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Unknown

Amen, before we get started, I want to say happy birthday to my mom again for her 80th birthday. It was really good. And we took some pictures yesterday and there was a picture that she had in her room. She has in her room of me, Karen and me past the Karen and my two older sisters, Maria.

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Unknown

You guys have met her today. And Nancy and this one picture she has it there. And so and then the picture, I think Karen had to be maybe five. So I was maybe six, seven, eight something like that. We were six, nine. And then, you know, it was just many years ago. And so we tried to reenact the picture and stay in the same places.

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Unknown

However, you know, I'm a little bit taller than I was when I was ten South Korean. So we all tried to redo the picture again, but it didn't fit the exact same way. But we got pretty close. We got pretty close. So we took an updated picture of the old picture, and this is probably the first time I had all my sisters together, maybe in ten years, I think the year so.

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Unknown

So it was a great time having everybody together. And then as I passed the brain, they said, now are the kids came and grandkids were losing their mind everywhere and hero was there. And the hero is two years old. He is he's an only child. He's two years old. And he has all the toys in this game to himself every day, four days a week.

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Unknown

So he does not know what it means to share anything with anybody. Everything is his, including what is yours. And he made it known for the whole 4 hours he was there yesterday. So it was a very interesting evening, but we had a great time. It was a really, really good time. So happy birthday, mom, once again. All right, let's pray, Father God, to give you a glowing item.

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Unknown

Praise for today's message. Father, I ask for your wisdom, your insight, your leading, your direction and your purpose and what we're going to share and talk about today. We give you glory and honored praise in Jesus name. Amen. All right. So all week, probably for really for the past month, but really this week, I have been wrestling on this this idea of how to explain more of the kingdom of heaven.

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Unknown

And in the background behind understanding that is me and John was your as you know, John has helped me tremendously with the sermons. And a lot of what we're teaching have been wrestling this this quantum physics idea of something called zero point energy or the zero point zone or zero point theory. And and in quantum physics, it is the place of everything and nothing at the same time.

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Unknown

Okay. And this completely invisible but a quantum the quantum physics. There is more power in this zero point energy than anything in the world. And so as we begin to dove into understanding the Word of God, we've come to the understanding that physics is catching up with the Bible and explaining things of the Bible. And so as me and John, to begin to start talking about future sermons, and that's I got into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Unknown

We started talking about the zero point theory and how to explain it. And over and over again, we have come to a place to where we don't understand how to explain it. And so because we don't know how to explain it, you know, I said, okay, John, we can't explain anything or talk about anything that's not going to be practical to a person's Christian walk and belief.

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Unknown

Okay. And Brandy's my marker with that because, you know, I just share stuff with Brandi. Brandi okay. But what does that have to do in my everyday walk with Christ, which means she didn't get it. So that's what it means. She didn't get it. All right, so then I'll go back and tell John Brandi, don't get it. And I'm pretty sure Rosa didn't get it.

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Unknown

So if our wives don't get it, we don't teach it. Okay? And so that's kind of like our drawing line there. Okay. If we can't explain it, if I don't feel like I can explain it to them and the way that they get it, we can't we can't explain it, but it's very detrimental to kind of where we're going.

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Unknown

And so this week, I'm wrestling with it. I mean, the Holy Spirit, we're going back and forth and I'm asked, Look, can you just explain this thing to me? And he's giving me these explanations. I don't understand, so I don't get it. So then John sends me an email and he sees me. Ima says, I'm still working on the Genesis sermon and trying to figure out how we can explain the zero point theory in a practical way.

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Unknown

And my response to him was was I've been trying to figure it out too, and I'm glad I'm not the only one stuck, because if he's stuck, that really means I get off the hook because he's I mean, he so we're trying to get there. Okay. But we're going to open up with second Corinthians first and we're going to slowly move into some of this.

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Unknown

So that way when we get to full manifestation of understanding now the whole point of understanding the kingdom and even when we're talking about backed by physics, is this it says this thing a verse 16. Therefore, we do not lose heart, though apparently we are wasting away. Yeah. Inwardly we're being renewed day by day for a light. A momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

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Unknown

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen say not seen, okay, not on what is seen, but the unseen. Since what is seen is temporary, but when it's unseen is eternal. So our whole focus needs to be on what is the unseen, for that is eternal. That's the thing that that lasts forever. Remember I said we always talk about how in the spiritual realm or in faith, there is no time.

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Unknown

But the Holy Spirit changed that and said, No, there's more than enough time. We call it eternity. And the unseen comes from the eternal. All right. Now, as a believer, to access the things that are unseen always comes by faith. It doesn't come by what we know or we currently know, understand. It always means we it always is accessed by faith.

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Unknown

And even as I started looking at, okay, what they're calling zero point energy or vacuum energy, all of that is potential energy that's just resting. But it needs and tension or a movement to activate it. Now we understand that is faith. And when we became believers, the rest of our life now has to be moved or created or accessed by faith, meaning we're taking unseen things, unseen knowledge, unseen wisdom, unseen miracles.

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Unknown

And now we're accessing those things by faith and seeing them manifest in our life. That is what it means to be a believer. When you get a word and you see that word manifested in your life. When we're praying for healing and we see healings happen and it's manifested in our life when we're praying for jobs or situations to work out in our favor.

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Unknown

And we see those things we access them by faith and we see those things moved and manifested in our life. And then the other thing, which is kind of the hardest part and pass the part hit on this a little bit is where we have things that we've already started or we already created and now we have to move those things into the realm of faith.

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Unknown

And we do this very good. We go. We go like what? Give it to God, right? We say that, well, you just need to give that over to the Lord. We just need to give that over to God. You know, all the boys were at the House and Superdome was there yesterday. And I remember Super Duper. He stayed with us daily on it.

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Unknown

Super did stay with us for six months after he was born. And so for six months after the Superdome was born, he was with us. And then we had to turn him over to his parents. Now, the day we had, they left, right, they left. Super Superdome is with his mother and his father, the people that bore him, however, my wife said to me, Why did you let those people take my grandson now?

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Unknown

Now she says that she referred to them like they were some strangers that showed up to the house, asked for him, and I said, There he is. Take a peek. I mean, that's not how it happened and that's not now, mind you, it's a 1130. We're in the bed, I'm going to sleep. And she says to me, Why would you let these people take him away?

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Unknown

I said, It's his mother and his father. What do you mean? These people used to? You still let them take him? You still let them? Like I'm supposed to stand up to them and tell them, No, you can't take your child. And why would I say that? These three I just got rid of my kids. I'm not trying to volunteer to get more.

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Unknown

So but anyway, and I'm and this is what I said. I said, baby, listen, we just got to turn it over to God. Yeah, you just. We just got to let it go. And that she then take that answer very. She didn't appreciate that answer at all because we had this conversation for the rest of the week all.

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Unknown

And her biggest thing was, well, when they take him away and he's gone so long, is he good? Because Brandy has this this relationship with her grandparents. They hung the moon in the stars, her grandparents. She adores her grandparents and wants her grandchildren. They feel the same way about her. And so she was scared that if they if if the parents took their children away, that they would not be the same way with her.

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Unknown

Well, lo and behold, all these grandpa, all these grand boys think they gma, not their grandparents, by the way, that GMA hung the moon and the stars and Superman lives with her. That's how they feel. And so I told her, Well, listen, we got to give it to God. All those of us who have children, especially when they became adults, know that exact feeling.

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Unknown

You just got to take what is precious and yours and do what you got to give it to God. And a lot of times we have lifestyles and things in our life that we have to do what we got to give it to God, we have to give our relationships to God. We have to give our careers to God.

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Unknown

We have to give our children to God. Now, this this is the balance of being in faith and being in the believer, because all of this that we're talking about is not seen. Same means I know it, I understand it, I comprehend it. I can do it on my own. I can handle it on my own. Faith requires you.

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Unknown

You don't see it. You don't understand it, it don't make sense, and you can't do it on your own. Now that what I just said, don't make no sense. But usually faith is on the edge of Don't make no sense. And so that is where that is not now. Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself a little, but all of that is the relationship with the Kingdom of God.

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Unknown

Everything I just said. Now we define the Kingdom of God. From Matthew 1619, you can put that up. Matthew 1619 says this I give you the keys to the kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on Earth by means to bind up wounds on Earth, we'll be bound in heaven. Whatever you lose on Earth will be loosed in heaven.

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Unknown

Then leave that up for me, because this is telling us that the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven is responsive. That means it only responds to your response and it's only going to move or respond to your depth of it. Or how deep a hole, how profound you think it is. If you if you look at the kingdom of Heaven in the things of God as minor and small, then guess what?

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Unknown

They're going to be in your life, minor and small, if you look at the things in the kingdom on that. Now, first off, listen, I didn't say religion, I didn't say church. I said the kingdom of heaven in the Kingdom of God, because that supersedes religion in the church. So if you look at those things as profound and deep and rich and important, then guess what?

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Unknown

They're going to be in your life profound and deep and rich and important. So it's never going to move to you outside of an equal measure of you moving to it. That is, I'm a tagged on on Facebook. It's never going to move to you outside of an equal measure that you're moving to with. Okay, it's always going to be responsive.

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Unknown

Now, it doesn't change the love of God. And that's why a lot of times we get confused because the love of God and then the actions of the Kingdom of Heaven do not correspond with each other. God loves you as much as He loves you beyond eternity. He loves you beyond anything in the world. But your favor and access to him is always going to be a measure to the importance that you give him, how you value the things of the kingdom.

00:13:34:03 - 00:13:58:24

Unknown

It's going to determine what you get from it, what you draw from it, how you understand from a work hard, deep one is because you have a pastor who likes to go deep. He doesn't like to just look and read, but he's trying to find the hidden deep, deep, deep, deep, deep truth of the Word of God, because there's a profound this and there's a depth that's inside of it.

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Unknown

And because I have the ability and the opportunity to be able to question things that other pastors or other previous pastors may not have had. Me and my mom talk about this a lot because I come home that she just turned 80. She just turned 80. But she listens to my sermons and still grows. Has been pastoring Pastor been pastor for 30 years but yes there her son comes along to Chicago and this is what she says.

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Unknown

I've never heard of talk like that. But you're right, we never saw the scriptures that way. But you're right. And I always, always give respect because I say this, Mama, the reason I can ask those questions is because y'all asked them first and y'all built it on something else. And God gave me this, and this was in this place with you guys is the only place I was talking to her the other day and I said, You know what?

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Unknown

I've got a lot of friends who have churches and I've got a lot of friends who don't conferences and teachings. Nobody asked me to come speak at the church as a nobody. And one day that really bothered me. It really did. I'm like, Dude, I've known you for 15 years. You ain't asked me once you came and talk of my church, but like you even asked me to come and speak at your church.

00:15:13:05 - 00:15:31:13

Unknown

I've known you for ten years. You ain't asked me to come and speak at church. I hang out with y'all at breakfast and nobody asks me. I'm going, what's wrong with me that don't nobody want me to come speak at their church? And one day I was in my little pity party about it. And I said, Lord, why have I not been able to go speak at these people's church?

00:15:31:15 - 00:15:49:28

Unknown

And this is what he told me. He said, Tommy, I do not need you going to somebody else's church, dropping a few things. I gave you a mess up the whole congregation. Some of the things I showed you, you can't just go to a church and share it and walk away. Then they think their pastor don't know what he's talking about.

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Unknown

If you come and say some of the stuff you say, he says. So the only place that I can have you, at least on what you're doing is on Sundays in your own church. He said, I have you staying here to protect them from you because you try to go to too. Is it because you're trying that you're wanting to go so deep in that deep is so important to you?

00:16:12:23 - 00:16:38:04

Unknown

And that is why you get so much from the kingdom. It's responsive to who we are. Now, if we go to Luke 638 Excuse me, we're going to start in verse 37. Luke 637 Now it's a very interesting scripture that I have read many times, but based upon what we just the beginning, we just had, we're going to have a different understanding of this scripture.

00:16:38:07 - 00:16:57:28

Unknown

Okay. So Luke 637 says, do not judge A You will not be judged, do not condemn, you will not be condemn, forgive, and you will be forgiven, give and that will be given to you. A good measure pressed down, shaking together and running over will be put into your lap for with the measure you use, it will be measure to you.

00:16:57:28 - 00:17:16:11

Unknown

Now go back to the beginning, verse 37. Now I have always read Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn me, you will not be condemned. Forgive me, you will be forgiven. Okay, got that three things. And then we going to give and it will be given to you in the first 38 to the first 38 and then it goes giving it would be given to you.

00:17:16:11 - 00:17:39:16

Unknown

Now, every teaching and every reading separated verse 37 in verse 38. And when we go to a good measure, pressed down, shaking again, then running over will be pointing to your lap. We always referred that to the giving part. We all always said That's that's Jesse. So he talked about judging, he talked about condemning, he talked about forgiving.

00:17:39:16 - 00:17:51:27

Unknown

And now he's going to tell us about giving. And then we'll begin to do the giving, the good measure, press that shaking together and running over will be putting you left for with the measure you use, it will be measure to you. And that's I begin to read this, the Holy Spirit and I need you to read that again.

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Unknown

He had me read it ten times like I'm like, okay, I guess I didn't get it and I didn't get it until the 10th time. That's what he told me ten times. And so the 10th time he said, no, go back to verse 37. We're going to talk, go back and forth quite a bit. Verse 37 says, Do not judge in the way of not do not judge, and you will not be just do not condemn it.

00:18:09:02 - 00:18:29:13

Unknown

You will not be condemned. Forgiving it will be forgiving you. Verse 38 Giving and it will be giving you. Now all of this together a good measure pressed down, shaking together, running over will be pointed to your left to the measure you use, it will be measured to you. So to the measure we use in judging, it will be just back to us.

00:18:30:19 - 00:19:17:13

Unknown

The measure we using candle timing, it would be giving back to us. The measure we use in forgiving it would be giving back to us the measure we use in giving it will be given back to us. So remember I talked about the king because the Kingdom of God is what response if it's responsive now that were let's see that were measure very interesting Greek word and it's really a measurement properly it's to measure the actual measurement but figure two lovely what it's saying is this is the basis for determining what is enough or not enough or what is fair and not fair.

00:19:18:13 - 00:19:59:18

Unknown

Now I have grown up with it's not fair for 20 years with my children. I heard it's not fair. That's not fair. And even as adults, a lot of times we run into the that's not fair. What's fair and to measure is to decide what's fair. It's also a controlling basis by which something is determined as accept, doable or unacceptable, in particular referring to the Lord Himself as being the only ultimate measurement of truth.

00:20:00:17 - 00:20:37:11

Unknown

So when it talks about for the measure, we use the same measurement we use for determining what's fair and not fair, what's acceptable and not acceptable. It's what's going to be measured against us for what is fair and not fair, what is acceptable and not acceptable. See, that's why he says don't judge, because to the same measure we judge, it's going to be judged back to us.

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Unknown

We can't judge next week, we're going to talk about what it means to condemn. But today we're going to talk about judgment in a very particular way, because last week we talked about things that could be blocking our prayers. So it's very possible to be praying one thing, but really you're believing something else. And the kingdom only responds to, well, I say faith.

00:21:04:01 - 00:21:27:05

Unknown

So you can be saying one thing, but you're believing something else. And a lot of times are believing can be held up by a judgment. We have something that we have determined, well, this is fair and this is not fair, and this here is right and this is wrong. And we've made all these judgments and then we're confessing things.

00:21:27:05 - 00:21:54:20

Unknown

But the kingdom is saying, Yeah, I know what you're saying, but because you have a judgment, I can't bring you what you're praying for because you've already judged and you've already determined something. All right. Let me not get too far ahead. All right. So last week we talked about forgiveness. This week, we're going to talk about judging now the word judge actually means to decide this, whether in law, core or privately.

00:21:54:20 - 00:22:35:29

Unknown

Sometimes it's emphasized with the notion to decide what is good, properly, separate, to distinguished, to come to a choice, either positive or to give the verdict. So when we make a judgment of any kind, we're declaring this is what the verdict is. You guys have all seen Judge Judy and she is in control of her court. And when she gives the verdict, it ain't there's no argument.

00:22:35:29 - 00:22:57:27

Unknown

And when somebody tries to argue, she argues back. She would shut them down. She would tell them be quiet. She would let them know their place in her court. She's in control of her courtroom. And this is the verdict done. Finished. It's over. You can go out and do your little interview afterwards. You can have your pity party about the verdict.

00:22:57:28 - 00:23:24:02

Unknown

But what she says in her courtroom goes, no argument. And if you try to argue, she will rebut it and let you know she's in control of what's happening in that place. Now, all of us are the judge Judy's of our life. And when situations of any kind arise, we have an opportunity to do what I said last week.

00:23:24:02 - 00:23:49:09

Unknown

It's all good and walk away, render no opinion. But most of the time we're going to give our own verdict. We're going to judge it. And based upon that judgment. Now, here's the thing that that's very important about being a lawyer. Whenever there's a verdict that comes down and the judge says it's final, they can use that for anything else now.

00:23:49:23 - 00:24:13:11

Unknown

So now when you make a judgment in your life, everything in your life now has to be viewed through that picture. What no matter what it is, everything has to be viewed to that picture. Okay. If you grew up and your parents told you you never going to amount to nothing again, never going to be nothing. Okay, now they put that curse on you.

00:24:13:11 - 00:24:30:19

Unknown

You have to receive that curse on you. And when you receive that curse, you have judged it as true for you. So then you go through your life. Doing what? Not never being nothing. Never amounting to nothing. I'm never going to be nothing Never going to mountain nothing I'm never going to be nothing I'm never going to amount to nothing.

00:24:31:00 - 00:24:55:05

Unknown

There are people who have had multi-million dollar success that have committed suicide. There are people who we know have been stars who you would think, why did that? Why did they do that? Why would they ever hurt themselves? Why would they hang themselves? Why would they shoot themselves? And then you going to have a deep depression that was there since childhood.

00:24:56:14 - 00:25:24:20

Unknown

So even though they were living their life and they spend what we would call a successful manner, but within them there was a judgment so deep that it cost them their life. That's a no, that's a very extreme way of of of dealing with judgment. But all of us may have these little things within us that we've either accepted, received or declared on our own.

00:25:25:27 - 00:25:40:19

Unknown

This is the way things are. This is how it's going to be. This is what the future is going to look like. This is the way it's going to be. This is the way it should be. This is how it's happening. This is the way it's going to happen. And when we do that, then when we go to God in prayer, God has to go.

00:25:40:19 - 00:25:58:16

Unknown

Okay, but you already said this is the way it's going to happen. This is the way it's going to be. This is the way it's always going to be. This is the way it should be. And so I can't do anything outside of that, because what did I say at the beginning? God, always the kingdom of heaven always operates out of what we don't know, what we can't see, what we can understand, what we can't comprehend.

00:25:58:16 - 00:26:30:27

Unknown

It makes no sense. And yet still, if we have these judgments in our life, we can't get past that. We can't. We can't. The kingdom can't. Excuse me. The kingdom can't get us past that. He can't get us past what we see, what we believe, what we're holding on to, what's keeping us from manifesting first Corinthians four Starting a verse for 1415 I think yeah, I gave you guys that it says my conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent.

00:26:30:27 - 00:26:57:22

Unknown

This is Paul talking. It is the Lord who what judge is me. It's the Lord who judges me, therefore judge nothing before it's appointed time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness will expose the motives of the heart, and that at that time each will receive their praise from God. Keep verse four up there for me.

00:26:58:07 - 00:27:24:03

Unknown

All right, the appointed time. Now he can excuse me first. Fine. He can be talking about this two things. He can be talking about the point of time when Christ comes in the at the end of the age. Okay, so you can be talking about that. But there's also a time of confirmation of faith. Confirmation of the faith is I've been standing on it, I've been believing it.

00:27:24:20 - 00:27:48:01

Unknown

And now the Lord has shown up. There's an appointed time where what we believe will be exposed to us. I'm not worried about the exposing to others. We always have this thing because we've seen it in the in the in time movies. Will all of your message shown on the screen for all people to see what you then did.

00:27:48:17 - 00:28:15:11

Unknown

You know I'm not out of I don't know about any of that, but I do know that there are moments in my life, too, where I've been believing something, and then there's a confirmation of faith. And at that time, the Holy Spirit exposes the motive of my heart. We can judge anything passes. I don't even I don't even judge myself.

00:28:16:11 - 00:28:37:06

Unknown

Now, you can go to the extreme because there are people go to the extreme with the word to say, okay, so you're telling me that we don't, you know, judge other people, even if they're doing evil or wrong or what's bad? We can't judge that. And no, no, no. He's talking about the motive of the person's heart. We don't know a person's heart motive.

00:28:37:11 - 00:29:04:11

Unknown

We can look at their actions and their actions bring us to a conclusion. But it may not tell us what the motive of their heart was. And seeing if you catch somebody in the middle of process, it can look like failure if you catch anything. Look, the cross looked like failure. Two for three days. It looked like failure to the disciples for three days.

00:29:04:11 - 00:29:28:24

Unknown

It looked like complete failure when he was being crucified. It looked like failure when the Romans put him on that cross. It looked like failure when they took him down. And he was his body was dead. It looked like failure. Everything this man has told us for three years, it don't look like it's going to happen. We are still in bondage.

00:29:28:27 - 00:29:58:19

Unknown

There's nothing that has changed. And he's died. He's in the tomb. The next day they wake up. He still there? The next day he's still there. So it looked like complete failure on the third day. It took three days before it's. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It's not failure. It this wasn't failure. This was the process he was talking about.

00:29:59:12 - 00:30:17:09

Unknown

A lot of times you can catch us. If you if you catch people in the middle, it will look like complete failure. If you catch him in the process of something, it can look like failure if you catch him right during the start. If you look at somebody building a house, there's pictures all over all over the Internet.

00:30:17:09 - 00:30:43:16

Unknown

We look at a mansion, a beautiful, beautiful mansion, but then you see them at the beginning stages. It looks terrible. The ground is all tore the the windows. There's concrete, a mess everywhere, the scaffolding all over the place, there's no paint. It just looks utterly disgusting. And then you give it three months and oh, my gosh, would you look at this if someone were to walk up on that house after the first month ago?

00:30:43:16 - 00:31:20:06

Unknown

You know what? This looks absolutely crazy. They just judged the process. It's crazy. This looks absolutely like nonsense. They just judge that. If you would have caught me and passed the brandy 15 years ago. Ten years ago. Seven years ago. They passed it last week. No, look, if you were to call us in the process, many people have seen this in the process and go in the process.

00:31:20:06 - 00:31:35:10

Unknown

I don't understand how these folks are going to be together another year. I don't understand is people going to be able to do nothing together. But we was in the process, my sister Maria, she asked me yesterday, So how long have you been married? And I signed her and told her 27 years. And I said she can bring this.

00:31:35:10 - 00:31:59:05

Unknown

What does she want to know how long we married? And I told her, 27 years. Bring Stella a long time. So I did I tell a long time. That's a long, long time. Long time. 27 years. Been together almost 30. It's been to get now we've been together 30 years, been married 27 years. If you were to catch us anywhere during that 30 years, it's the process.

00:32:00:10 - 00:32:32:13

Unknown

I'm in process. Now, here's the interesting thing about this. This is cool about judging, okay? You can be and you can. Okay, okay. Two things. Give it to me. You can call your mess and claim it in faith as process you. You can call yo mess and now you can call it you know what? Now I'm in the process.

00:32:33:21 - 00:32:59:10

Unknown

No, no, no. You know what this seem like? Absolute nonsense. Crazy. Lord, I'm in process. This ain't nonsense. I'm in the process. I'm up my mansion. Looks like absolute disarray. But it's going to be a mansion when I get done. I'm this is this is process is what this is. I'm not going to judge it as stupid, insane.

00:32:59:13 - 00:33:14:06

Unknown

I don't know what I'm doing. I'm sick and tired. I'm not going to cry. Look, we call every we judge everything sick and tired. We throw that out real quick. I'm not going to I'm not going to just call it sick and tired. I'm not going to call it mess. I'm not going to call it nonsense. I'm not going to call it stupidity.

00:33:14:09 - 00:33:30:05

Unknown

I'm not going to call it failure. I'm not going to call it. I give up. I'm not going to call it. I'm done with I'm the guy. I'm not going to call it any of that stuff. I'm not going to judge it and give it that verdict. What if anything, I'm just going to begin to call it process.

00:33:30:05 - 00:33:51:13

Unknown

I'm just in the process. I'm just growing. I'm just learning. I'm still developing. I'm still trying to figure it out. I'm still getting wisdom in knowledge. I'm still dealing with myself. I'm still trying to figure out what I need to do. I don't even know my own emotions anymore. I'm changing, I'm growing, I'm developing, I'm becoming. I'm looking at something a new I'm a fresh look.

00:33:51:13 - 00:34:11:12

Unknown

The teaching in my life is because I'm changing. That's why things look crazy. It's because I'm changing. And because of all of that, I'm drawing on what the unseen. And I'm pulling things from the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of God now has to respond. And according to what I just said, so because I put all this effort in, I call it process.

00:34:11:18 - 00:34:51:14

Unknown

The kingdom has a responsibility now to transfer from the kingdom. What healing wisdom. Knowledge, understanding and manifest for me. My mansion, that that's what it means to respond to the kingdom. So the kingdom come respond to me. I'm not going to judge you. I'm not going to name it anything. I'm not going to call it fail you. I told you super do for 2 hours was trying to steal everybody's stuff.

00:34:53:02 - 00:35:16:02

Unknown

But he ain't going to stay that way. He walked up to my son in law, my son Jeremy, and took his plate of food. And what do we all do? We looked at Jeremy. You're just got to let that boy take your food. Now, we took the plate away from from hero said no. But guess what? He's in the process.

00:35:16:29 - 00:35:39:23

Unknown

Why would we yell at him, spank him, put him in timeout? Now, if he's, you know, 18 years old doing that, then we got to issue, you know, you know, an 18 you can punch a boy in the face. So. Okay, I take that back. I know. I take it back. I know. I know Brandy's mom is going to get on me and tell me, you know, son, there's people out there who may think I said 18, though.

00:35:40:05 - 00:36:01:00

Unknown

I said 18. I didn't say a chance. I said it 18 and 18. You could punch a boy in the face. All right. But he's in the process. So we respect it as he's in the process of growing. He's in the process. He he's he's trying to talk. He's in the process of talking. We don't tell him. Don't say nothing to Teague.

00:36:01:03 - 00:36:26:01

Unknown

Say a full word. We actually talk back to him. It's gibberish. He thinks he's off to him. He's communicating to us. We don't know what he's saying, but we'll talk back to him and guess we will. We'll talk back to him in his same language. Well, you know, we'll do all those things because he's in the process. We don't judge him as a failure.

00:36:26:17 - 00:36:47:03

Unknown

We recognize what he's in the process of growth. He's still a stuff from the other kids because he's in the process of growth. He's working on talking, but he's in the process of growth. He's crying and falling out on the floor. We just look at him, some get up, he's amazing. He'll fall out and cry with no tears.

00:36:47:03 - 00:37:12:28

Unknown

And then you tell him, Get out of here, get up and walk away. You gonna tell him that's fake, you know, because he's in the process. He's in the process. We don't judge what it is we call it. It's the process. Me and Brandy was in the process. We doing some of the process, but we still it's the process.

00:37:13:07 - 00:37:40:24

Unknown

Look, it's what it is. And because we understand forgiveness. What do we say? It's all good. It's all good. We're in the process. This ain't the end. It ain't over. This ain't done cos they're working on us cos they've got a lot to do with us. But I'm going to stay in the place of faith so that the healing can come and I can have the fuel and the energy to stay in the process.

00:37:40:24 - 00:38:06:28

Unknown

I don't judge and I can judge. I'm not going to put a label on what I said, man. I'm not going to put a label on what I see right now. This a great picture. All of us have been in the process of growth. How would you feel in the middle of that growth if somebody wrote on a label like to give us in school and put an eye in the middle that and put on it, put that on.

00:38:06:28 - 00:38:43:29

Unknown

You lost. Well, no, no, no, no. I'm still not right now. You lost. So that's what I'm going to label you lost. Oh, I'm going. Oh, oh, discouraged. Bam. That's you. You're discouraged. No, I'm still, you know, I'm working on. Yeah, I'm feeling a little down the day but not you're discouraged. That's what you are. You know, we talk about bringing things to light, manifesting things from the supernatural, bringing things from the spirits around.

00:38:44:07 - 00:39:02:18

Unknown

We talk about that, and I think I said this last week, there are times when I'm going, okay, Lord, I'm confessing, I'm believing, I'm declaring, I'm, you know, I'm calling forth and I'm not seeing things happen as fast as I want them to see happen. But see if if he manifest the good things immediately, then guess what? He has the manifest.

00:39:02:18 - 00:39:27:27

Unknown

Also when I get that label discovers he got a gold k, you are discouraged. So we're going to manifest discouragement right now. Lord, I'm glad you're patient, Lord. I'm glad that you don't do you don't take what I label myself when I had a bad day. I'm glad you're merciful with that. I'm glad you're patient with me because that's what he puts on you.

00:39:27:27 - 00:40:03:11

Unknown

You know what? This is good. This is good because this is what he's judged you as. Love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, gentleness, meekness, self-control. He called those the fruits of his spirit. And he said, That's what you got in you in abundance. You've got an abundance of love. Love is patient, love is high. It does not envy, does not boast.

00:40:03:26 - 00:40:43:00

Unknown

It is not proud, it is not rude. It keeps record of wrong. And that's the hardest one for me. It keeps no record of wrongs. God is love. Wow, God is love. Thank you, Lord, that you don't catch us when we've labeled ourself. Thank you, Lord, that you have not labeled as failure and thank you that we don't have to submit to somebody else's label of who we are in our life.

00:40:43:00 - 00:41:20:23

Unknown

We can all we we have the ability to only accept what he has given us, to accept and believe. We don't judge. No, it's very difficult to not judge things, especially when the things of the world. Okay. Now, here's the interesting thing about the things of the world. The reason we don't acquaint ourselves with the things of the world is because they are things of the world.

00:41:22:10 - 00:41:54:19

Unknown

So when we the thing we get in trouble with is when we try to apply Christian values to worldliness, it messes us up because there are those are things of the world. So you can't take Christian values in. I found this out a very difficult way. I was talking to a guy work. This had to be about 20, 25 years ago and I was at work and the guy won the believer and he let me know he was not a believer, but he knew I was a believer.

00:41:54:24 - 00:42:11:15

Unknown

And so we're working together and he begins to tell me of some trouble he's having. And I'm listening and he's telling me about this troubling, this stuff, this and the other. I'm listening to him. And then I go to say to him, Well, listen, the scripture says graders he then he graders he then you then hear this in the world.

00:42:11:15 - 00:42:38:10

Unknown

I said, Well, graders, he in the Holy Spirit says, Not in him his time. He said, Not in him. He don't believe there is no greater of me in him than he lives in the world. All he got is the world, so he got to figure it out on his own. Shocked me, but it was it brought me to a real reality of what the place of faith really is.

00:42:38:23 - 00:43:07:14

Unknown

You can't take faith and move it into an unbeliever. You can't apply your faith on somebody who does not believe. You can't initiate it. So so systems of the world, things of the world. You can apply faith. You can move faith into them. I know. Listen, we pray for the outcomes of elections all the time, but the people that are put in office are put in office unsaved and unsaved.

00:43:08:13 - 00:43:33:17

Unknown

So it's not appointed by God. That position is appointed by God, but the determination is up to the people who appoint those people. So no matter how hard we try to pray for something, it doesn't change the amount of people that's going to get out there and vote and make something happen. Now, God is always able to redeem situations, but those of us who live by faith always rise, always increase, and always have an end result.

00:43:33:17 - 00:44:05:11

Unknown

So it doesn't matter to us very much. So that's why we can apply things of the world to that lesson. I use this example all the time. I am an Atlanta Falcons fan. Trust me, I know what unanswered prayers mean. I have prayed the outcomes weekly for a season and have not seen my prayers answered. I have prayed during the offseason for changes to come and they do not come in my way in my favor.

00:44:06:02 - 00:44:38:07

Unknown

I pray people to sit down, people to leave, other teams, other teams to move out of my way so that we can get to the place of success that I want. And the Lord has not answered the so I know what that means. You can't apply faith to those things. We, we, we can't. Now what that should do is this and I'm close with this that should do two things for us.

00:44:39:16 - 00:45:04:10

Unknown

One, y'all know me as a pastor of encouragement. So this is always to encourage and never to discourage. We should be leaving here today, looking at the situations of our life in one, either responding to them by faith or moving them into faith. That's what we should be doing. Am I moving this thing and am I giving it to you?

00:45:04:10 - 00:45:26:14

Unknown

God have I'm moving this thing in my submitting it to you, Lord, am I am I giving it to you? And then my bringing it to you in prayer and confession and waiting for your response. And because I'm bringing it to you and because I'm trusting you, I'm believing in you. I'm putting all I have in you and I'm putting my faith in you that the Kingdom of Heaven has to respond in kind.

00:45:27:11 - 00:45:50:28

Unknown

So. So that's the first thing we should be be going. Okay, so let me examine and make sure I'm bringing everything to him by faith. The reason people get caught up on tithes, offerings and financial gifts, but the reason the Holy Spirit has us do that is because once you take that which is consumed your life, you spent the better part of your week, the better part of your day, your education, your skill set, and your mindset.

00:45:51:02 - 00:46:11:21

Unknown

You're going to take it a piece of your whole life. And when you give it to God or you give it in a in a in a responsible way to the kingdom, then the kingdom responds to you the same way. That's all he's trying to do is I need you to move everything you have of you into the Kingdom of God, because now the kingdom has it has nothing to do.

00:46:11:25 - 00:46:41:18

Unknown

Now the kingdom has got it. Now I've seen what you're giving now I've seen what you're doing. Remember I said every week it's a physical manifestation of what you believe, so it brings everything into the light of faith. The second thing is many of us may be in process. I know I am, and don't get stuck and accept the label of failure in process.

00:46:41:18 - 00:47:12:27

Unknown

Don't, don't, don't. Just don't stop. Stay in the process. Keep moving in the process. Keep drawing on the unseen. Allow, allow the process to be the place of growth for you. Just stay there and call it process call. I'm on my way. Somebody I heard this and probably Steve Hind said if you go through hell, keep going. Because on the other side is heaven.

00:47:12:27 - 00:47:34:04

Unknown

If you if you're on the you said, look, I'm on the wrong side, that will get then keep moving to the right side. Don't stay there. Don't call it that. I'm in the process. I'm still growing, I'm still moving, I'm still developing. That's where I am. You know, Hero loves being a singer, too, right? He loves him, too.

00:47:34:14 - 00:47:57:08

Unknown

And he loves the illumination song at the beginning. It's hilarious because he'll get up and sing it. It's the cutest thing in the world. But he loves singing, too. There's a scene in Sing Too, with a little koala bear is talking to. I'm not sure who she is. It's like, is his friend or mentor and he talks about how he's not cut out to do that kind of production.

00:47:58:17 - 00:48:36:17

Unknown

And she says something to him, I call it the first time. And then yesterday when I was cooking, he had the movie on and I heard it again. The second time she said, Well, maybe they're right. Maybe you're just not cut out for this. And something just sang me a song sing right to sing in my heart both times when things get difficult, we have a choice to surrender to the difficulty, improve the difficulty, correct, or to decide to keep moving and prove it wrong.

00:48:36:17 - 00:49:03:23

Unknown

Prove it wrong. You know, I use me and brand is an example a lot because when me and Brandi got married, there were four, I think four other couples around our age that were already married before us. They were all friends of mine. So I got married last out of the group of friends. Out of the whole group of friends.

00:49:04:05 - 00:49:31:25

Unknown

Me and Brandi are the only ones still married. We're the only couple still married. And part of that was for me. I know I heard from God, and I just don't want to do anything outside of the will of God. And I'm doing this the same thing for her. I mean, many people go with Pastor Bradley. She's with you because she loves you and because you're a great husband and you're amazing and handsome and all that is true.

00:49:32:12 - 00:49:59:12

Unknown

All that's true. All that oh, that's true. All right, just let me get it. I'm on tape. All this true. But but the better part of it is because the Holy Spirit talks to her and has told her, no, y'all live together in the same thing for me. I'm not going nowhere. I'm just. Just not going nowhere. We're just going to have to work out our difficulties.

00:49:59:23 - 00:50:18:23

Unknown

We just have to figure out what we doing. But we ain't going nowhere. We just got to work. We just going to have to work this thing out. That's it. And a lot of times in separate rooms and separate corners and separate, we just got to work it out. We just got we just got to figure this thing out.

00:50:19:00 - 00:50:40:16

Unknown

But we both have agreed to figure this thing out. We remain steadfast. We're not just going to quit. We're not just going to give up. We're still in the process of growing. We're still in the process of becoming. I know we could become better. The world community, the church is in the process of growing. I know it's going to become better.

00:50:40:24 - 00:51:01:18

Unknown

All of you in the process of growing, I know all of you are going to become better and know your lives and marriages and situations are going to be transformed and can become better. And if it's good now, it can become even better in the kingdom. I know there's lives waiting to be touched by what we have here in the lives we need to be touched aren't just from me talking, but it's from the lives that you guys have.

00:51:02:01 - 00:51:31:29

Unknown

Y'all are already experiencing people going, what's on you and how can I get what's on you? You're in the process. Don't let judgment, short circuits or process. I think I'm going to name this sermon that on YouTube. Okay, Father God, I give you going on in praise, Lord, Lord, I thank you so much that all the labels that we have put on, all the in our lives are being ripped off right now.

00:51:32:27 - 00:51:57:19

Unknown

I see AIDS going around, but, you know, like the little labels they put on you, they know name tags is what I see. And on there are things like discouragement, failure. I'm never going to amount to something. This isn't going to work. That's never going to happen. All those labels I see, angels going around houses and apartments and ripping them off, just ripping the labels all off that we have written on different things.

00:51:57:19 - 00:52:21:00

Unknown

I see the whole of the angels going down and ripping them off and situations. I see them ripping them off of cubicles, their work. I see them ripping them off the inside of our cars and ripping them off the mirrors. Oh, my Lord, this mirrors full of them. And I just see them ripping them off of just different things, just pulling those labels of discouragement, oppressed failure.

00:52:21:05 - 00:53:12:08

Unknown

Nothing, can't be nothing. Never going to change all those labels he's going through just ripping them down so that now when we walk into our life, it's all clear and clean. I see us fresh and a new. We don't judge no more. We don't judge others. We don't judge ourselves. No more judgment, no more judgment. And all I see is them replacing it with Now grow, now, grow, now, grow, grow, see them drawing little trees and put in psalms.

00:53:12:28 - 00:53:43:12

Unknown

Chapter one The you are like a tree playing up out of rivers of water. You're going to bring forth your fruit and your season, your leaf. Whenever we're there and everything you put your hand to will prosper. Just drawing the tree and putting Psalms chapter one next to it. Get rid of the judgment and receive the refreshing rivers of the Lord.

00:53:43:12 - 00:54:22:17

Unknown

No more judgment. Just grow, just grow, just grow. Lord, I received that picture from my life. Lord, I thank you that we are in the process of growing, that we would not declare a verdict of anything. Lord, that will be careful not to name anything, but we will only call it faith process and growth. Father, we've learned to forgive, and now we know not to judge.

00:54:23:27 - 00:54:45:13

Unknown

Though I hope and pray that we walk out of here feeling lighter than we did when we came in. And we give you glory. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much, Holy Spirit. Father, if there's anyone who's watching who does not know who you are, they don't have a relationship with you. And their hearts are open to receiving a hearing from you.

00:54:45:13 - 00:55:22:27

Unknown

Lord, Father, we celebrate their decision, and if they would reach out to us a deep wildness, that sexy force last prayer. Lord, we would love to pray for them. We love praying for people. We love prayer reports, praise reports, and so that they will reach out to us for prayer. Lord, if any of our members or anyone watching needs prayer, that they would do the same thing so that we can pray for them as we continually pray for those who need healing at the World Community Church and anyone else outside Father, that from your kingdom you will bring healing and that our prayers are not blocked in Jesus name.

00:55:22:27 - 00:55:43:17

Unknown

Laura, we thank you. Thank you. Thank you for father. We thank you for the gifts that come the deep waters community, the church, those who are partnered with us financially. Lord And as you've showed us that our giving is a physical manifestation of our faith, though that would taking a small percentage of our life product and we're giving it to you.

00:55:44:18 - 00:56:07:23

Unknown

And then like kind Lord, you respond you respond to us in words and actions, signs. One does the miracles the father. Most of all, you respond to us from the goodness of who you are, Lord, that we know we can turn and have you there because of this relationship we have with you and words and deeds. So, Father, thank you for them.

00:56:07:23 - 00:56:30:23

Unknown

Thank you for the gifts, bless their homes, bless their families, increase them in areas that they need it the most. Lord, that your abundance may be poured out. We thank you. Thank you. Thank you so very much. Laura and father, we thank you for those who are members of deep waters, those who are visitors and those who are coming.

00:56:31:25 - 00:56:56:03

Unknown

Lord, we continue to pray. The man from the north, south, east and west Father, that families homes will come to the waters committee, the church, and be drawn to the word, the deep depth of your word. We thank you that those who are bound will be loosed and father, those who are tied up will be set free from the message deliberating message at the Workers Community Church.

00:56:56:18 - 00:57:33:29

Unknown

So we thank you so much that they are coming to hear your word, Lord, and that we here are ready to minister to them. We give you going on in praise. We bless you this day a man. Amen. Let's finally close for good. I got 2 minutes next week we're going to talk about do not condemn. And there's actually a sequence that you're going to see that we start off with don't judge, don't condemn, forgive and give in is intentional, that the process is that way.

00:57:33:29 - 00:57:53:03

Unknown

And of course, as always, when we get to the condemn, it's going to be very deep. It's going to be very, very deep. So you guys have a blessed and wonderful afternoon and a blessed and wonderful day. Continue to keep all of us in your prayers, keep the words community, church in your prayers. And as I ask before, continue to pray that those who are seeking will come as much as me and pass the bring their praying.

00:57:53:03 - 00:58:10:15

Unknown

Also. And if you guys need prayer for anything, whether in the room or online, please reach out to us. Please, please, please, please. We love praying for people that we love, pray, support other than that, y'all have a blessed and wonderful afternoon. Love, you guys so, so very much. And I'll see you guys next Sunday. And as always, let's go deep.

00:58:10:19 - 00:58:29:10

Unknown

See? Be blessed every day with you Day with you I'm in heaven with my life.