right place today.
[7:09] Speaker 3: So self control, but the spirit produces self control. So
[7:18] Speaker 3: I went on a deep dive of trying to think,
[7:21] Speaker 3: how could I explain.
[7:23] Speaker 2: And how could I never let God's.
[7:26] Speaker 3: People be seduced by the lie of the enemy, that
[7:29] Speaker 3: God cares more about what our self wants than what
[7:34] Speaker 3: the spirit wants. And I really do believe I have clarity,
[7:38] Speaker 3: and I found it in the word of God. I'm
[7:40] Speaker 3: gonna give you a couple of scriptures that if you
[7:43] Speaker 3: have this thing in your back pocket at all times,
[7:47] Speaker 3: it's gonna save you. It's gonna be a way of
[7:49] Speaker 3: escape for you. Let me give you one that helped
[7:52] Speaker 3: me and helps me to this day. Proverbs twenty five
[7:56] Speaker 3: twenty eight, the wisest man that ever lived.
[7:58] Speaker 2: According to the Bible, Solomon wrote.
[8:00] Speaker 3: This, and he says this, a person without self control
[8:06] Speaker 3: is like a city with.
[8:08] Speaker 2: Broken down walls.
[8:12] Speaker 3: Get a mental image of a fortified city back in
[8:17] Speaker 3: the day, which was the only means of protection.
[8:22] Speaker 2: No cameras, no ring doorbells, no guard dog. It was
[8:27] Speaker 2: your city was.
[8:29] Speaker 3: Actually known by how strong its.
[8:32] Speaker 2: Walls were.
[8:35] Speaker 3: Because there was always an enemy trying to take your land.
[8:40] Speaker 3: So if you did not have fortified walls, you were
[8:44] Speaker 3: very vulnerable and could actually be taken advantage of at
[8:48] Speaker 3: any moment because.
[8:49] Speaker 2: You did not have. Everybody listen to this word protection.
[8:55] Speaker 3: This scripture says, having no self control is like being
[9:01] Speaker 3: a city with no protection, all your value vulnerable.
[9:09] Speaker 2: At every moment. You ain't got no self control.
[9:14] Speaker 3: One text message can set you back ten years.
[9:21] Speaker 2: One because you have no self control. What you're doing nothing.
[9:26] Speaker 2: What you're doing.
[9:29] Speaker 3: Ten years of mental, emotional, and physical sometimes abuse because
[9:37] Speaker 3: there is no self You're at the doctor for diseases
[9:43] Speaker 3: that don't even run in your family, asking God for
[9:49] Speaker 3: a miracle.
[9:52] Speaker 2: For something that.
[9:53] Speaker 3: Happened while you worked at the mall, and every day
[9:57] Speaker 3: for three years you ate at that food court.
[10:00] Speaker 2: Okay, I'm talking too real.
[10:02] Speaker 3: Right now, because you didn't have self control to walk
[10:06] Speaker 3: past andy hands.
[10:10] Speaker 2: She said, oh my coming, Oh my god, you've been following.
[10:12] Speaker 3: Me because you didn't have self control not to get
[10:17] Speaker 3: the sugar dip pretzels with the sever cream and the
[10:23] Speaker 3: shruckberry lemonade.
[10:30] Speaker 2: Come on, y'all, you'll become watching.
[10:34] Speaker 3: Your vision becomes vulnerable, so God can have asked you
[10:38] Speaker 3: to do something. But because you were vulnerable, you were
[10:41] Speaker 3: like a city without Waltz. You had no self control.
[10:44] Speaker 3: You literally get pillaged, plumaged, and stolen from all the time.
[10:51] Speaker 3: Not because you're a bad person, not because you don't
[10:54] Speaker 3: hear from God. It's because you have not allowed the
[10:57] Speaker 3: Holy Spirit to work the fruit in you of self control.
[11:02] Speaker 2: And I want you to think about the.
[11:04] Speaker 3: Area of your greatest robbery and ask yourself, do I
[11:10] Speaker 3: have self.
[11:11] Speaker 2: Control around that area?
[11:15] Speaker 3: Whereas God trying to build watch this protection for you.
[11:20] Speaker 3: So when I read this, this is what came out.
[11:22] Speaker 3: Write this down as a point. Self control is safety.
[11:28] Speaker 3: If you would view self control of being able to
[11:32] Speaker 3: actually not do everything you feel like doing, not buying
[11:36] Speaker 3: everything you feel like buying.
[11:38] Speaker 2: Not going every place you feel like going. If you
[11:41] Speaker 2: actually could.
[11:42] Speaker 3: Get that practice in your life, God says, you'll be protected.
[11:47] Speaker 2: You're gonna be safe. Self control is safety.
[11:50] Speaker 3: And the reason I wrote it down like that is
[11:52] Speaker 3: because I've never thought about self control being a good thing.
[11:57] Speaker 2: Really, because of the word controlling it.
[12:01] Speaker 3: Can we be honest anytime anybody talks about control, unless
[12:04] Speaker 3: of Jenny Jackson singing the song, I don't want nothing.
[12:07] Speaker 2: To do with it. You want to control me, You
[12:11] Speaker 2: wanna tell me what to do. You don't know what's
[12:14] Speaker 2: best for me.
[12:14] Speaker 3: And now I bring a worldly thought to a kingdom principle.
[12:23] Speaker 3: God said, one of the nine receipts I want you
[12:25] Speaker 3: to have is self control.
[12:27] Speaker 2: He said, he wants us to have self control.
[12:29] Speaker 3: And because we have been controlled by people, controlled by systems,
[12:33] Speaker 3: controlled by other things that weren't in our mind, in
[12:36] Speaker 3: our best interests, then we apply worldly experiences to kingdom principles.
[12:46] Speaker 2: And so many of us shy.
[12:48] Speaker 3: Away from self control because I'm actually free to do
[12:51] Speaker 3: whatever I want to do. And God said, are you really?
[12:55] Speaker 3: Because if you have to drink, are you free.
[13:03] Speaker 2: If you can't deny the sale? No, no, no no, But
[13:07] Speaker 2: you aunder saying back the body, what these candles are
[13:09] Speaker 2: ten dollars? Right now? They're ten? Somebody was just convicted
[13:14] Speaker 2: for real. You got four hundred candles for an apartment.
[13:22] Speaker 2: You have a candle for every square foot of the
[13:25] Speaker 2: place that you live here.
[13:32] Speaker 5: Think about it, y'all.
[13:35] Speaker 2: Then God asks you to do something with resources, and you.
[13:40] Speaker 3: Don't have cash, you have candles.
[13:49] Speaker 2: You're and you're too prideful.
[13:52] Speaker 3: To get on the side of the apartment complex with
[13:55] Speaker 3: a table. See, they don't know what real obedience of psch.
[14:01] Speaker 3: God told you to do something, and you sitting there
[14:03] Speaker 3: ritch in candles, paint in candles, and monks burned twenty
[14:08] Speaker 3: days at a time.
[14:13] Speaker 2: I'm just trying to.
[14:13] Speaker 3: Paint the picture of Sometimes our obedience is delayed because
[14:19] Speaker 3: we have not been protected by self.
[14:23] Speaker 2: Control tawo Timothy one seven. Here's a revelation.
[14:31] Speaker 6: Check this.
[14:33] Speaker 3: We've said this scripture a lot of times, but we've
[14:35] Speaker 3: not correlated to self control.
[14:37] Speaker 2: Look at this.
[14:37] Speaker 7: God has not given us a spirit of what fit
[14:42] Speaker 7: all yellowboski tie shit about a Honda, But what.
[14:48] Speaker 2: Kind of spirit did he give us?
[14:50] Speaker 3: Long power and und If you look that word up
[14:55] Speaker 3: in the original language and you can even read it.
[14:58] Speaker 3: In the ESV version, it says God did not give
[15:00] Speaker 3: us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and
[15:04] Speaker 3: self control. Why would God give a self control instead
[15:13] Speaker 3: of fear.
[15:16] Speaker 2: The opposite of fear. I didn't give you fear. I
[15:19] Speaker 2: gave you self control, because what.
[15:22] Speaker 3: Fear is is undisciplined thoughts.
[15:29] Speaker 5: All fear is is.
[15:33] Speaker 2: Thoughts without self control. So you walk into a dark room.
[15:37] Speaker 2: Somebody's about to come off the ceiling. Somebody's about to
[15:39] Speaker 2: kill me. There's a sniper on me right now. Oh
[15:41] Speaker 2: my God, I'm dying right now. I'm dying right now.
[15:44] Speaker 2: None of it happened. None of it happened.
[15:49] Speaker 3: You just walked into a dark room, and all you
[15:52] Speaker 3: need to do is flip on the switch.
[15:53] Speaker 2: You had a power to turn the light on.
[15:57] Speaker 3: I feel this city, but without an undisciplined thought life.
[16:04] Speaker 2: You automatically. God did not give us the spirit the
[16:13] Speaker 2: spirit of fear.
[16:16] Speaker 3: So self control is a spirit empowered by the Holy Spirit.
[16:25] Speaker 3: Like do you see the spirit of fear needs to
[16:29] Speaker 3: be replaced with the spirit of self control.
[16:32] Speaker 2: You're afraid of the future.
[16:35] Speaker 3: I need to train my thoughts around what God says
[16:37] Speaker 3: about the future. I'm afraid to get married because what
[16:41] Speaker 3: I saw happened to so many others.
[16:44] Speaker 2: I need to train my thoughts.
[16:47] Speaker 3: I need self control. This good already, y'all. This feel
[16:52] Speaker 3: real good. Okay, so proverb sixteen thirty two. I'm just
[16:56] Speaker 3: trying to give you a lot of Bible.
[16:58] Speaker 2: It's better to be paid than powerful.
[17:01] Speaker 3: I could preach a whole message on that just right there,
[17:04] Speaker 3: but check out the second part. But it's better to
[17:07] Speaker 3: have self control than conquer a city.
[17:13] Speaker 2: A kingdom principle. Write this now is self control is
[17:17] Speaker 2: better than success. Hear what I just said to.
[17:22] Speaker 3: You, because some of us, we can look at your.
[17:24] Speaker 2: Facebook feed and see all you want to do is
[17:26] Speaker 2: be successful. Every other quote.
[17:30] Speaker 8: What a millionaire would do with his day? What starting
[17:43] Speaker 8: a new podcast?
[17:44] Speaker 2: Millionaire? Mindset by me like a womb.
[17:51] Speaker 3: Okay, you need to gash at me.
[17:55] Speaker 2: Still, you need to pay me back. I'm sorry, y'all.
[18:01] Speaker 2: I feel good up here. I'm not trying to come
[18:06] Speaker 2: against anybody's dreams.
[18:07] Speaker 3: What I'm saying is God says success should not be
[18:10] Speaker 3: more important to you than self control. Because whatever the
[18:14] Speaker 3: men of this world and the women of this world
[18:17] Speaker 3: deem successful does not equate in heaven. Money's nothing in heaven,
[18:24] Speaker 3: Oh God. Houses are nothing in heaven, Bitcoin and investments
[18:31] Speaker 3: in For one case, the Bible says it like this,
[18:34] Speaker 3: Why would you store up your riches and all this
[18:38] Speaker 3: earth stuff. You can't take this with you instead? Why
[18:41] Speaker 3: didn't you put it in the kingdom. Why wouldn't you
[18:43] Speaker 3: put it in something that will last eternally.
[18:45] Speaker 2: I'm saying we all.
[18:46] Speaker 3: Need money to success, to live and to actually help
[18:49] Speaker 3: people and all that stuff. That's not what I'm saying.
[18:51] Speaker 3: I'm just saying is if it's in priority over God.
[18:54] Speaker 3: God said it would be better for you to have
[18:57] Speaker 3: self control in your little apartment than run the whole city.
[19:05] Speaker 2: This made me check my motives, desires.
[19:09] Speaker 5: And wants.
[19:11] Speaker 3: Because a lot of times I don't be asking God
[19:14] Speaker 3: on my crazy car, crazy faith card.
[19:16] Speaker 2: For more self control. If I go back to the
[19:21] Speaker 2: building and put.
[19:22] Speaker 3: Them cards off of there, I bet I'm the see
[19:25] Speaker 3: houses and debts paid off, and and and be able
[19:28] Speaker 3: to bless my mama with a car and do all.
[19:30] Speaker 2: The other things how many people put God.
[19:33] Speaker 3: I want to be able to not talk crazy God.
[19:39] Speaker 2: I want to be able to.
[19:40] Speaker 3: See somebody that I knew did me wrong and treat
[19:43] Speaker 3: them with kindness.
[19:45] Speaker 2: Oh that's something.
[19:46] Speaker 3: Money came by, Holy Spirit.
[19:49] Speaker 2: I want to be able to walk in a room.
[19:52] Speaker 3: And since the needs of the people can be led
[19:56] Speaker 3: to the person you want to speak to and give
[19:59] Speaker 3: them words of knowledge and not weird way, but that
[20:05] Speaker 3: will encourage them to live and not die. I've seen
[20:09] Speaker 3: people write sonnets on things.
[20:14] Speaker 2: But not on transformation.
[20:19] Speaker 3: And God saying it's better for you to have self
[20:21] Speaker 3: control over this than to run the whole city.
[20:24] Speaker 2: Okay, why is this important, pastor mic?
[20:27] Speaker 3: Because self control write this down is the only thing
[20:30] Speaker 3: that combats compromise. When you have self control, you are
[20:38] Speaker 3: fortified and you do not get played by the enemy
[20:42] Speaker 3: when compromise tries to come in.
[20:46] Speaker 2: Oh god, see, most people don't understand what compromise is.
[20:50] Speaker 3: Has any okay, has anybody ever gone to a game
[20:53] Speaker 3: or gone to a play, or gone to something and
[20:55] Speaker 3: somebody will give you a comp ticket, like a ticket?
[21:00] Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you want to come to the fair.
[21:01] Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I run the fair.
[21:02] Speaker 3: Let me give you some comp tickets like what it
[21:05] Speaker 3: means is free.
[21:08] Speaker 2: And then that word compromise. The word in there is promise.
[21:14] Speaker 2: When you experience compromise.
[21:16] Speaker 3: What it means is you give the promise away for free.
[21:23] Speaker 2: You are compromised.
[21:26] Speaker 3: So the reason God doesn't want you in that relationship
[21:28] Speaker 3: with them is because when you get with them, your
[21:31] Speaker 3: purity is compromise. You about to give away your promise
[21:36] Speaker 3: for free. He won't even take you to chatters, and
[21:39] Speaker 3: he has you sneaking through a back door of his
[21:42] Speaker 3: frat brother's house.
[21:44] Speaker 2: You don't even own our house, can't come pick you up.
[21:46] Speaker 3: He sends you fifteen dollars for an Oprah, and he
[21:49] Speaker 3: has you.
[21:49] Speaker 2: About to give.
[21:51] Speaker 3: Your promise away. Compromise got people in the church manipulating
[22:03] Speaker 3: people to stroke their ego because they won't actually do
[22:07] Speaker 3: something of value, and they're sending people in cycles of
[22:12] Speaker 3: depression and allegiance and all these different things. Don't you
[22:19] Speaker 3: realize being a part of that got you compromise.
[22:28] Speaker 2: The only thing that can come back compromise is self control.
[22:32] Speaker 2: You know what I do respect you, and I believe
[22:36] Speaker 2: that you are fine. Not I believe I have faith.
[22:42] Speaker 2: Matter of fact, I have seen with my own eyes.
[22:45] Speaker 2: Come on, you don't gotta be ridiculous.
[22:48] Speaker 3: I would like to live in harmony with you as
[22:52] Speaker 3: Adam and Eve did in the garden with.
[22:55] Speaker 2: Nothing, believes in between nothing.
[23:00] Speaker 3: Come on, y'all, let's be You don't have to deny.
[23:07] Speaker 3: But every time I talk to you, something in me weakens,
[23:15] Speaker 3: and the conviction I have kept that this would only
[23:19] Speaker 3: be for the person I marry be comes very What
[23:30] Speaker 3: were we talking about again?
[23:32] Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying, y'all acting like that don't happen.
[23:41] Speaker 3: Some of y'all are the people that I say, you're
[23:43] Speaker 3: wear down, People that the first time you'll know is
[23:46] Speaker 3: super strong. But if they just ask you enough times,
[23:51] Speaker 3: if they ask you watch this.
[23:52] Speaker 2: At the right time, we will give away the promise
[23:59] Speaker 2: for free. How do we not compromise? We get everybody
[24:02] Speaker 2: say self control?
[24:05] Speaker 3: Ah okay, so again the sermon title was why do
[24:09] Speaker 3: I feel so out of control?
[24:12] Speaker 2: Let me tell you what control is to.
[24:14] Speaker 3: Have power over influence, to direct people's behavior or the
[24:19] Speaker 3: course of an event. My question to you is what
[24:23] Speaker 3: is controlling you? And I need you to answer that
[24:27] Speaker 3: question honestly right now in your life? What is controlling you?
[24:35] Speaker 2: Is it food?
[24:37] Speaker 3: Is it finances? Is it people's opinion? Is it an
[24:42] Speaker 3: image you made in your head when you were thirteen.
[24:47] Speaker 2: What's controlling you? Is it social media? Is it?
[24:51] Speaker 9: Is it?
[24:54] Speaker 2: Is it a desire that secret? What is controlling you?
[25:00] Speaker 2: Is it fear to not ever live the life you
[25:03] Speaker 2: came from. Okay, let's be honest.
[25:06] Speaker 3: Because sometimes the thing that's controlling us is not a thing.
[25:10] Speaker 3: It's an idea that we'll never go back to, and
[25:14] Speaker 3: so we'll run ourselves ragged trying to be something.
[25:17] Speaker 2: That we're not.
[25:18] Speaker 3: And statistics tell us that what you're running from usually
[25:22] Speaker 3: is what you've become.
[25:26] Speaker 2: And I know there's some people ain't no control to me.
[25:28] Speaker 2: I can do whatever God tell me to do whenever
[25:30] Speaker 2: I tell well, God tells me to do it.
[25:32] Speaker 3: Is your past relationship still control for you because you're married,
[25:36] Speaker 3: but you're on Facebook looking at your high school sweethearts?
[25:42] Speaker 2: I wonder what the kwanda doing? She got three kids?
[25:47] Speaker 2: Now look at I look at them little.
[26:03] Speaker 3: I just know there's an area that all of us
[26:07] Speaker 3: may need to be real about right now that's controlling
[26:10] Speaker 3: more of our actions than the spirit is. I did
[26:18] Speaker 3: all this talking to bring you to the point to
[26:20] Speaker 3: at least let you know you may need some self control,
[26:27] Speaker 3: You may need to let the Holy Spirit work in
[26:30] Speaker 3: you at a whole nother level so that he can
[26:33] Speaker 3: fight for you in the areas that you failed in
[26:36] Speaker 3: over and over again. Because some things, let me be
[26:39] Speaker 3: very clear, some things are a decision. Some things are
[26:43] Speaker 3: just you need to decide.
[26:46] Speaker 2: I ain't doing this no more. Everything don't need prayer, Oh.
[26:50] Speaker 3: God, Everything don't need a prophetic word. If you have
[26:56] Speaker 3: a propensity towards something and you go to a place
[26:59] Speaker 3: that says that thing on the outside.
[27:00] Speaker 2: Of it, on the marquee, y'all need a purpose that.
[27:08] Speaker 2: But there are other things that are more.
[27:12] Speaker 3: How can I say this? They're strongholds. I don't just
[27:20] Speaker 3: see it in me. I saw it in my dad.
[27:23] Speaker 3: It's generational.
[27:27] Speaker 2: And today I want to let you know that there
[27:28] Speaker 2: is a.
[27:28] Speaker 3: Remedy for that that has been given by the Holy Spirit.
[27:32] Speaker 3: Let me lighten it up right now, because some of
[27:33] Speaker 3: y'all think that you're all about to get exposed.
[27:35] Speaker 2: And you are. But let me just bring it up
[27:37] Speaker 2: for just a second.
[27:39] Speaker 3: How many people were alive when the Atari poeng came out?
[27:42] Speaker 2: How many people Atari like video games? Okay? I need
[27:45] Speaker 2: to know, okay, okay, how many of y'all? Yeah, Because
[27:48] Speaker 2: I wasn't alive when that? Anybody said, But how many
[27:51] Speaker 2: y'all was your game system when you were a kid? Nintendo?
[27:53] Speaker 3: How many people come on Super Nintendo? Okay, okay, all right,
[27:58] Speaker 3: some of y'all weren't here yet, there's some people in
[28:00] Speaker 3: here that's like, what are you talking about?
[28:02] Speaker 2: Okay, maybe this will get you.
[28:03] Speaker 3: How many people knew about a Sega Genesis?
[28:05] Speaker 2: Yeah, Sonic all the rings? Okay?
[28:08] Speaker 10: Yeah?
[28:08] Speaker 3: How many people know about the Sony PlayStation? I ain't
[28:10] Speaker 3: talking about this new thing that stands up. I'm talking
[28:12] Speaker 3: about the great one, the box with the circles young
[28:15] Speaker 3: when you had to take the CD out and lick
[28:17] Speaker 3: on it. And then y'all know nothing about that. Okay,
[28:22] Speaker 3: y'all know what I'm saying. And then how many y'all
[28:25] Speaker 3: know about the Nintendo sixty four when the sixty four
[28:28] Speaker 3: came out?
[28:28] Speaker 2: Okay? And then we go Xbox, and then we go
[28:32] Speaker 2: what's the mother one's GameCube? People who have a GameCube?
[28:37] Speaker 2: I have questions about anyway?
[28:39] Speaker 3: And then we's and then okay, we'z and then and
[28:43] Speaker 3: now it's gone to like the PSPs, the personal computers,
[28:51] Speaker 3: the switch, the get yet like wow, PS fives, you
[28:56] Speaker 3: know what we can all agree that no matter how
[29:00] Speaker 3: much the technology and the graphics have upgraded from the
[29:06] Speaker 3: Atari poem all the way to the PS five, every
[29:09] Speaker 3: system still.
[29:10] Speaker 2: Has a controller.
[29:15] Speaker 3: What it means is it doesn't matter how much you upgrade.
[29:20] Speaker 2: Something still will have control in your life. So this
[29:27] Speaker 2: is what I'm gonna tell you. Write it down.
[29:29] Speaker 3: The fight of your life is versus sin control or
[29:35] Speaker 3: spirit control. This is what's fighting every day you wake
[29:42] Speaker 3: up to control you.
[29:46] Speaker 2: And my question is who is controlling you?
[29:48] Speaker 3: Do a serious evaluation on your life right now when
[29:52] Speaker 3: you wake up ding ding is a battle who gonna
[29:59] Speaker 3: win today? My spirit controlling me or my sin nature
[30:05] Speaker 3: controlling me?
[30:06] Speaker 2: And some of us have been living in one so
[30:09] Speaker 2: long we didn't even know it was an option. We
[30:14] Speaker 2: war governors like, this is what I do?
[30:15] Speaker 3: Oh, that's natural because.
[30:18] Speaker 2: We were all born into our sin nature.
[30:24] Speaker 3: Okay, how can I show y'all this Galatians five seventeen.
[30:29] Speaker 2: Listen to this. The sinful nature wants to do evil,
[30:34] Speaker 2: which is just the opposite or.
[30:37] Speaker 3: The opponent of what the spirit wants. And the spirit
[30:41] Speaker 3: gives us desires that are the opposite of what are sinful.
[30:45] Speaker 2: Look at this word nature. That word means natural.
[30:52] Speaker 3: Our natural ideas will be sinful, our natural wants will
[30:59] Speaker 3: be sinful.
[31:00] Speaker 2: It's because of the world we were.
[31:02] Speaker 3: Born into after Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Well, I
[31:07] Speaker 3: am a good person. Yes, you are a good person.
[31:10] Speaker 3: Yet your nature is sinful. I need everybody to hear
[31:16] Speaker 3: me say this so clearly. These two forces are constantly
[31:20] Speaker 3: fighting each other. Watch this, So you are not free.
[31:27] Speaker 2: I just want to stop right there.
[31:29] Speaker 3: The sin nature and the spirit nature are fighting every day.
[31:35] Speaker 2: So you're not free. So you're not free to carry
[31:39] Speaker 2: out your good intentions. Oh this is good.
[31:42] Speaker 3: Bible intentions don't matter if you have the wrong controller.
[31:50] Speaker 3: Can you put my example on the screen real quick?
[31:53] Speaker 3: I need you to see this because I was like,
[31:55] Speaker 3: how can I depict to you what it looks like
[31:59] Speaker 3: when you are controled by the spirit and when you
[32:02] Speaker 3: are controlled by the flesh. I need everybody to hear
[32:05] Speaker 3: me say this real quick. Your spirit man has to
[32:09] Speaker 3: actually get strong enough to be able to defeat your
[32:14] Speaker 3: flesh man daily, not at church, not once a week,
[32:22] Speaker 3: not once a year, every single day.
[32:27] Speaker 2: Some of y'all need to change your alarm to a
[32:29] Speaker 2: boxing bell, ding ding ding, y'all don't hear me.
[32:33] Speaker 3: Just to remind yourself, it's a fight.
[32:38] Speaker 2: I don't hear Some of.
[32:40] Speaker 3: Us wake up so nonchalant, like.
[32:43] Speaker 2: Oh, today's gonna be a great day, depending on who
[32:49] Speaker 2: you let win.
[32:53] Speaker 3: This is what I call the battle for my life.
[33:02] Speaker 3: And every day that I wake up, I gotta decide
[33:07] Speaker 3: who's gonna win.
[33:08] Speaker 2: See, the problem is.
[33:11] Speaker 3: We all start here, everybody starts being led by the flesh.
[33:18] Speaker 3: And this is the thing I came to actually tell you,
[33:22] Speaker 3: is that when you get saved, your spirit man, your
[33:27] Speaker 3: spirit comes alive.
[33:29] Speaker 2: It doesn't win.
[33:35] Speaker 3: It's the first time it says, but it's a newborn baby.
[33:42] Speaker 2: This is why we read the word, this is why
[33:46] Speaker 2: we come to church. You've been led by your flesh
[33:50] Speaker 2: for thirty two years.
[33:53] Speaker 3: And you'll be like, why do I still struggle with
[33:55] Speaker 3: these temptations. It's because your spirit man comes alive. But
[34:01] Speaker 3: every day if you do not feed it the right things,
[34:07] Speaker 3: it gets beat the hell up. I need to say
[34:11] Speaker 3: it just like that, because some of y'all come to prayer,
[34:17] Speaker 3: but that forty five minutes of prayer has not been leading.
[34:21] Speaker 2: Your thoughts all day. The shade room has.
[34:27] Speaker 3: So you know, more about what rapper is sleeping, what
[34:29] Speaker 3: what rapper and what government official has cheated on their wife,
[34:34] Speaker 3: and you know more about all of these different things.
[34:37] Speaker 2: That is feeding a nature gluttony.
[34:42] Speaker 11: Oh oh, this nasty eating.
[34:55] Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be that salacious.
[34:58] Speaker 3: It could be a text message that says something like this,
[35:00] Speaker 3: did you hear about them?
[35:04] Speaker 2: Hear about them?
[35:06] Speaker 3: I'm over here trying to read songs, Siri, text them,
[35:13] Speaker 3: tell me more.
[35:16] Speaker 2: And at that moment, well, I don't know if it's true,
[35:21] Speaker 2: but or if somebody starts a sentence to you like this,
[35:28] Speaker 2: I don't.
[35:30] Speaker 3: I don't really I don't really be gossiping. But if
[35:40] Speaker 3: they tell you what it's not. Last night, my daughter
[35:44] Speaker 3: GG came to me with white stuff.
[35:45] Speaker 2: All over her hands, and I was cleaning up something
[35:49] Speaker 2: else and I said, Gg, what is that? She said, Daddy,
[35:53] Speaker 2: is not pain.
[36:01] Speaker 3: And that's how many times we look because I'm trying
[36:07] Speaker 3: to hide what I'm telling you.
[36:08] Speaker 9: It is.
[36:11] Speaker 12: God.
[36:13] Speaker 2: And so when I wake up in the morning, I
[36:15] Speaker 2: have good intentions, but I may be sin control. Watch this.
[36:19] Speaker 2: Sin control is.
[36:20] Speaker 3: Making decisions based on what feels natural to your flesh.
[36:25] Speaker 2: So your sin nature wants to do evil, your sin nature.
[36:29] Speaker 3: Your sin nature gives desires, and your sinful nature is
[36:33] Speaker 3: fighting for control. That's what pride and selfishness and gossip
[36:37] Speaker 3: and throwing shage and judgment comes from. But spirit control
[36:41] Speaker 3: is watch this, write this down. It's making decisions against ourselves.
[36:48] Speaker 3: If you are spirit controlled, you are making decisions against
[36:52] Speaker 3: your natural inclination. I want to cuss you out, but
[36:57] Speaker 3: Pastor talked about kindness last week, and you better be glad.
[37:02] Speaker 2: I watched that surface and guess who won in that moment?
[37:11] Speaker 2: Your spirit want.
[37:13] Speaker 3: My question is how many battles do you forfeit? Because
[37:18] Speaker 3: you don't even try to let your spirit fight.
[37:23] Speaker 2: You've already decided this is just the way I am.
[37:27] Speaker 2: This is how my family is.
[37:28] Speaker 3: And I came to tell you a person without self
[37:32] Speaker 3: control just.
[37:34] Speaker 2: Like a city with their walls torn down.
[37:37] Speaker 3: It's just the moment's notice that everything valuable in you
[37:41] Speaker 3: can be pillaged because you have not allowed the Holy
[37:45] Speaker 3: Spirit to develop self control in you. I heard this
[37:48] Speaker 3: poem said one time. It says two natures beat within
[37:51] Speaker 3: my breast. One is foul and one is blessed. One
[37:57] Speaker 3: I love and.
[37:58] Speaker 2: One I hate. The one I feed will dominate.
[38:09] Speaker 3: There's certain movies I can't watch, not because they're not creative,
[38:17] Speaker 3: and not because I don't like the trailer.
[38:20] Speaker 2: I actually love the trailer. That's why I want to
[38:22] Speaker 2: watch the movie.
[38:25] Speaker 3: I think sometimes Christians be like denying reality, like that's stupid,
[38:30] Speaker 3: Like that aroused my flesh. I want to see if
[38:34] Speaker 3: right when they was about to take the thing off
[38:37] Speaker 3: and then it cut off and then somebody pumps somebody.
[38:41] Speaker 3: I want to see how that all ends. I want
[38:42] Speaker 3: to see how that materializes in real life.
[38:46] Speaker 2: I want to actually know. Can we be honest? You
[38:53] Speaker 2: want to go see that?
[38:54] Speaker 3: Nah? Bro, it's all good, man, Nah, I don't want
[38:56] Speaker 3: to see that. Let's go see mahna.
[39:03] Speaker 2: Oh this is real, bro.
[39:06] Speaker 10: I'm not going down.
[39:07] Speaker 12: You're a girl, man.
[39:07] Speaker 10: I'm not about to go to.
[39:08] Speaker 2: See more model with you, all right, corew man, I
[39:10] Speaker 2: mean I can't go.
[39:13] Speaker 3: Why you don't understand I used to be controlled by
[39:21] Speaker 3: my sin nature and my sin nature, I don't know
[39:25] Speaker 3: about yours. It doesn't need much to eat to get
[39:30] Speaker 3: very strong.
[39:32] Speaker 2: Oh my god, I only need a little bit. I
[39:39] Speaker 2: don't need. I don't need, I don't need a feast.
[39:40] Speaker 3: I just need to taste, and when I when I
[39:44] Speaker 3: live on that line, when when I when I get
[39:47] Speaker 3: that close, I become a compromised or I'm in a
[39:52] Speaker 3: place where I can give away a promise for.
[39:54] Speaker 13: Free, all that God has done in my life, and
[39:58] Speaker 13: one website could take away my credibility to stand up
[40:03] Speaker 13: here and transform millions.
[40:05] Speaker 3: Of people's lives. The reason why everybody in my circle
[40:10] Speaker 3: got the codes to my phones can go in my email.
[40:13] Speaker 2: Not because if I'm a grown man, I'm the pastor
[40:15] Speaker 2: I'm the leader. Moe could ruin me today. I'm putting
[40:18] Speaker 2: it on camera just so y'all know. If anything happens
[40:20] Speaker 2: to me Modida.
[40:21] Speaker 3: I just call him.
[40:29] Speaker 2: But I need to be honest.
[40:30] Speaker 3: I live so open with the people around me, and
[40:35] Speaker 3: they can tell.
[40:35] Speaker 2: You because all my flesh needs is a little secret.
[40:44] Speaker 2: All my flesh needs is a little side money, don't
[40:50] Speaker 2: I mean? This ain't wrong. Other people do this all
[40:52] Speaker 2: the time. But because of the call on your life,
[40:56] Speaker 2: many can, but you cannot.
[41:01] Speaker 3: And without self control, you mean I would throw away
[41:05] Speaker 3: my marriage for fifteen years, twenty four years of knowing.
[41:11] Speaker 4: Her to satisfy my flesh.
[41:15] Speaker 2: When I'm angry, I'm gonna throw away the model I've.
[41:21] Speaker 3: Been to my daughters of how a man is supposed
[41:24] Speaker 3: to treat and protect him.
[41:26] Speaker 2: You mean, I'm gonna throw away what.
[41:27] Speaker 3: I've built for Ava, Bella and Jia and MJ for
[41:32] Speaker 3: a moment at a club. But that's where everybody's that's
[41:39] Speaker 3: where everybody's connecting.
[41:40] Speaker 2: At I guess I'm not supposed to connect with you.
[41:45] Speaker 3: Oh, these are real decisions I've made. Oh No, the
[41:47] Speaker 3: after parties at the club can't go there. Oh because
[41:50] Speaker 3: you're a pastor. No, because I'm a man of God.
[41:52] Speaker 2: See, this is a difference. There's a difference between my
[41:55] Speaker 2: position and my person.
[41:57] Speaker 3: There's a difference between my conviction, my calling, and without
[42:06] Speaker 3: self control, I am like a city.
[42:10] Speaker 2: Oh my wall's torn down.
[42:12] Speaker 3: And the saddest part of most believers is you can
[42:15] Speaker 3: see where the walls used to be.
[42:18] Speaker 10: Godly.
[42:20] Speaker 3: I can hear in your voice where you used to
[42:23] Speaker 3: have a conviction.
[42:26] Speaker 2: I can hear in your voice where you used to
[42:28] Speaker 2: have a boundary. I can see in the way you
[42:32] Speaker 2: live where you used to draw a line.
[42:35] Speaker 3: And all I see is rubble where there should be righteousness.
[42:44] Speaker 2: Church.
[42:47] Speaker 3: Today, I'm giving you an opportunity to choose.
[42:54] Speaker 2: What is the choice.
[42:56] Speaker 3: Every day you wake up, you start a neutral This
[43:00] Speaker 3: is why I start every day praying, because when I pray,
[43:06] Speaker 3: it honestly becomes a habit. But habit can be a
[43:12] Speaker 3: bad thing too, because every day I could get up
[43:14] Speaker 3: and scroll. Okay, come on, y'all if the first thing
[43:19] Speaker 3: that I do is see what everybody else is doing
[43:23] Speaker 3: and not ask God what I should be doing. So
[43:27] Speaker 3: maybe I don't need a habit that's negative. Maybe I
[43:30] Speaker 3: need accountability. Maybe I need that little Bible.
[43:34] Speaker 2: I have to be like ding dang June four.
[43:40] Speaker 3: And maybe before I open up my phone, or maybe
[43:43] Speaker 3: before I turn on the news, or maybe before I
[43:46] Speaker 3: do this, I just thank God and I pray, and
[43:48] Speaker 3: I spend a little time, not because I'm trying to
[43:51] Speaker 3: be religious, because I'm trying to be protected.
[43:56] Speaker 2: Oh my God, I need everybody to hear there's a
[43:59] Speaker 2: difference between all I pray. I gotta prayer. God, God, God, Father, God,
[44:05] Speaker 2: you don't care nothing about that. Your heart was not
[44:08] Speaker 2: in that at all.
[44:10] Speaker 3: But just saying, Father, today I'm tired, and I know
[44:13] Speaker 3: I'm susceptible to anger.
[44:17] Speaker 2: Father, I have been on edge about the financial situation.
[44:23] Speaker 2: I'm going through.
[44:26] Speaker 3: So your word says that you're a prince of peace,
[44:29] Speaker 3: and today I'm asking that you would lead to be
[44:33] Speaker 3: to make decisions that would rest in your peace.
[44:38] Speaker 2: And God.
[44:39] Speaker 3: Also, I don't feel good about myself right now. I
[44:41] Speaker 3: got on the scale yesterday and after the holidays, it
[44:44] Speaker 3: had I don't know if it's.
[44:45] Speaker 2: Broken or not, but no, I'm talking about real prayers,
[44:50] Speaker 2: like it had a few more numbers than I was expecting.
[44:58] Speaker 3: And that actually has nothing to do about me being healthy.
[45:01] Speaker 3: It has everything to do with how I see myself.
[45:06] Speaker 3: And since I was young, I've always had self esteem
[45:10] Speaker 3: issues based on the way I look. And today, could
[45:14] Speaker 3: you just remind me that I'm beautiful?
[45:18] Speaker 2: Father?
[45:19] Speaker 3: I never had anybody tell me that I was beautiful
[45:21] Speaker 3: without wanting something in return.
[45:24] Speaker 2: So today God, could you just remind.
[45:26] Speaker 3: Me in your word that I'm beautifully and wonderfully made.
[45:32] Speaker 2: And last, thank God, Today.
[45:36] Speaker 3: Thomas is going to be at the office and I
[45:40] Speaker 3: hate Thomas. Come on, y'all, see, y'all don't want a
[45:46] Speaker 3: real relationship with God. God. I know we're not supposed
[45:49] Speaker 3: to hate, but if the line is strong, dislike, I
[45:53] Speaker 3: really hate Thomas. And today God, I can feel it now.
[45:59] Speaker 3: If he says is one thing to me out out
[46:03] Speaker 3: the side of his mouth.
[46:08] Speaker 2: But I desire.
[46:11] Speaker 3: To be like you and look like you, and so
[46:16] Speaker 3: it is gonna be difficult for me to be kind
[46:19] Speaker 3: to Thomas today.
[46:21] Speaker 2: I'm not asking for the weak. Lord, that would be
[46:23] Speaker 2: too much, that would be.
[46:29] Speaker 3: That would be an outrageous request. But today's Lord, come
[46:39] Speaker 3: on y'all. But today, Lord, our Father, who are in heaven,
[46:51] Speaker 3: holy and hallow, would be your name, Thy Kingdom, Come,
[46:55] Speaker 3: Your will be done here on earth as it is
[46:58] Speaker 3: in heaven. Give me this day enough for Thomas. Did
[47:11] Speaker 3: you just see, like I actually displayed for you what
[47:15] Speaker 3: a life led by the spirit looks like.
[47:18] Speaker 2: And I'm just giving you an example. But all I'm
[47:20] Speaker 2: saying is, if you do not.
[47:22] Speaker 3: Listen to the Spirit of God, it then leaves you vulnerable.
[47:28] Speaker 2: We're getting out of here. If you get accountable, watch this.
[47:31] Speaker 3: Your accountability turns into discipline.
[47:36] Speaker 2: And what you do in a disciplined life. I'm gonna
[47:40] Speaker 2: have to do a whole series on this.
[47:42] Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to do a whole series on this
[47:44] Speaker 3: thing and bring this chart back every week because I
[47:47] Speaker 3: need to teach all of these But what I'm just
[47:50] Speaker 3: trying to get you to see today is the value.
[47:54] Speaker 3: There are certain things that have happened on my health
[47:56] Speaker 3: journey that I would not have been able to do
[47:58] Speaker 3: without a trainer. I had accountability. Watch this that turned
[48:03] Speaker 3: into me being controlled by somebody.
[48:07] Speaker 2: Else for an hour and a half every day.
[48:10] Speaker 3: There is nothing that Victor tells me to do that
[48:13] Speaker 3: I want to do.
[48:16] Speaker 2: There has never been one time that he was like,
[48:19] Speaker 2: all right.
[48:21] Speaker 3: Do the burpies and I was like yay that he
[48:25] Speaker 3: was like, all right, twenty pounds more and I was
[48:28] Speaker 3: like amen. Every time my flesh wants to rise up.
[48:34] Speaker 3: But the accountability turned into discipline so much so that
[48:37] Speaker 3: last Sunday, me and Pastor Will work out every Sunday
[48:40] Speaker 3: morning together. And last Sunday morning, early in the morning,
[48:44] Speaker 3: my coach called me and told me he wasn't gonna
[48:46] Speaker 3: be able to be there now there's like three o'clock
[48:48] Speaker 3: in the morning because we work out at five on Sundays.
[48:52] Speaker 2: I almost called Will and told him coach is sick.
[49:00] Speaker 2: The jim at my house all the way still work.
[49:07] Speaker 2: But it was a test.
[49:10] Speaker 3: Had the accountability turned into discipline, and I said, Will,
[49:15] Speaker 3: I can train us if you down and I was
[49:17] Speaker 3: playing that.
[49:19] Speaker 2: He said, you unqualified men of God. But he was like, I'm.
[49:24] Speaker 3: Down, And for an hour and a half at five
[49:27] Speaker 3: am with no trainer, my discipline turned into my desire.
[49:36] Speaker 2: So this is where we go on the last one.
[49:40] Speaker 2: I don't know when it happens. I'm not sure of
[49:43] Speaker 2: the magical moment that God says, oh, the switch flipped.
[49:51] Speaker 3: But if you are accountable long enough and the things
[49:53] Speaker 3: that the spirit tells you to do, it will become
[49:56] Speaker 3: a discipline long enough that at some point.
[50:01] Speaker 2: It becomes your desire. And everybody wants to know when
[50:06] Speaker 2: it becomes a desire. I have no clue.
[50:11] Speaker 3: I don't know when you will desire to actually be
[50:15] Speaker 3: content in the season God has.
[50:16] Speaker 2: For you to be in.
[50:18] Speaker 3: But if God is telling you right now to be
[50:20] Speaker 3: accountable with a budget, and he's saying, oh, that means
[50:26] Speaker 3: you're gonna have to be disciplined with how many times.
[50:27] Speaker 2: You uber eat this week? Well, God, I don't want
[50:30] Speaker 2: to leave my house.
[50:31] Speaker 12: You know what to do.
[50:35] Speaker 3: And the truth of the matter is you're tired of
[50:36] Speaker 3: being single, but you don't be nowhere to meet nobody either.
[50:41] Speaker 2: It's all connected. I just want you to know.
[50:43] Speaker 3: Maybe wing stop as yo, I'm trying to make light
[50:50] Speaker 3: of a very large subject.
[50:52] Speaker 2: But I'm saying, maybe God is trying to call you.
[50:54] Speaker 3: To something to give you something else, and at some
[50:58] Speaker 3: point that discipline is going to turn into a desire.
[51:04] Speaker 2: It works the other way too. But I feel like
[51:06] Speaker 2: I've said what God wants me to say today.
[51:09] Speaker 3: Because I'm gonna show you one more scripture and this
[51:12] Speaker 3: thing bless me to the point where it has become
[51:16] Speaker 3: a life scripture for me. Let me just let me
[51:21] Speaker 3: just show them the two examples of the spirit empowered
[51:23] Speaker 3: and the self empower Okay, because somebody just needs to
[51:25] Speaker 3: get this, y'all, give me seven minutes and then.
[51:27] Speaker 2: We're gonna move to our crazy faith offering. Then we're
[51:29] Speaker 2: gonna get out of here. Okay. Is this helping anybody can?
[51:32] Speaker 9: Y'all?
[51:33] Speaker 2: Okay, it's it's a lot to unpack, but I feel
[51:36] Speaker 2: I feel very called to finish this.
[51:38] Speaker 3: Okay, So listen. Self control? Does everybody see it? Self control?
[51:45] Speaker 3: This is what I'm gonna say. A self control can
[51:48] Speaker 3: be a spirit empowered life of faith.
[51:55] Speaker 2: When you are self.
[51:56] Speaker 3: Controlled, that is spirit empowered life of faith.
[52:01] Speaker 2: Or you can have self control.
[52:05] Speaker 3: Which put it up, it would be a sin empowered
[52:10] Speaker 3: life of the flesh.
[52:15] Speaker 2: You choose.
[52:17] Speaker 3: Either every day, I'm gonna wake up and do the
[52:19] Speaker 3: things that let me live a spirit empowered life of faith,
[52:23] Speaker 3: so the spirit controls me, or I'm gonna live a
[52:26] Speaker 3: sin empowered life of flesh and sin controls me.
[52:31] Speaker 2: This is why it's important what you listen to.
[52:37] Speaker 3: Why I'm in the gym, I mean, I gotta turn up,
[52:39] Speaker 3: I gotta put There are certain stuff. The reason why
[52:41] Speaker 3: TC has started making music and we just didn't do
[52:43] Speaker 3: worship music is My plan is in the next five
[52:46] Speaker 3: years to give people so much good content that does
[52:49] Speaker 3: not lack excellence and creativity, but still can replace some
[52:54] Speaker 3: of the things that lead.
[52:55] Speaker 2: Me to sin.
[52:57] Speaker 3: There is only so many times you can listen to
[52:59] Speaker 3: lay your body down before you are no longer vertical.
[53:10] Speaker 3: I don't care, and I'm using just example. There's only
[53:14] Speaker 3: so many times that you can listen to certain sonics
[53:18] Speaker 3: with words and you and and you're putting your spirit
[53:24] Speaker 3: man in unnecessary fights.
[53:29] Speaker 2: You're going through real stuff. But you're like, I'm gonna
[53:31] Speaker 2: clear my head. And once you put in your head in,
[53:36] Speaker 2: what is it leading you to why you so angry
[53:40] Speaker 2: but you put a knock if you bump.
[53:41] Speaker 14: Every Why are you ready to fight everybody?
[53:52] Speaker 2: Y'all hear you every time? Where are you feeding?
[54:04] Speaker 3: If you're depressed? I understand it. I have empathy for you.
[54:12] Speaker 3: I know it's a hole that you feel like you
[54:14] Speaker 3: can't get out of. But if you continue to put
[54:18] Speaker 3: in sad songs, if you continue.
[54:25] Speaker 2: To stroke, that does disase.
[54:32] Speaker 3: The reason I love this artist is because they just
[54:34] Speaker 3: I identify with them.
[54:36] Speaker 2: Do you want to keep identifying with it? Is this
[54:39] Speaker 2: where you want to stay? I mean, I get that
[54:40] Speaker 2: it feels good to be known and noticed.
[54:42] Speaker 3: But and sometimes we'll settle for a connection which turns
[54:49] Speaker 3: into compromise. Some of the things that comfort us are
[54:56] Speaker 3: connections that end up compromising us. And God is telling
[54:59] Speaker 3: you it's time for you to get up. It's time
[55:01] Speaker 3: for you to be everything. I'm sending people in and
[55:03] Speaker 3: every time you get up, just a little bit you
[55:06] Speaker 3: bring down. Because an artist has creatively personified your season,
[55:18] Speaker 3: I'm just asking everybody. I'm telling you there's a better
[55:23] Speaker 3: choice to live a spirit and powered life of faith.
[55:31] Speaker 3: That's self control. So break it down practically past the
[55:36] Speaker 3: mic today when I'm giving in this crazy faith offer.
[55:41] Speaker 3: This was not a decision that was informed by my
[55:44] Speaker 3: sin nature. Matter of fact, my sin nature been trying
[55:47] Speaker 3: to tell me, boy, that's the dumbest thing you could do.
[55:51] Speaker 3: You know, it's Christmas time, right, and you know what's
[55:54] Speaker 3: gonna happen next year?
[55:55] Speaker 2: And you do you know what God? What God said
[55:58] Speaker 2: he was gonna do the last time you gave. Have
[56:00] Speaker 2: you seen all of that? Oh? Oh maybe he did?
[56:05] Speaker 2: Maybe maybe maybe I'm the only.
[56:07] Speaker 3: One that feels trepidation sometimes when we step out in faith.
[56:13] Speaker 3: But I bet Peter felt it too when Jesus said
[56:16] Speaker 3: come over, Come over the edge of the boat and
[56:20] Speaker 3: do what nobody else is doing.
[56:24] Speaker 2: If it's you, I don't know. This is running out
[56:29] Speaker 2: here and everything is that.
[56:31] Speaker 3: If it's you tell me to come, he didn't say
[56:37] Speaker 3: it's Jesus.
[56:39] Speaker 2: Son of David.
[56:42] Speaker 3: The Bible records that Jesus gives a one word response
[56:45] Speaker 3: without identifying who he was.
[56:47] Speaker 2: While Peter was.
[56:48] Speaker 3: On a boat with others, they all heard him ask
[56:52] Speaker 3: the question, YEA, if it's you tell me to come,
[56:58] Speaker 3: All Jesus says come. He didn't say Peter, Come, He
[57:07] Speaker 3: said come, which leads me to believe he was talking
[57:09] Speaker 3: to everybody on the boat. He wasn't just talking to Peter,
[57:18] Speaker 3: but Peter was the only one with crazy.
[57:20] Speaker 2: Say y'all are hurt, and he didn't go like gods
[57:29] Speaker 2: didn't y'all hear.
[57:31] Speaker 3: Jesus asked us all to come, like, what are y'all doing? Like,
[57:33] Speaker 3: get up, I'll go if you go, probably trembling. I've
[57:42] Speaker 3: watched somebody drowning this stuff before.
[57:46] Speaker 10: M hm mm hmmm.
[58:01] Speaker 3: I would have tested it, y'all. Ye Jesus, this is
[58:19] Speaker 3: really y'all.
[58:21] Speaker 2: This is really working. This is really working.
[58:29] Speaker 3: This, this, this, this, And Jesus says, why you stop
[58:42] Speaker 3: looking at me? I told you to step out in
[58:49] Speaker 3: crazy faith, and you started looking at your situation.
[58:55] Speaker 2: I told you to step out in crazy faith.
[58:56] Speaker 3: You started looking at your account. I told you to
[59:01] Speaker 3: step out in crazy faith. You start looking at other
[59:03] Speaker 3: people and what they were doing. Why did you stop
[59:05] Speaker 3: looking at.
[59:09] Speaker 2: And He saved them?
[59:11] Speaker 3: He said, when are you gonna get the faith that
[59:13] Speaker 3: I know you have? This is what it looks like
[59:18] Speaker 3: practically to live a spirit empowered life.
[59:25] Speaker 2: Of faith.
[59:27] Speaker 3: I might not have any evidence from anybody else, but
[59:32] Speaker 3: I still have to obey God. I believe that God
[59:37] Speaker 3: is telling many of us in this room an area
[59:41] Speaker 3: that the Holy Spirit needs to be allowed to develop
[59:46] Speaker 3: self control on the inside of us. Can you get
[59:50] Speaker 3: that last scripture on the screen so I don't have
[59:52] Speaker 3: to run up there? That says, let the Holy Spirit,
[59:55] Speaker 3: I'm forgetting the address right now. There's one more scripture,
[59:59] Speaker 3: because this is the key to the whole thing, and
[1:00:01] Speaker 3: then we're gonna give it. We're gonna go home. But
[1:00:03] Speaker 3: I believe this is gonna transform people's entire lives because
[1:00:07] Speaker 3: when I saw this scripture, it changed the way that
[1:00:11] Speaker 3: I found out that I could live a spirit empowered life.
[1:00:14] Speaker 3: Galatians five twenty five. Since we are living by the spirit, everybody,
[1:00:20] Speaker 3: say this next word with me. Let say it with me.
[1:00:25] Speaker 3: Left one more time left. Since we are living by
[1:00:30] Speaker 3: the spirit, say it with me. Let That means somebody
[1:00:35] Speaker 3: has to allow it, since we are not living a
[1:00:41] Speaker 3: life controlled by our sin, and we're gonna live a
[1:00:45] Speaker 3: spirit empowered life.
[1:00:48] Speaker 2: Of faith, since we live about the spirit. That's what
[1:00:50] Speaker 2: it is. He said, Let, which means you have the control.
[1:00:58] Speaker 3: And some of us have not allowed ourselves to follow
[1:01:02] Speaker 3: the spirits leading.
[1:01:05] Speaker 2: Since we are living by the Spirit.
[1:01:07] Speaker 3: Everybody say, let let us follow the spirits leading, oh,
[1:01:12] Speaker 3: in every part of our lives.
[1:01:15] Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you something.
[1:01:17] Speaker 3: That is very exposing to me and the Holy Spirit's relationship.
[1:01:22] Speaker 3: I let the Holy Spirit dress me. This outfit today
[1:01:30] Speaker 3: was not the outfit I wanted to wear. I had
[1:01:34] Speaker 3: another one that was a killer.
[1:01:39] Speaker 2: It would Ooh.
[1:01:44] Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest every time I get on this platform.
[1:01:47] Speaker 3: I asked my wife, and I asked the Holy Spirit
[1:01:52] Speaker 3: what am I supposed to wear? Because when I read
[1:01:55] Speaker 3: the scripture put it back on the screen and see
[1:01:57] Speaker 3: some of y'all think this is two dig But I
[1:01:59] Speaker 3: just want to be honest with you, like of how
[1:02:01] Speaker 3: I actually lived this out. Since we are living by
[1:02:04] Speaker 3: the spirit, let us follow the spirits leading in every
[1:02:11] Speaker 3: part of our lives.
[1:02:15] Speaker 2: I haven't perfected this. I don't. I don't.
[1:02:20] Speaker 3: I forget sometimes. Matter of fact, sometimes I wake up
[1:02:23] Speaker 3: and I let my sinful nature.
[1:02:26] Speaker 2: Control.
[1:02:29] Speaker 3: I'm angry and frustrated all that, But what I'm saying
[1:02:32] Speaker 3: is in every area I can.
[1:02:33] Speaker 2: Remember too, my bad spirit, what am I supposed to
[1:02:40] Speaker 2: do here? Today?
[1:02:43] Speaker 3: I told my daughter Ava, who's that she's leep?
[1:02:48] Speaker 2: I love you?
[1:02:49] Speaker 3: She was laying down, You're like, oh, Daddy brings you Okay, Hello,
[1:02:53] Speaker 3: that's okay.
[1:02:54] Speaker 2: I love you. Eva.
[1:02:56] Speaker 3: She rocks with me almost every Sunday morning from my
[1:02:59] Speaker 3: five am work out.
[1:03:01] Speaker 2: She get up.
[1:03:02] Speaker 3: She loves being with her daddy on Sunday morning and
[1:03:05] Speaker 3: she make me hold her in praise and worship. I
[1:03:07] Speaker 3: only got thirty more days of doing that because she
[1:03:10] Speaker 3: is getting heavy, but I love it. So today I
[1:03:15] Speaker 3: told Ava, I said, today is our crazy faith offering
[1:03:19] Speaker 3: and we're believing God for crazy fruit.
[1:03:22] Speaker 2: And she was like okay.
[1:03:25] Speaker 3: Ava has been carrying around a box of money she
[1:03:28] Speaker 3: got for her birthday.
[1:03:31] Speaker 2: And she is very quick to.
[1:03:33] Speaker 3: Tell anybody how much money she has in cash and
[1:03:36] Speaker 3: how much money she has in Target gift cards. And
[1:03:43] Speaker 3: today I said, hey, baby, you know we give as
[1:03:45] Speaker 3: a family every year, Like, I want you to pray.
[1:03:49] Speaker 2: This is the first year you've had money when it's
[1:03:51] Speaker 2: time to give to God. And her eyes getting big,
[1:03:57] Speaker 2: and I.
[1:03:57] Speaker 3: Said, Ava, I said I want you to pray and
[1:04:02] Speaker 3: asked the Holy Spirit what you're supposed.
[1:04:04] Speaker 2: To give in the offering? Okay? And she was like okay.
[1:04:10] Speaker 2: So then she came to the church. I was getting dressed.
[1:04:14] Speaker 2: She came to the bathroom. She said, she said, hey, Dad.
[1:04:17] Speaker 3: I said, hey, baby, I said, did you pray about
[1:04:20] Speaker 3: what God told you? She's like twenty dollars.
[1:04:27] Speaker 2: I said, oh, you prayed about it.
[1:04:28] Speaker 3: She said no, that's just kind of what I she was,
[1:04:34] Speaker 3: My daughter's gonna tell me the truth. She said, that's
[1:04:37] Speaker 3: what I you know.
[1:04:39] Speaker 2: She just kept me light.
[1:04:44] Speaker 3: And I said, okay, if that's what the Holy Spirit
[1:04:47] Speaker 3: told you to give, I just want.
[1:04:48] Speaker 2: You to be obedient. She said, fifty dollars. I said,
[1:04:55] Speaker 2: what are the fifty dollars? Dad, fifty dollars and she
[1:04:59] Speaker 2: said it would so, I.
[1:05:00] Speaker 3: Said, doing it, I mean, all gentle and quiet and software.
[1:05:04] Speaker 2: She just yelled at me fifty dollars. I said, baby,
[1:05:09] Speaker 2: this is what I said to him.
[1:05:11] Speaker 3: I said, Daddy just wants you to listen to the
[1:05:14] Speaker 3: Holy Spirit and obey, and if he doesn't tell you
[1:05:17] Speaker 3: to give anything, don't give anything. And she got surprised
[1:05:20] Speaker 3: when I said that, because what I'm trying to teach
[1:05:23] Speaker 3: my daughter is that it is a pleasure to be
[1:05:29] Speaker 3: able to hear from the God who created the sun,
[1:05:35] Speaker 3: and the fact that he would.
[1:05:36] Speaker 2: Still talk to his son. I'm privileged that you.
[1:05:42] Speaker 3: Would ask me for anything when the very breath that
[1:05:46] Speaker 3: I breathe in.
[1:05:48] Speaker 2: Is the breath you gave me. That's so I said, baby,
[1:05:54] Speaker 2: just obey God.
[1:05:56] Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you like I told my natural daughter,
[1:06:01] Speaker 3: from now until the end of the year, if God
[1:06:05] Speaker 3: asks you to give something over and beyond your tithes
[1:06:10] Speaker 3: to participate in this season where we believe that God
[1:06:14] Speaker 3: is doing the work, not just on the church and the.
[1:06:16] Speaker 2: People on our hearts.
[1:06:19] Speaker 3: In a season where everybody's thinking about what they're gonna get,
[1:06:23] Speaker 3: We've decided to change the priority of what we're gonna give.
[1:06:28] Speaker 3: And if that means we gotta sacrifice something to obey God,
[1:06:33] Speaker 3: it's worth it. Maybe the key to all of this
[1:06:37] Speaker 3: is self control.
[1:06:39] Speaker 2: Maybe the spirit.
[1:06:41] Speaker 3: Wants to lead us in a way that has nothing
[1:06:44] Speaker 3: to do with an amount, but he's like, well, they
[1:06:48] Speaker 3: even listen to me.
[1:06:50] Speaker 2: Last story.
[1:06:51] Speaker 3: And the reason I share these things is because I'm
[1:06:53] Speaker 3: really walking this out with you. This is not past
[1:06:56] Speaker 3: the mic paid in the shade, got a seventeen million
[1:06:59] Speaker 3: dollar contra track to pass the transformation.
[1:07:01] Speaker 2: This is not I can not have an NBA contract.
[1:07:05] Speaker 3: This is me believing God every day to do what
[1:07:09] Speaker 3: He's called us to do. There was one time when
[1:07:13] Speaker 3: we first got in this building that the Holy Spirit
[1:07:16] Speaker 3: challenged us to give the largest amount that we had
[1:07:18] Speaker 3: ever given. And I remember coming off this stage and
[1:07:21] Speaker 3: coming right over here and giving that amount.
[1:07:24] Speaker 2: I looked at Natalie.
[1:07:25] Speaker 3: Tears were in my eyes, not because I was hurting,
[1:07:29] Speaker 3: because I was scared.
[1:07:32] Speaker 2: I'm not even playing life.
[1:07:35] Speaker 3: Lord, either you gonna come through or we're gonna be
[1:07:39] Speaker 3: living at this church. Sometimes you just gotta be honest
[1:07:44] Speaker 3: with God. Scott came and got me. I don't remember
[1:07:50] Speaker 3: if you remember this.
[1:07:51] Speaker 2: Scott came and got me and said, there is.
[1:07:53] Speaker 3: This guy that came from Maryland that needs to put
[1:07:56] Speaker 3: something in your hand. I said, oh damn, God bless him.
[1:08:00] Speaker 3: You know people sometimes like God told me to do this.
[1:08:02] Speaker 3: Da dah da da.
[1:08:03] Speaker 2: And he's like, I didn't know if I was gonna.
[1:08:04] Speaker 10: Get to see you.
[1:08:05] Speaker 2: Didn't look unassuming everything.
[1:08:08] Speaker 3: It was literally sixty seconds from the time I put
[1:08:13] Speaker 3: the money in the bucket to the time I met
[1:08:17] Speaker 3: this guy.
[1:08:19] Speaker 2: He said, I don't need anything. I don't want a picture,
[1:08:21] Speaker 2: I don't want nothing. I just God just told me
[1:08:22] Speaker 2: a five year and be obedient. I go to the back.
[1:08:27] Speaker 3: It was to the penny, the exact amount, Maam, I
[1:08:34] Speaker 3: telling the truth. He deposited the check the exact amount that.
[1:08:40] Speaker 2: I gave sixty seconds earlier.
[1:08:46] Speaker 3: I don't want you to clap because I got the amount,
[1:08:48] Speaker 3: because it could have been three dollars. You don't know
[1:08:50] Speaker 3: what I gave. You're assuming it was large. It was
[1:08:54] Speaker 3: large for us.
[1:08:57] Speaker 2: It wasn't the amount. It was because I was obedient.
[1:09:02] Speaker 2: I realized that God had already spoken.
[1:09:08] Speaker 3: He had already spoken to my answer while I was
[1:09:14] Speaker 3: still in trepidation about obeying him, so much so that
[1:09:19] Speaker 3: that man had to buy a plane ticket, get off
[1:09:23] Speaker 3: of work, go to a bank in a different state, draw.
[1:09:27] Speaker 12: Out the butt.
[1:09:28] Speaker 2: He had spoken to the solution.
[1:09:31] Speaker 3: While I still was deliberating about my problem. And I'm
[1:09:37] Speaker 3: dared to think what would have happened if I would
[1:09:41] Speaker 3: have at the last moment like that, we can't do this.
[1:09:47] Speaker 3: It wasn't that the man wouldn't have gave me the money.
[1:09:49] Speaker 3: He probably still would have. I would have missed an
[1:09:52] Speaker 3: opportunity to understand God's faithfulness.
[1:09:57] Speaker 2: What I know now can't know. Nobody take from me
[1:10:02] Speaker 2: the way I give today, the way I obey God
[1:10:05] Speaker 2: today it's from experience.
[1:10:10] Speaker 3: So today, if nobody's ever given you the opportunity to
[1:10:12] Speaker 3: believe God on this law, today's the day.
[1:10:19] Speaker 2: Six hundred thousand dollars six dollars obedience.
[1:10:27] Speaker 3: It's more valuable than the value of the currency. What
[1:10:32] Speaker 3: everybody's stand all over this building today, I want to
[1:10:39] Speaker 3: pray for you. I'm gonna ask the worship team to
[1:10:42] Speaker 3: come up. He listen, We're gonna leave in just the moment.
[1:10:46] Speaker 3: I don't want anybody moving right now.
[1:10:47] Speaker 2: To please not distract anybody unless it's an emergency.
[1:10:50] Speaker 3: We understand emergencies. I just want you to just take
[1:10:53] Speaker 3: this moment. I know we're a little over. Next week
[1:10:56] Speaker 3: will be right right on time. But I just wanted
[1:10:58] Speaker 3: to let you know that this is a special thing
[1:11:00] Speaker 3: and I felt it was worth communicating in this way.
[1:11:05] Speaker 3: Today I'm believing for every family, for every for every person,
[1:11:15] Speaker 3: for every inmate, for every addicted person, for every person
[1:11:21] Speaker 3: that just gave their life back to Christ, for every
[1:11:23] Speaker 3: person that's trying to figure out this journey. Today, I
[1:11:27] Speaker 3: just want to let you know that our God is
[1:11:31] Speaker 3: in the business of.
[1:11:32] Speaker 2: Blessing you beyond what you think is possible. And today
[1:11:38] Speaker 2: I just.
[1:11:39] Speaker 3: Want to pray one simple prayer. Everybody, listen to me.
[1:11:43] Speaker 3: I want to pray one simple prayer for you. Is
[1:11:46] Speaker 3: that in the area of self control, when God asked
[1:11:51] Speaker 3: you to do something, you would be one word obedient.
[1:11:57] Speaker 2: Some of you.
[1:11:57] Speaker 3: He's going to ask you to stop going to that
[1:12:00] Speaker 3: place and you're gonna have to refigure out your life
[1:12:03] Speaker 3: because your life is centered around this place, and you
[1:12:08] Speaker 3: know what's going to lead you into sinful things.
[1:12:10] Speaker 2: And sinful things is not an everyday thing. It's a drift.
[1:12:17] Speaker 3: If you take an anchor off of a boat, you
[1:12:21] Speaker 3: can come back in forty five minutes, and I promise
[1:12:23] Speaker 3: you it won't be in the same location, not because
[1:12:27] Speaker 3: a huge wind came in. It's just a current that
[1:12:32] Speaker 3: allows you to drift to the wrong place. Today we're
[1:12:37] Speaker 3: dropping an anchor on our firm foundation. And if God
[1:12:40] Speaker 3: tells you to do anything, I need to be specific
[1:12:44] Speaker 3: right now.
[1:12:44] Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the offering yet.
[1:12:47] Speaker 3: If he asks you to do anything, if he asks
[1:12:50] Speaker 3: you to give up that fast food, if he asks
[1:12:52] Speaker 3: you to go on a fast, if he asks you
[1:12:55] Speaker 3: to start the Bible study, if he asks you to submit,
[1:12:59] Speaker 3: if he ask you to do anything, you need to
[1:13:04] Speaker 3: make a decision to obey. And when it comes to
[1:13:10] Speaker 3: this crazy fruit offering, if he asks you to do anything,
[1:13:16] Speaker 3: I just.
[1:13:16] Speaker 2: Want you to do one word.
[1:13:17] Speaker 3: What is it okay when you obey God? The consequences
[1:13:25] Speaker 3: of obedience with God. See, everybody thinks consequences is a
[1:13:29] Speaker 3: bad word. Consequences are not a bad word. Where you
[1:13:31] Speaker 3: do the right thing, the.
[1:13:34] Speaker 2: Consequences of obeying God are so amazing.
[1:13:42] Speaker 3: I'm a living testimony to y'all. He don't do all
[1:13:45] Speaker 3: the things you want him to do. He never will.
[1:13:48] Speaker 2: That would make a must and not God.
[1:13:51] Speaker 3: But he does stuff that I don't even think I
[1:13:53] Speaker 3: would even pray for. Today, I'm believing. Write down on
[1:14:01] Speaker 3: these cards, watch this, not just things.
[1:14:05] Speaker 2: Put your things on there. I'm fine with that. But
[1:14:07] Speaker 2: today I'm asking you.
[1:14:09] Speaker 3: Would you add to your crazy faith card online and
[1:14:13] Speaker 3: in the room, would you add the things and the
[1:14:18] Speaker 3: areas you need self control in and see if by
[1:14:22] Speaker 3: this time next year, a boy, this time next year,
[1:14:28] Speaker 3: God hasn't given you more peace where there was grief.
[1:14:33] Speaker 2: God has not actually let your.
[1:14:35] Speaker 3: Words line up with the word instead of your words
[1:14:38] Speaker 3: line up with your experience. Let's use this moment to mature.
[1:14:44] Speaker 3: Can I pray for you? Would you lift your hands
[1:14:45] Speaker 3: all over this place, Father, for every person that is
[1:14:49] Speaker 3: under the sound of my voice in this norm or online,
[1:14:52] Speaker 3: watching on rebroadcasts, or from a penitentiary right now, I'm
[1:14:57] Speaker 3: asking that your Holy Spirit would invade that place, not
[1:15:02] Speaker 3: just the room they're in, but their heart and their
[1:15:04] Speaker 3: mind and their spirit. Today, God, I'm asking that you
[1:15:09] Speaker 3: would be so evident with them, not just in a
[1:15:13] Speaker 3: church service, but you would be evident in every area
[1:15:17] Speaker 3: of their life. And today, after hearing this message, we
[1:15:23] Speaker 3: are deciding to let.
[1:15:27] Speaker 2: We are deciding to let you lead us.
[1:15:34] Speaker 3: Lead us in our marriages, lead us in our finances,
[1:15:38] Speaker 3: lead us on our jobs, lead us in our relationships,
[1:15:41] Speaker 3: and lead us Father, and what we watch and what
[1:15:44] Speaker 3: we listen to and what we wear. Lead us, Holy Spirit,
[1:15:49] Speaker 3: because when you lead us, you lead us.
[1:15:51] Speaker 2: From things to things.
[1:15:55] Speaker 3: You are God that leads us from sin, God into freedom.
[1:16:00] Speaker 3: You're a God that leads us Father from the pain, Father.
[1:16:04] Speaker 2: Into the promise.
[1:16:07] Speaker 3: He're the God that brings us from isolation into family.
[1:16:12] Speaker 3: You are the God that can bring us from a
[1:16:14] Speaker 3: dry place to a place with an abundance of rain. Today,
[1:16:21] Speaker 3: lead us Holy Spirit. I'm asking for every person that
[1:16:26] Speaker 3: needs self control that what they really need is a
[1:16:30] Speaker 3: spirit empowered life of faith. Let them take journey in
[1:16:36] Speaker 3: their faith Father that they will never recover from us
[1:16:41] Speaker 3: like this crazy faith journey you've taken me on. God,
[1:16:44] Speaker 3: I thank you for strengthening.
[1:16:46] Speaker 2: Me to believe you.
[1:16:49] Speaker 3: Today, even as me and my family are going to
[1:16:52] Speaker 3: give God. The only reason I have faith that you
[1:16:54] Speaker 3: can heal any other area in my life is because
[1:16:57] Speaker 3: I've seen you do it before. You are a God
[1:17:01] Speaker 3: that has moved to be four and today God, I
[1:17:08] Speaker 3: thank you that I do not have to wonder if
[1:17:11] Speaker 3: you're still moving. I got proof all around me, seen
[1:17:17] Speaker 3: you move mountains, and today I believe you can do
[1:17:20] Speaker 3: it again.
[1:17:22] Speaker 2: So for anybody that is leaning into fear right.
[1:17:25] Speaker 3: Now, you have not given us a spirit of fear,
[1:17:30] Speaker 3: but one of power, love.
[1:17:33] Speaker 2: And self control. Make our minds sound. Today.
[1:17:40] Speaker 3: We trust you, we believe you, and we thank you
[1:17:45] Speaker 3: that you are a firm foundation.
[1:17:51] Speaker 2: Transform us and Father.
[1:17:54] Speaker 3: For anybody that wants to receive you as Lord and savior,
[1:17:58] Speaker 3: I feel like I need to do it in this moment.
[1:18:02] Speaker 3: There's anybody in here that has been controlled by their sin.
[1:18:05] Speaker 2: Nature. You didn't even have the option to choose freedom.
[1:18:11] Speaker 2: You've just been controlled by sin.
[1:18:12] Speaker 3: Today God is coming to set you free. No longer
[1:18:18] Speaker 3: does that addiction, or that abuse.
[1:18:20] Speaker 2: Or that mishap have to define your life.
[1:18:22] Speaker 3: Today Jesus enters in because of a sacrifice that was made,
[1:18:26] Speaker 3: and if you just receive it, your whole life can
[1:18:29] Speaker 3: be transformed. I need the church to be praying right now.
[1:18:32] Speaker 2: The war that has been going on for your life.
[1:18:34] Speaker 3: The enemy thought he had you, but today Christ.
[1:18:37] Speaker 2: Is intervening.
[1:18:40] Speaker 3: And today you will no longer be come controlled by
[1:18:43] Speaker 3: the sad nature. Today you're making a decision to be
[1:18:45] Speaker 3: controlled by the flesh. Today, if you want to make
[1:18:47] Speaker 3: a decision for Jesus, I just want everybody to pray
[1:18:50] Speaker 3: this prayer with me.
[1:18:52] Speaker 2: I want you to.
[1:18:52] Speaker 3: Say, God, thank you for sending Jesus to interrupt.
[1:19:01] Speaker 2: That was set out for my life. Today. I need
[1:19:05] Speaker 2: you as my Lord and savior.
[1:19:09] Speaker 3: I believe you lived, you die, and you rose again
[1:19:14] Speaker 3: with all power. And today I give you control, Change me,
[1:19:21] Speaker 3: renew me, transform me.
[1:19:24] Speaker 2: I'm yours in Jesus' name.
[1:19:27] Speaker 6: Amen.
[1:19:28] Speaker 3: Can we thank God for every person that made that decision?
[1:19:35] Speaker 2: Glory of God.
[1:19:38] Speaker 3: This is what freedom is about to feel like for you.
[1:19:41] Speaker 2: Listen to me.
[1:19:43] Speaker 3: No longer will you be controlled by your flesh.
[1:19:47] Speaker 2: You will be controlled by the spirit.
[1:19:49] Speaker 3: If you made that decision, I want you to text
[1:19:52] Speaker 3: save to A two A two A two.
[1:19:53] Speaker 2: If you're watching them line, you're.
[1:19:55] Speaker 10: In the room.
[1:19:56] Speaker 2: And now we're going to walk into a moment of faith.
[1:20:01] Speaker 3: Today we can give some of you be like, man,
[1:20:03] Speaker 3: I wasn't gonna do it, but this week, I'm actually
[1:20:05] Speaker 3: gonna go to the bank tomorrow and I'm gonna actually
[1:20:07] Speaker 3: do the thing, and I'm gonna actually Okay, all right, lord,
[1:20:10] Speaker 3: I heard you.
[1:20:11] Speaker 2: Dang, you had to be so loud. We could have
[1:20:13] Speaker 2: talked about something else, you know. I know.
[1:20:17] Speaker 3: Wednesday night we're gonna be right here giving. Next Sunday
[1:20:21] Speaker 3: the boxes will be out you can give. But right now,
[1:20:25] Speaker 3: this is a sacred moment for me, and I want
[1:20:27] Speaker 3: the team to come. And there's boxes right here, there's
[1:20:31] Speaker 3: boxes in the sides, there's boxes in the back, and today,
[1:20:35] Speaker 3: what do you gotta do some of y'all.
[1:20:36] Speaker 2: God's changing the amount right now. Some of y'all are
[1:20:38] Speaker 2: watching online.
[1:20:39] Speaker 3: And you wrote the check and you already went to
[1:20:42] Speaker 3: the website and typed it in the Holy Spirit.
[1:20:44] Speaker 2: Been talking to you the whole time. Obey God and
[1:20:48] Speaker 2: however you want to come.
[1:20:50] Speaker 3: This is gonna be the time where some of y'all
[1:20:51] Speaker 3: are just gonna worship because God's gonna give you clarity
[1:20:53] Speaker 3: for other things.
[1:20:54] Speaker 2: The biggest thing about this moment is not money, it's obedience.
[1:21:00] Speaker 3: Obey God. Some of you need to write down what
[1:21:01] Speaker 3: He been telling you to write down. That's gonna be
[1:21:04] Speaker 3: more valuable. And I'm so proud of people that are
[1:21:07] Speaker 3: taking the opportunity to start tithing and be consistent, be
[1:21:11] Speaker 3: disciplined with what God has told you to do.
[1:21:16] Speaker 2: Whatever God's telling you. Right now, it's time to move.
[1:21:19] Speaker 3: Father, bless every seed that will be sown. And I
[1:21:24] Speaker 3: thank you, Father God, that you would do what your
[1:21:26] Speaker 3: word says. Would you open the windows of heaven and
[1:21:30] Speaker 3: pour out blessing. I didn't say money, I said blessing
[1:21:34] Speaker 3: that they would not have room enough to receipt. Prove
[1:21:37] Speaker 3: that you God, and.
[1:21:40] Speaker 2: What you can do with a little bit of faith.
[1:21:43] Speaker 3: Would you be the miracle working God that takes mustard
[1:21:47] Speaker 3: seeds at moves mountains. Today we trust you and we
[1:21:52] Speaker 3: believe that crazy fruit can only come from a crazy seed.
[1:21:57] Speaker 2: So today we sow and crazy faith. Have your way
[1:22:02] Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. We agree.
[1:22:04] Speaker 3: Somebody say it been from all over this building as
[1:22:07] Speaker 3: we worship.
[1:22:08] Speaker 2: Let's come and let's give. I have thanks to Yes,
[1:22:15] Speaker 2: you have all that.
[1:22:19] Speaker 6: Mirical signs and blinders fall on me, fall on me.
[1:22:27] Speaker 2: Come on, we say, I have faith to be.
[1:22:31] Speaker 5: Put it all in your hands.
[1:22:35] Speaker 12: Gave me.
[1:22:36] Speaker 5: Come sign I trust is fall as you give me.
[1:22:43] Speaker 12: For you have all.
[1:22:53] Speaker 6: Mile it will fall me ulliam I have. Then when
[1:23:07] Speaker 6: I'm sewing into you, you have on.
[1:23:11] Speaker 5: Me a yeah, they will.
[1:23:16] Speaker 12: Find me I have been mean you have all me s.
[1:23:32] Speaker 5: This will b.
[1:23:35] Speaker 12: Full.
[1:23:37] Speaker 6: I have.
[1:23:41] Speaker 12: Gee as you have all.
[1:23:46] Speaker 6: Mirco si they will find on me.
[1:23:57] Speaker 12: You mean you have all you.
[1:24:02] Speaker 5: Never inside.
[1:24:05] Speaker 2: Size, you will pull me.
[1:24:16] Speaker 6: Album you really go inside cost size.
[1:24:24] Speaker 12: It's fine'll keeping.
[1:24:31] Speaker 10: It's you mean if you are the signs, you.
[1:24:50] Speaker 13: Have a.
[1:24:54] Speaker 5: P go so.
[1:24:56] Speaker 10: Cost signs. It's bad.
[1:25:01] Speaker 12: Follow me. They will call me fin coody fray.
[1:25:32] Speaker 5: With me.
[1:25:37] Speaker 6: That's the thing I called solid the ether focus my will.
[1:25:46] Speaker 6: That's the thing I called solos.
[1:25:55] Speaker 5: On the days of the I with the das of
[1:26:13] Speaker 5: the pas of.
[1:26:15] Speaker 3: My will.
[1:26:17] Speaker 6: Will then the odds of.
[1:26:51] Speaker 5: The days.
[1:27:00] Speaker 6: The game. You're working on something, you sing to it.
[1:27:15] Speaker 5: It is a shop. I see shop on the days of.
[1:27:34] Speaker 3: The games.
[1:27:39] Speaker 6: Be a you as in hin a ray ships for
[1:27:45] Speaker 6: the your top heading and your che chin.
[1:27:50] Speaker 5: Can you che ps p? Is it call it for?
[1:27:57] Speaker 5: You have this time?
[1:28:06] Speaker 12: This way happen this way? Can you come?
[1:28:17] Speaker 5: You come?
[1:28:19] Speaker 6: You met? I see he is away her.
[1:28:27] Speaker 5: Praise why pas Molly.
[1:28:31] Speaker 6: Le shall Folly were still hoddy.
[1:28:36] Speaker 5: The snow fighting. He's my.
[1:28:40] Speaker 10: Gets my fu gets.
[1:28:45] Speaker 5: Selling seeing him move you move them out now, baby,
[1:28:53] Speaker 5: I see you do. It made a win, but that
[1:28:58] Speaker 5: was snowing. I see you do it, said to see
[1:29:04] Speaker 5: you move the bile, Oh yeah, I see it.
[1:29:11] Speaker 10: Till you joy.
[1:29:14] Speaker 5: There's no yeah, yeah, that's your big ros said, I
[1:29:20] Speaker 5: see you see mon.
[1:29:23] Speaker 12: Pounds of me.
[1:29:25] Speaker 6: I see you do you may joy when there was nobody.
[1:29:35] Speaker 10: I see you do.
[1:29:36] Speaker 5: I see till I see you you pot down, Holly,
[1:29:43] Speaker 5: I see you do.
[1:29:44] Speaker 6: See take that away twitters and my dad, I see.
[1:29:56] Speaker 2: I see you go.
[1:29:58] Speaker 6: Sound you see dosssss fussing genus des boss's colsman.
[1:31:00] Speaker 5: What s your fad that you keself?
[1:31:26] Speaker 6: Stays attitude.
[1:32:04] Speaker 5: Attitude so letting him work.
[1:32:15] Speaker 6: Relive your face, watch your work, get for your good,
[1:32:28] Speaker 6: for those head.
[1:32:29] Speaker 2: I believe it's trust.
[1:32:30] Speaker 5: He's not done with what he startity. No, he's not
[1:32:39] Speaker 5: done till less good.
[1:32:45] Speaker 6: Come on speaking over your little turney, let him turn
[1:32:50] Speaker 6: your face. I'm gonna watch him do it working for you.
[1:33:00] Speaker 6: He's not done with any style. He's not done until
[1:33:11] Speaker 6: he's good.
[1:33:13] Speaker 10: He's not done.
[1:33:16] Speaker 2: So we say hello to our fruit.
[1:33:18] Speaker 6: We say, how pleas hello, joy, Hello, hello, strength, Hello,
[1:33:31] Speaker 6: how you if.
[1:33:33] Speaker 2: You serve the Lord of the harvest.
[1:33:35] Speaker 5: Lifted up, come saying hello hello hello, straight hell yeah.
[1:33:48] Speaker 6: Right before we get out of here, come on, we
[1:33:51] Speaker 6: lift it up in faith, we say this court's not
[1:33:56] Speaker 6: my future.
[1:33:58] Speaker 12: You are.
[1:34:00] Speaker 5: You know, I'm WoT say sick. This is not you
[1:34:03] Speaker 5: see Jesus not nice. You based not by house rays yes,
[1:34:14] Speaker 5: and you are ways called beati.
[1:34:20] Speaker 10: And this time I know you know.
[1:34:23] Speaker 5: Last time I can tell you sez he's.
[1:34:35] Speaker 6: Ss is not on the strange play stops.
[1:34:48] Speaker 12: Sheeezes s shesus.
[1:34:52] Speaker 6: To joy stop you joy, joy coming, joying coming.
[1:35:38] Speaker 9: God.
[1:35:38] Speaker 2: We thank you that you are our future, the Lord.
[1:35:42] Speaker 9: What we see here on this earth, the situations we
[1:35:44] Speaker 9: may find ourselves in is not the end of our story,
[1:35:48] Speaker 9: but it is ultimately you and for that we're grateful.
[1:35:51] Speaker 9: I want to take a moment to close our service.
[1:35:53] Speaker 9: I know we've got a bunch of people who are
[1:35:55] Speaker 9: still watching online.
[1:35:56] Speaker 2: I just want to say thank you for joining us
[1:35:58] Speaker 2: for service today.
[1:35:59] Speaker 9: And I want to encourage Pastor Michael said it, but
[1:36:01] Speaker 9: this is just the start of this season.
[1:36:03] Speaker 11: Some of you.
[1:36:03] Speaker 2: God is gonna continue to speak to you. We'll still
[1:36:06] Speaker 2: have opportunities for you to give. You can go online
[1:36:08] Speaker 2: and give, and I want to encourage you to just
[1:36:11] Speaker 2: do exactly what Pastor we said, be obedient and what
[1:36:14] Speaker 2: God would have.
[1:36:15] Speaker 6: You to give.
[1:36:15] Speaker 2: I'm gonna take them away to pray for us as
[1:36:16] Speaker 2: we close our service.
[1:36:17] Speaker 9: God, I thank you for every gift that was given
[1:36:20] Speaker 9: today and that will be given.
[1:36:22] Speaker 2: I thank you that you see the heart, you see
[1:36:24] Speaker 2: the sacrifice.
[1:36:24] Speaker 5: I thank you Lord.
[1:36:25] Speaker 9: I pray against any remorse or any guilt walking out
[1:36:29] Speaker 9: of here, any lies that the enemy would try to
[1:36:31] Speaker 9: send if you shouldn't have done that, or look what
[1:36:33] Speaker 9: went wrong. No, God, I think you there will be
[1:36:35] Speaker 9: joy and peace as we walk out of here. I
[1:36:38] Speaker 9: thank you, Lord Jesus that the seed that has sown today.
[1:36:40] Speaker 9: Lord God, may we see a return Lord and ways
[1:36:43] Speaker 9: that we can't even imagine.
[1:36:45] Speaker 2: In peace and joy, in contentment, in confidence.
[1:36:48] Speaker 9: God, I thank you that what happens today we will
[1:36:51] Speaker 9: see the fruit of in our life. But I thank
[1:36:53] Speaker 9: you for every person who gave their life to Christ
[1:36:55] Speaker 9: today that it will be a fresh start. And I
[1:36:57] Speaker 9: thank you Lord, I pray over this holiday season or
[1:37:00] Speaker 9: that grief would not be the portion, but it would
[1:37:02] Speaker 9: be joy.
[1:37:03] Speaker 13: Lo.
[1:37:03] Speaker 2: We give you all the praise, all the glory and
[1:37:05] Speaker 2: all the honors of Jesus that we pray. And everybody said,
[1:37:08] Speaker 2: come on, everybody saying, hey, listen, we love you so much.
[1:37:12] Speaker 3: Thank you for being here.
[1:37:13] Speaker 2: Go out and live a transformed life. We'll see you guys.
[1:37:21] Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us today.
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