WEBVTT - The Blessings in a Beat Down, Part 3 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:05.600 I came to tell you. Yes. Everything you go through, 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.240 God has allowed it and he has a higher purpose. Now, 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.000 you may not see it, and you may not sense it, 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:16.000 and you may not like it, but God is sovereign. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:17.960 He going to make sure his purpose is done. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.080 Welcome to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.880 junior senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.479 I'm Steve Hiller. Glad you're with us today, and I 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.720 hope that you've already been encouraged a little bit by 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.640 what we just heard, because that is such an important 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.800 truth for us to internalize, to keep in mind as 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.000 we go through the difficult things of life. God does 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.599 have a higher purpose, and sometimes because of that, he 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.760 does allow us to go through pain and struggles and 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:56.040 suffering and difficulty. And like Pastor Ford just said, you 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.720 may not know it. You may not understand it. You 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.080 may not be able to figure it out. In fact, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.200 you can be pretty miserable in it and even tell 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.000 God that. But because God is sovereign, he is going 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.280 to use that difficulty for his purposes to accomplish what 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.279 he wants. And so as we go through that difficulty, 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.880 understanding the sovereignty of God and trusting in that is 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.120 so important to us. And I think it's also helpful 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.440 for us to look at Jesus. I mean, here we 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:30.000 have God incarnate, God with skin on. And he suffered 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:35.160 and he subjected himself to the father's will, which included 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.479 drinking the cup of going to the cross. And if 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.880 Jesus had to walk through that, if he had to 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.479 go through suffering, why would it be surprising to us 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.600 that we need to go through suffering as well? You 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.800 may have heard Pastor Ford say this before. There are 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.280 some things that you learn in the dark that you 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.080 just don't learn in the light. So sometimes in a sovereignty, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.120 God allows us to go through that darkness. Yes. Well, 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.520 that's what we're looking at in today's broadcast. So if 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.760 you can, I hope you'll open your Bible and join 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.239 us in Isaiah chapter 50 as we continue the message, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.799 the blessings in a beat down. Here is Pastor Ford. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:19.000 I came to tell you. Yes, everything you go through, 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.120 God has allowed it and he has a higher purpose. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.840 Now you may not see it, and you may not 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.840 sense it, and you may not like it, but God 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.400 is sovereign. He going to make sure his purpose is done. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:33.960 I think I told you this once before. I'll just 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.120 repeat myself for those who haven't heard it. I remember 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:43.560 growing up we'd have chicken, rice, peas, carrot and corn 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.880 and that would be dinner. And even with ten kids, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.480 we'd have stuff left over because mama always made sure 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.680 everybody was full and we'd have stuff left over. You know, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:03:00.720 we have next day chicken, rice, peas, corn and carrots. 0:03:00.790 --> 0:03:05.310 But guess what? They weren't individually on our plate, Reverend Strother. 0:03:05.350 --> 0:03:09.669 Like they were the day before. They're in a casserole 0:03:09.790 --> 0:03:13.750 with some kind of sauce on it. And we would say, mama, 0:03:13.750 --> 0:03:16.270 what is this? And she wouldn't say, this is the 0:03:16.270 --> 0:03:19.750 leftover food from yesterday. You know, she'd say, this is 0:03:19.750 --> 0:03:27.150 Chicken Supreme. This is chicken a la king. And I 0:03:27.150 --> 0:03:29.070 would tell my brothers and sisters I was the oldest. 0:03:29.070 --> 0:03:32.910 I'd say, this ain't nothing but leftovers from yesterday. Now 0:03:32.910 --> 0:03:34.910 I say it under my breath so she wouldn't hear me. 0:03:35.190 --> 0:03:38.790 But God is like my mama. You wonder how in 0:03:38.790 --> 0:03:42.470 the world all this thing, this thing, this leftover mess 0:03:42.470 --> 0:03:45.990 in my life. Uh, somebody that messed over me, uh, 0:03:45.990 --> 0:03:49.510 somebody that hated on me. Somebody I done went through sickness. 0:03:49.510 --> 0:03:52.550 I done went through pain. This happened and that happened. 0:03:52.550 --> 0:03:54.910 And God says, let me get a hold of it. 0:03:54.950 --> 0:03:58.630 I'll work it together. I'll take everything that's left over 0:03:58.630 --> 0:04:01.230 in your life. Put it together, serve it up and 0:04:01.230 --> 0:04:03.869 give it to you. As supreme, give it to you 0:04:03.910 --> 0:04:07.870 as Allah, King. Why, God? Because all things work together 0:04:07.870 --> 0:04:11.390 for good to those who love the Lord and those 0:04:11.390 --> 0:04:14.750 who are the called according. I'm going to make this 0:04:14.750 --> 0:04:20.910 work for you. Don't worry about what they did to you, 0:04:21.230 --> 0:04:26.030 because I'm working for you. Because no weapon formed against 0:04:26.029 --> 0:04:33.710 you shall prosper. It ain't going to work. If I 0:04:33.710 --> 0:04:37.510 can sing, I'd break out into it. No weapon formed 0:04:37.510 --> 0:04:40.870 against you. But. But I don't sing. I teach the Bible. 0:04:40.870 --> 0:04:42.550 You know what the word form means? Come on, Dave, 0:04:42.589 --> 0:04:47.390 help me. What's the word form mean, Yasar? It's the 0:04:47.390 --> 0:04:53.270 same word God used when he's talking about making a woman. Yasar. 0:04:55.029 --> 0:05:00.190 It literally means to shape with a purpose. See what 0:05:00.190 --> 0:05:05.230 he says. No weapon that they have shaped and purposed 0:05:05.230 --> 0:05:09.110 against you is going to prosper. Now, he didn't say 0:05:09.350 --> 0:05:12.589 that they weren't be able to start it. He said, 0:05:12.589 --> 0:05:17.910 I ain't going to let them finish it. Mhm. Yeah. 0:05:18.150 --> 0:05:22.190 It's amazing. It's amazing. It is now. Now get this, 0:05:22.190 --> 0:05:24.390 get this. You got to see what he's saying. Uh, 0:05:24.390 --> 0:05:27.710 follow along with me. Now that I should know how 0:05:27.710 --> 0:05:29.990 to speak a word in season to him that is weary, 0:05:29.990 --> 0:05:31.670 let me just. Bottom line it can I. Bottom line. 0:05:31.710 --> 0:05:34.150 Say bottom line, pastor, for it. Because you got three 0:05:34.150 --> 0:05:35.350 more points and we want to get out of here. 0:05:35.350 --> 0:05:37.990 We won't stay in here all day. Here's the bottom line. 0:05:38.190 --> 0:05:41.870 What's he saying? Jesus said I learned and the things 0:05:41.870 --> 0:05:45.190 I learned. I communicated that to other. Come on, help 0:05:45.190 --> 0:05:47.270 me preach this so I can move on. Look at 0:05:47.270 --> 0:05:52.349 your neighbor and say, neighbor, your ministry should come from 0:05:52.350 --> 0:05:59.750 your misery. Huh? He has ministry and he's learned. No, no, no, 0:05:59.750 --> 0:06:01.070 I got a bottom line. I. I got a bottom 0:06:01.070 --> 0:06:02.550 line because I got to go ahead. I got to 0:06:02.550 --> 0:06:04.350 drop these other three and just get out of here. 0:06:04.350 --> 0:06:08.270 But here's what he's saying. You got pregnant out of wedlock. 0:06:08.310 --> 0:06:10.510 You ought to be the last one. Hating on some 0:06:10.510 --> 0:06:14.310 young girl who who got herself pregnant. No, you ought 0:06:14.310 --> 0:06:17.510 to be running to her and saying, girlfriend. It happened 0:06:17.510 --> 0:06:19.590 to me too. And and yeah, I was stuck on 0:06:19.589 --> 0:06:23.350 stupid at one time and. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but listen, listen, listen. 0:06:23.350 --> 0:06:27.190 God is able to sustain you. I got my education. 0:06:27.190 --> 0:06:30.070 I got me a job. I take care of my children. 0:06:30.070 --> 0:06:32.670 I take care of myself. I don't need a man 0:06:32.710 --> 0:06:35.669 do anything for me. I got the man doing everything 0:06:35.670 --> 0:06:38.469 for me. So, girl, you just lift up your head. 0:06:38.510 --> 0:06:41.350 God can forgive you. You move on. Don't let your 0:06:41.350 --> 0:06:43.870 haters pull you down. Don't let your haters chase you 0:06:43.870 --> 0:06:46.669 out of church. Don't you let your haters talk down 0:06:46.670 --> 0:06:48.990 to you. And when they come to you, don't hold 0:06:48.990 --> 0:06:51.390 your head down. Lift your head up. Look him in 0:06:51.390 --> 0:06:54.070 the eye and say yeah and you ain't never made 0:06:54.070 --> 0:07:00.750 a mistake. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah I've repented of that. I've 0:07:00.750 --> 0:07:03.510 asked God to forgive me, but I see. I see 0:07:03.510 --> 0:07:09.110 one thing. I can't be messing around with you because 0:07:09.310 --> 0:07:12.870 you're too busy worried about where I've been instead of 0:07:12.870 --> 0:07:21.270 where I'm going. Amen. That's it. Amen. And so he says, yeah, 0:07:21.310 --> 0:07:25.430 your ministry should come out of your misery. Yeah. Here 0:07:25.430 --> 0:07:28.270 it is. Here's third one. Sovereignty of God over my listening. 0:07:28.270 --> 0:07:30.710 Listen to what he says now. Now, you know, you know, 0:07:30.710 --> 0:07:33.950 I like exposition, but I'm I'm not going to execute this. Listen, 0:07:33.950 --> 0:07:38.750 it says he says, uh, verse four, be he waketh 0:07:38.910 --> 0:07:42.310 morning by morning, he waketh my ear to hear as 0:07:42.310 --> 0:07:45.190 the learned. The Lord opened my ear, and I was 0:07:45.190 --> 0:07:50.510 not rebellious, neither turned away back. Bottom line, Jesus saying, 0:07:50.510 --> 0:07:55.430 I listened to everything God told me. Yes, everything. Everything 0:07:55.750 --> 0:07:58.950 that God told him. And so he said. Lo is 0:07:58.950 --> 0:08:01.470 written in the volume of the book I come to 0:08:01.510 --> 0:08:06.990 do thy will, O God. Man. If there's ever a 0:08:06.990 --> 0:08:10.830 time when we need to learn how to listen, uh, 0:08:10.870 --> 0:08:12.310 let me let me just do. I'm gonna see how 0:08:12.310 --> 0:08:14.950 many remember. But but listen to this. Uh, I want 0:08:14.950 --> 0:08:17.150 you to tell me, uh, have you ever heard of 0:08:17.150 --> 0:08:19.429 this person here? Have you ever heard of this person? 0:08:19.470 --> 0:08:24.150 Let me see. Have you ever heard of Shammua? How 0:08:24.150 --> 0:08:26.990 many heard of Shammua in the Bible? Oh, nobody. Okay. 0:08:27.230 --> 0:08:31.030 How many have heard of Shuafat? Shuafat? Anybody? Oh, nobody 0:08:31.030 --> 0:08:37.550 heard of Shuafat? Okay, how about, uh. Uh. Igor? Igor. Igor. 0:08:37.590 --> 0:08:40.950 Anybody never heard of him? How about, uh, Paul? T 0:08:40.990 --> 0:08:46.750 p a l t I. Anybody? Anybody. Okay. Uh, how about, uh. Gideon. Gideon. 0:08:46.790 --> 0:08:50.949 Anybody heard of Gideon? How about Gadi? Gadi? Anybody ever 0:08:50.950 --> 0:08:55.310 heard of JD? How about Amiel? Am I? Anybody ever 0:08:55.309 --> 0:08:59.470 heard of Amiel? How about Seth? Uh, s e t 0:08:59.590 --> 0:09:02.939 h u r. anybody ever heard of them? How about Nobby? 0:09:03.860 --> 0:09:10.980 How about Gale? Gale? Oh, you never heard of them? 0:09:11.140 --> 0:09:16.980 How about Joshua? Yeah. How about Caleb? Let me tell 0:09:16.980 --> 0:09:21.300 you why. By reading this verse in numbers 1422. Why? 0:09:21.300 --> 0:09:24.860 You never heard of those other ones? Because the ten 0:09:24.860 --> 0:09:28.700 men that I named, he says, because all those men 0:09:28.740 --> 0:09:32.100 which have seen my glory and my miracles, which I 0:09:32.100 --> 0:09:35.220 did in Egypt and in the wilderness, have tempted me 0:09:35.220 --> 0:09:39.780 now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice. 0:09:40.860 --> 0:09:44.940 Those are the ten of the 12 guys who went 0:09:44.940 --> 0:09:47.980 into the land and saw that it was a land 0:09:47.980 --> 0:09:51.780 like God promised, but they came back and they did 0:09:51.780 --> 0:09:55.300 not listen to the report of the Lord. They didn't listen. 0:09:55.340 --> 0:09:59.179 Who shall believe the report of the Lord? And so 0:09:59.179 --> 0:10:01.740 God says, listen, I told you it was a land 0:10:01.740 --> 0:10:03.900 that flows with milk and honey. I told you there 0:10:03.900 --> 0:10:06.620 were giants. But I also told you I will fight 0:10:06.620 --> 0:10:09.140 your battles. And that's what you should have came back 0:10:09.140 --> 0:10:11.740 and said. And they came back and said, we are 0:10:11.780 --> 0:10:14.660 grasshoppers and they are giants. He told you that? 0:10:16.820 --> 0:10:19.780 You're listening to Treasure Truth with Pastor Ford. A message 0:10:19.780 --> 0:10:21.980 called The Blessings in a Beat Down. And we're going 0:10:22.020 --> 0:10:24.540 to get back to this teaching in just one moment. 0:10:24.580 --> 0:10:26.540 You know, maybe as you're listening to this broadcast, a 0:10:26.540 --> 0:10:29.500 question comes to mind about something you've heard Pastor Ford say, 0:10:29.540 --> 0:10:32.740 or how we apply this and live out the Christian life. 0:10:32.740 --> 0:10:35.620 We can always contact us through the website and ask 0:10:35.620 --> 0:10:38.820 your question to Pastor Ford. Just come to Treasure Truth 0:10:38.820 --> 0:10:42.340 Radio org and click on that contact link. We'd love 0:10:42.340 --> 0:10:45.459 to know what difference this teaching is making in your life. 0:10:45.460 --> 0:10:47.540 And if you have a question, go ahead and ask that. 0:10:47.580 --> 0:10:51.460 Who knows, we might even answer that on a future broadcast. Again, 0:10:51.460 --> 0:10:54.300 it's the contact link when you come to treasure Truth Radio. 0:10:55.580 --> 0:10:57.620 Once again, here is Pastor Ford. 0:10:58.540 --> 0:11:02.220 Okay. Listen, are you talking about a time where we 0:11:02.260 --> 0:11:04.820 we don't listen to God and in the church listen 0:11:04.820 --> 0:11:08.340 to this. I think this epitomizes the fact that people 0:11:08.340 --> 0:11:12.420 don't listen. The paradox of our time in history is 0:11:12.420 --> 0:11:18.940 that we build taller buildings, but shorter tempers, wider freeways, 0:11:19.100 --> 0:11:24.380 but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less. We 0:11:24.380 --> 0:11:28.660 buy more but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and 0:11:28.660 --> 0:11:34.500 smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, 0:11:34.500 --> 0:11:40.420 but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, 0:11:40.460 --> 0:11:46.340 yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink 0:11:46.340 --> 0:11:50.940 too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, 0:11:50.940 --> 0:11:54.460 drive too fast. Get too angry. Stay up too late. 0:11:54.460 --> 0:11:57.500 Get up too tired. Read too little, watch TV too 0:11:57.500 --> 0:12:02.819 much and pray too seldom. we have multiplied our possessions 0:12:02.820 --> 0:12:07.620 but reduced our values. We talk too much. We love 0:12:07.620 --> 0:12:11.780 too seldom, and we hate too often. He says we've 0:12:11.780 --> 0:12:14.260 learned how to make a living, but we haven't learned 0:12:14.260 --> 0:12:17.459 how to make a life. We've added years to life, 0:12:17.460 --> 0:12:20.220 but not life to years. We've been all the way 0:12:20.220 --> 0:12:23.140 to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the 0:12:23.140 --> 0:12:27.420 street to help a neighbor. We conquered outer space, but 0:12:27.420 --> 0:12:30.939 not our inner space. We've done larger things, but not 0:12:30.940 --> 0:12:34.740 better things. We've cleaned up the air, but we polluted 0:12:34.740 --> 0:12:39.420 our soul. We conquered the atom, but not our prejudices. 0:12:39.700 --> 0:12:43.059 We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but 0:12:43.059 --> 0:12:46.500 accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. 0:12:46.540 --> 0:12:49.740 We build more computers to hold more information, to produce 0:12:49.740 --> 0:12:52.740 more copies than ever. But we communicate with each other 0:12:52.740 --> 0:12:54.740 less and less. I'm in the car with two of 0:12:54.740 --> 0:12:58.100 my grandchildren and they're texting. I said, who are y'all 0:12:58.100 --> 0:13:05.020 texting each other? Why are you texting each other? Because 0:13:05.540 --> 0:13:09.180 we don't want you to hear what we're saying. So 0:13:09.179 --> 0:13:10.780 I stopped the car and pulled over and said, give 0:13:10.820 --> 0:13:15.700 me them phones. I want to see what they were texting. Yeah. 0:13:15.740 --> 0:13:17.660 And so let me finish it. So he said, this 0:13:17.660 --> 0:13:21.540 is a time of fast foods and slow digestion. Big 0:13:21.540 --> 0:13:26.220 men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These 0:13:26.220 --> 0:13:30.060 are the days of two incomes, but more divorce, fancier houses, 0:13:30.059 --> 0:13:33.540 but broken homes. These are the days of quick trips. 0:13:33.540 --> 0:13:39.179 Disposable diapers, throw away morality, one night stands, overweight bodies 0:13:39.179 --> 0:13:42.620 and pills that do everything from cheer you to quiet you, 0:13:42.620 --> 0:13:46.100 to kill you. It's a time when there is much 0:13:46.100 --> 0:13:50.819 in the show window and nothing in the stock room. Alright. 0:13:51.500 --> 0:13:54.459 That's good. Here's the last two. Take these down if 0:13:54.500 --> 0:13:57.820 you're taking notes. Notice and this is the central part. 0:13:57.860 --> 0:14:00.220 So take notes and say oh, you preach that before, 0:14:00.420 --> 0:14:02.460 and sometimes it's just like I go back to it 0:14:02.460 --> 0:14:05.380 because I haven't done this justice. You know me, it's 0:14:05.380 --> 0:14:08.380 like every word been screaming, say something about me now. 0:14:08.420 --> 0:14:09.220 Say something about me. 0:14:09.220 --> 0:14:12.340 And I've been skipping over stuff. But here it is 0:14:12.340 --> 0:14:16.500 the sovereignty of God in our lashings. Listen to this. 0:14:16.780 --> 0:14:19.620 It says I gave my back to the smiters and 0:14:19.620 --> 0:14:22.100 my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. I 0:14:22.140 --> 0:14:26.940 hid not my face from shame and spitting man. This 0:14:26.940 --> 0:14:30.500 is what he quoted in Matthew 26 while he's on 0:14:30.500 --> 0:14:34.100 the cross. And I wish I could talk about each 0:14:34.100 --> 0:14:36.540 one of them. But what did he do? He told us, 0:14:36.580 --> 0:14:38.420 turn the other cheek. And you know what? We feel 0:14:38.420 --> 0:14:40.380 like they slapped me on one cheek. I want to 0:14:40.380 --> 0:14:43.780 turn the other theirs. And Jesus said, I turned my cheek. 0:14:43.780 --> 0:14:47.060 And then in that day, a beard was a man's glory. 0:14:47.060 --> 0:14:50.140 And he says he plucked out his beard. Plucked out 0:14:50.140 --> 0:14:53.300 his beard. What's the point? Here's the point that Jesus 0:14:53.340 --> 0:14:57.820 is saying, I know that what I'm going through is 0:14:57.820 --> 0:15:00.810 in the will of God. So what I'm going to 0:15:00.810 --> 0:15:05.250 do is I'm not going to seek vengeance. I'm going 0:15:05.290 --> 0:15:09.330 to seek acceptance. So what did he do? If you 0:15:09.330 --> 0:15:12.450 break it down, you'll see in these two verses there's 0:15:12.450 --> 0:15:16.810 purpose and perseverance. A lot of people got purpose, but 0:15:16.810 --> 0:15:20.330 they don't have perseverance. You don't want to go through anything. 0:15:20.410 --> 0:15:22.690 There are people. And I'm glad I don't know. There 0:15:22.730 --> 0:15:25.410 are people who. You just ran into a problem at 0:15:25.410 --> 0:15:27.970 the other church. There was somebody that was ignorant and 0:15:27.970 --> 0:15:31.370 rude with a toxic personality. And instead of you dealing 0:15:31.370 --> 0:15:35.970 with them and facing them and confronting them, you said, 0:15:35.970 --> 0:15:37.690 Imma go to another church. I ain't got to put 0:15:37.690 --> 0:15:40.330 up with this. But guess what? When you come here 0:15:40.330 --> 0:15:44.330 after running there, you going to meet somebody just like 0:15:44.530 --> 0:15:48.850 them and you going to keep running until you get 0:15:48.850 --> 0:15:52.650 up in somebody's face and say, hold on a minute, homie. 0:15:52.890 --> 0:15:56.370 Hold on a minute, girlfriend. Let me just tell you 0:15:56.770 --> 0:16:00.170 what you're doing is biblically wrong and I'm not going 0:16:00.210 --> 0:16:03.890 to accept that. So you go do that to somebody else. 0:16:03.890 --> 0:16:05.250 You don't do that to me. Don't talk to me 0:16:05.250 --> 0:16:09.130 like that. Don't talk to me like that. I remember 0:16:09.130 --> 0:16:11.250 we used to have a person in here most of 0:16:11.250 --> 0:16:14.210 the men were afraid of. And one day she called 0:16:14.210 --> 0:16:17.450 me out. And we had three services in the old sanctuary. 0:16:17.450 --> 0:16:20.890 And she called me out right as Sunday school was dismissed. 0:16:20.890 --> 0:16:23.690 And I'm going to my office, I heard, Pastor Ford, 0:16:24.410 --> 0:16:27.810 I want to talk to you. And I said, almost 0:16:27.810 --> 0:16:31.090 called her name sister So-and-so. And I want to talk 0:16:31.090 --> 0:16:33.850 to you. And everybody's, like, buzzing and everything. Get down. 0:16:33.850 --> 0:16:34.610 Here now. 0:16:35.450 --> 0:16:38.450 You said you did that. Yes, I did that. And 0:16:38.450 --> 0:16:40.810 I called her down. She came in. Well, well, well, 0:16:40.850 --> 0:16:42.930 you know, I just I'm, I got a what. No 0:16:42.930 --> 0:16:44.690 no no no no no. Let me tell you something. 0:16:44.850 --> 0:16:51.010 I ain't married to you, all right? Yeah, and I'm 0:16:51.010 --> 0:16:53.930 not one of your children. Don't you ever talk to 0:16:53.930 --> 0:16:58.450 me like that. Ever. Oh, well. I'm sorry. Y'all apologize, 0:16:58.450 --> 0:17:00.970 I said. Yeah, well. Well, you know, I said it 0:17:01.010 --> 0:17:04.170 so that everybody can hear it. Yeah. And guess what? 0:17:04.210 --> 0:17:07.890 As long as that person was here, never did that 0:17:07.890 --> 0:17:12.010 to me. Now I've seen her do it to other brothers, 0:17:13.130 --> 0:17:16.210 and I try to pull their coat. Hey, she did 0:17:16.210 --> 0:17:17.489 it to me one time. Come on, let. 0:17:17.490 --> 0:17:18.570 Me tell you what I did. Let me tell you 0:17:18.570 --> 0:17:21.730 what I did. Let me tell you what I did, man. 0:17:22.210 --> 0:17:22.810 And you know. 0:17:22.810 --> 0:17:23.250 What? 0:17:23.730 --> 0:17:27.530 I had a brother quit his ministry leader over it 0:17:27.850 --> 0:17:31.170 just because he didn't want to deal with her. Wow. 0:17:32.090 --> 0:17:35.290 That's right. He says you gotta set your face like 0:17:35.290 --> 0:17:38.570 a flint. You gotta go through some things. Yeah. And 0:17:38.570 --> 0:17:41.410 then here's the last one. He says that you have 0:17:41.410 --> 0:17:43.609 to know the sovereignty of God over your liberty. What's 0:17:43.609 --> 0:17:51.410 he saying? God is over when it's going to be over. 0:17:52.970 --> 0:17:55.770 I ain't going to say anything else. You're going through it. 0:17:55.810 --> 0:17:59.370 How long has it been, pastor? I've been waiting for 0:17:59.490 --> 0:18:05.050 God to send me a husband for 13 years. Okay. 0:18:05.090 --> 0:18:11.130 Keep waiting. Keep waiting. Sarah and Abraham waited 25 years 0:18:11.130 --> 0:18:15.450 for their baby. Moses waited 40 years before he got 0:18:15.450 --> 0:18:17.810 into the Institute of the Holy Ghost. In 80 years 0:18:17.810 --> 0:18:22.370 before he started. Keep waiting. Keep waiting. Well, my biological 0:18:22.369 --> 0:18:29.970 clock is running. God can rewind it when it runs out. God, 0:18:29.970 --> 0:18:31.970 I'm sick of this. I'm sick of this. I'm sick 0:18:31.970 --> 0:18:35.530 of this. No! God says you will be in it 0:18:35.530 --> 0:18:39.450 until I say, here's what I love. It says to 0:18:39.490 --> 0:18:43.010 the church of Smyrna, you will be persecuted ten days. Now, now, 0:18:43.010 --> 0:18:45.370 I don't know if you caught that. He said ten days. 0:18:45.369 --> 0:18:48.290 Do you know what that means? Ten days means ten days. 0:18:48.290 --> 0:18:49.690 You know what he was saying? Ten is the number 0:18:49.690 --> 0:18:51.930 for testing. You know what he's saying? I don't care 0:18:51.930 --> 0:18:54.609 what you're going through. One day is going to be over. 0:18:55.330 --> 0:18:59.770 Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in 0:19:00.010 --> 0:19:03.090 the morning. I need to close. And you've been so gracious. 0:19:03.250 --> 0:19:06.090 But you remember what happened, uh, in, uh, in New 0:19:06.090 --> 0:19:08.090 York City? Uh, there was a man by the name 0:19:08.090 --> 0:19:11.090 of Wes Autrey, and Wes Autrey was a 50 year 0:19:11.090 --> 0:19:15.330 old construction worker, and he had his two daughters with him. And, uh, 0:19:15.330 --> 0:19:18.250 he always would think, like most people who traveled, uh, 0:19:18.250 --> 0:19:20.770 that New York subway system. What if I ever fell 0:19:20.810 --> 0:19:26.649 on those tracks? You know, there's two electric, uh, rails, uh, and, uh, 0:19:26.650 --> 0:19:29.369 you could be electrocuted on those things. He said, what 0:19:29.369 --> 0:19:31.610 if I fell in, or what if somebody else fell in? Well, 0:19:31.609 --> 0:19:34.250 he found out one day, uh, because there was a 0:19:34.250 --> 0:19:37.850 man who had a seizure who fell in, uh, as 0:19:37.850 --> 0:19:41.570 the number one was coming. Wes Autrey didn't even think 0:19:41.570 --> 0:19:45.490 about it. He jumped down, pulled the man in between 0:19:45.490 --> 0:19:49.450 the tracks and covered him. The train saw them, but 0:19:49.450 --> 0:19:53.889 couldn't stop and ran over them. The train was over them. 0:19:53.890 --> 0:19:57.250 They cut the power so that they could crawl out. 0:19:57.290 --> 0:20:01.170 They hollered down, are you Alright. And what said I'm okay? 0:20:01.450 --> 0:20:04.850 And this man is okay because I covered him. You 0:20:04.850 --> 0:20:08.369 and I were on the train of life. Uh, we 0:20:08.410 --> 0:20:11.250 were waiting for the train of life. But our sin 0:20:11.450 --> 0:20:15.090 paralyzed us and pushed us on the tracks. And Jesus 0:20:15.090 --> 0:20:21.730 Christ covered us. He covered us and he said, we're alright. 0:20:21.730 --> 0:20:25.250 We're both getting up out of here. And though we 0:20:25.290 --> 0:20:30.210 were dead in trespasses and sin, we are alive in 0:20:30.210 --> 0:20:35.970 Jesus Christ. Listen, there are blessings in a beatdown. And 0:20:35.970 --> 0:20:39.290 I trust the next time you're in tribulation, the next 0:20:39.290 --> 0:20:42.409 time you're in trial, the next time you're in trouble, 0:20:42.410 --> 0:20:48.649 you'll remember that God wants you to bring something out 0:20:48.650 --> 0:20:52.970 of the tribulation that you never would have had had 0:20:52.970 --> 0:20:58.010 you not gone through the tribulation. And so when God 0:20:58.050 --> 0:21:02.480 brings you to it. 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