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Speaker 4: I'd like to start with something funny. And I heard
Speaker 4: about these three people, a Russian, an American, and a blonde.
Speaker 4: They were talking together and the Russian said, proudly, we
Speaker 4: were the first ones in space. The American said, well,
Speaker 4: we were the first ones on the moon. The blonde said,
Speaker 4: that's nothing. We're going to be the first ones on
Speaker 4: the sun. The American the Russian, they laugh, you can't
Speaker 4: go to the sun. It's too hot, you'd be burned up.
Speaker 4: Blonde said, we know that, we're not that dumb. We're
Speaker 4: going to go at night. Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 4: to talk to you today about remove the grave clothes.
Speaker 4: There are people God has put in our lives on purpose,
Speaker 4: so we can help restore them. They're off course, they're addicted,
Speaker 4: they're broken. It's easy to judge and think they should
Speaker 4: make better decisions. It's their own fault. But if it
Speaker 4: was not for the grace of God, that could be us.
Speaker 4: We didn't get to where we are because we're so talented,
Speaker 4: so disciplined, so obedient. That may be true on the surface,
Speaker 4: but where did you get the talent? Where did you
Speaker 4: get the discipline? It came from your heavenly Father. Wasn't
Speaker 4: anything we chose. It's simply the goodness of God. But
Speaker 4: too often we look at others and think, why are
Speaker 4: they still making poor choices? Why are they still addicted?
Speaker 4: Why do they get in bad relationships? Again and again?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't do that. It's because God has given you
Speaker 4: grace in that area. Without his grace, you would be
Speaker 4: where they are. And instead of looking down on them
Speaker 4: pointing the finger, you should know better. They don't need
Speaker 4: more condemnation. God didn't put them there so you could
Speaker 4: judge them. He put them there so you could love them.
Speaker 4: Love He love restores, Love lifts up all around. You
Speaker 4: are hurting people, broken people, people that may not have
Speaker 4: had the advantages that you had. They weren't raised by
Speaker 4: parents that invested in them. They've never felt the love
Speaker 4: of the approval that you felt. It's easy to criticize,
Speaker 4: but you don't know where you would be if you
Speaker 4: had walked in their shoes. The longer I live, the
Speaker 4: less judgmental I am. I realized everyone didn't get what
Speaker 4: I got. It's easy for me to feel secure, valuable, confident,
Speaker 4: believe big. I had parents that guided me, family that
Speaker 4: supported me. I was born in a great country with
Speaker 4: opportunity and resources. Life is not a level playing field.
Speaker 4: When you're tempted to be judgmental, you need to remind yourself,
Speaker 4: most likely they didn't get everything you got if it
Speaker 4: was not for the mercy of God, you would be
Speaker 4: making the same decisions that they're making. God has freely
Speaker 4: given you mercy. Here's my challenge, freely give it to others.
Speaker 4: Don't be stingy with your mercy. God is counting on
Speaker 4: us to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, to
Speaker 4: heal the hurding. There's enough judgment in our world. There's
Speaker 4: enough fault finding criticism. Where are the healers? Where are
Speaker 4: the restorers? Where are the people that instead of running
Speaker 4: away from the herding, they run to the herding. Instead
Speaker 4: of condemning the broken, they help heal the broken. John
Speaker 4: Chapter eleven, Lazarus was very sick. His two sisters sent
Speaker 4: word to Jesus to come pray for him, but Jesus
Speaker 4: didn't arrive in time. Lazarus died. Jesus showed up four
Speaker 4: days later. He spoke to Lazarus, said, Lazarus, come forth.
Speaker 4: Instantly he woke up. He was raised from the dead,
Speaker 4: a great miracle. The problem was Lazarus was wrapped with
Speaker 4: grave clothes. In those days, when someone died, very often,
Speaker 4: they would wrap them up like a mummy. Verse forty
Speaker 4: four says Lazarus came out bound in grave clothes Jesus
Speaker 4: said to them, unwrap him and let him go. Even
Speaker 4: though Lazarus was alive, even though God had done something
Speaker 4: amazing on the inside, he was still bound on the outside.
Speaker 4: Somebody had to remove his grave clothes, or he would
Speaker 4: have never experienced the fullness of what God had done.
Speaker 4: You can imagine when they went to take off the
Speaker 4: grave clothes after being dead for four days, the smell
Speaker 4: was almost unbearable. Every layer they unwrapped, the stench got worse.
Speaker 4: It was dirty, messy, smelly. They had to be incredibly dedicated.
Speaker 4: They must have loved Lazarus a whole lot to have
Speaker 4: been willing to endure all it took to remove his
Speaker 4: grave clothes. This is what God has called us to do.
Speaker 4: There are people around us wearing grave clothes. God has
Speaker 4: done something on the inside. He's breathed life into them,
Speaker 4: given them purpose. But they're still bound on the outside.
Speaker 4: They have addictions, they struggle with their tempers, they're loosing
Speaker 4: their morals. The problem is it's messy. It's tempting to think,
Speaker 4: when they clean themselves up, then I'll help them when
Speaker 4: they get back on course, Joel, when it's not so messy,
Speaker 4: when they come back to church, then I'll encourage them.
Speaker 4: How can they get free if someone doesn't step up
Speaker 4: to remove their grave clothes. Where are the people that
Speaker 4: are willing to get dirty to help someone else, to
Speaker 4: go out on a limb, to befriend someone that others
Speaker 4: think are too far down, to reach out to that
Speaker 4: relative that's struggling with an addiction that others have written off.
Speaker 4: It would be easy to remove grave clothes if they
Speaker 4: were nice and tidy, if people were making good decisions
Speaker 4: on the high road. That's not reality. Grave clothes are dirty.
Speaker 4: Grave clothes are messy. Grave clothes stink, And we think
Speaker 4: when someone still has issues, they still have an addiction,
Speaker 4: they compromise, they're bitter, they're jealous, they have a long
Speaker 4: way to go. But just because they're wearing grave clothes,
Speaker 4: just because they're still dirty, doesn't mean they're not clean
Speaker 4: on the inside. Jesus spoke life to Lazarus. He was
Speaker 4: free on the inside, but still bound on the outside.
Speaker 4: What am I saying? Don't judge by appearance. The grave
Speaker 4: clothes may stink, they may be dirty, but on the inside,
Speaker 4: there's a free person, there's a clean person, there's a
Speaker 4: forgiven person. There's a victorious person. They're just waiting for
Speaker 4: someone that won't be put off by the outside, someone
Speaker 4: that will step up to help remove the grave clothes.
Speaker 4: How do you do this by speaking faith into them,
Speaker 4: not telling them what they are, but telling them what
Speaker 4: they can become, by loving them, by taking time to care,
Speaker 4: by going out of your way to be their friend.
Speaker 4: They have enough people pushing them down, pointing out their faults,
Speaker 4: complaining about their grave clothes. You can be the one
Speaker 4: to push them up, to see the best in them,
Speaker 4: to help them get free. You can be a grave
Speaker 4: clothes remover. For years, my mom prayed for a man
Speaker 4: by the name of Bill Nash. She would see his
Speaker 4: name on marquees around town. Bill was a popular entertainer
Speaker 4: country Western singer. He grew up singing in church as
Speaker 4: a little boy. His parents were missionaries. He was raised
Speaker 4: in a strong family of faith. But as a teenager,
Speaker 4: Bill got off course, already running with the wrong crowd
Speaker 4: and not making good decisions. Instead of singing in churches,
Speaker 4: now he was singing in bars and clubs. But the
Speaker 4: scripture says God's calling on your life is irrevocable. That
Speaker 4: means you may run away from God. But God won't
Speaker 4: run away from you. His grace will come looking for you.
Speaker 4: Paul wrote about the grace in Romans that God freely
Speaker 4: gives us. One translation of the word freely is promiscuous.
Speaker 4: When someone is promiscuous, they're loose, they're unrestrained. They'll be
Speaker 4: with anyone. That's the way God's grace is. You can
Speaker 4: be in a bar and Grace will come looking for you.
Speaker 4: You can be hound drugs and Grace will come knocking
Speaker 4: at your door. You can be in the wrong places,
Speaker 4: doing the wrong thing with the wrong people, and when
Speaker 4: you least expect it, out of nowhere, you'll hear that
Speaker 4: still small voice saying, come back home. I love you.
Speaker 4: I have something better. God doesn't say if you clean
Speaker 4: yourself up, I'll show you mercy. If you get back
Speaker 4: on course, I'll think about being good to you. God's
Speaker 4: grace is promiscuous. It goes to unlikely places. And every
Speaker 4: time my mom saw Bill's name under her breath, Lord,
Speaker 4: thank you for bringing Bill back home. Thank you that
Speaker 4: he'll fulfill his destiny. She had never met him, had
Speaker 4: no connections, but year after year she kept praying for him.
Speaker 4: Didn't look like anything was happening, but you don't know
Speaker 4: what God is doing behind the scenes. One day, that
Speaker 4: grace convinced Bill to turn his life around. He wanted
Speaker 4: to go to church, but he thought nobody'd want somebody
Speaker 4: like me. I've made a lot of mistakes, lived a
Speaker 4: rough life. I'm known as a partier. He turned on
Speaker 4: the television and saw my father talking about the goodness
Speaker 4: of God. That Sunday, he walked in Lakewood, first time
Speaker 4: since he was a teenager. Sat way in the back.
Speaker 4: Someone recognized him and brought him down to see my mom.
Speaker 4: She told how she had been praying for him and
Speaker 4: how that was a dream come true. That day was
Speaker 4: a turning point in Bill's life. A few months later,
Speaker 4: he gave his first Christian concert at Lakewood, and he's
Speaker 4: been using his talents for the Lord ever since. Like Lazarus,
Speaker 4: Bill needed someone to help remove the grave clothes. That's
Speaker 4: what my mother did. She recognized underneath the mess, the partying,
Speaker 4: the compromising, there was a free man, a man destined
Speaker 4: to do great things. There are a lot of Bills
Speaker 4: out there, people that are bound on the outside, but
Speaker 4: they have greatness on the inside. They just need someone
Speaker 4: that won't be afraid to get dirty. Someone that won't
Speaker 4: be judgmental and say he used to be in church,
Speaker 4: he's in the bars, what's wrong with him? Instead of
Speaker 4: judging them, why don't you take that same time to
Speaker 4: pray for them, to reach out to them, to let
Speaker 4: them know that you believe in them. What if when
Speaker 4: Jesus raised Lazarus, no one was willing to remove the
Speaker 4: grave clothes. Nobody wanted to deal with the stink, Nobody
Speaker 4: wanted to get dirty. Lazarus wouldn't have lived that long.
Speaker 4: He was bound, not able to move. Jesus did his part,
Speaker 4: but he was counting on Lazarus's friends and family to
Speaker 4: do their part. Are there people in your life waiting
Speaker 4: for you to help remove their grave clothes? Their off course,
Speaker 4: struggling in some area. It's easy to make excuses. They
Speaker 4: brought the trouble on themselves. It's their fault. I'm too busy.
Speaker 4: I've got enough problems of my own. No, take time
Speaker 4: to make a difference. Don't look at them through eyes
Speaker 4: of judgment, look at them through eyes of love. Be
Speaker 4: deep down they want to change. Maybe grace has been
Speaker 4: knocking at their door, getting stronger and stronger, but they
Speaker 4: don't know the next step, a phone call from you,
Speaker 4: a kind word, taking them out to dinner, not to
Speaker 4: try to straighten them out, but just to let them
Speaker 4: know that you care. That's what speaks volumes that you're
Speaker 4: not there to condemn them, to point out their faults.
Speaker 4: You are there to simply love them. John chapter eight.
Speaker 4: These religious leaders brought a woman to Jesus threw her
Speaker 4: down at his feet. She was caught in the act
Speaker 4: of adultery. They said, Jesus, the law says stone her.
Speaker 4: What do you say we should do? Seemed obvious. The
Speaker 4: law was clear, the lady was guilty. One thing I
Speaker 4: love about Jesus is he broke religious rules in order
Speaker 4: to be good to people. In the Old Testament, God
Speaker 4: gave them ten commandments, but the people turned them into
Speaker 4: over two thousand laws. When Jesus came, he said, in
Speaker 4: the fact, I'm getting rid of all these religious rules,
Speaker 4: all these heavy demands you put on people that only
Speaker 4: make them guilty and condemned. Instead, I'm going to condense
Speaker 4: them down into two commandments. Love the Lord your God
Speaker 4: with all your heart. And love your neighbor as you
Speaker 4: love yourself. He was saying, people are more important than
Speaker 4: religious rules. Everything is not going to fit perfectly into
Speaker 4: ar theology. They have to do this, they have to
Speaker 4: do that. They can't do that, they can't go there.
Speaker 4: If you convince people to follow all your religious rules,
Speaker 4: but you don't have love, the scripture says, we're like
Speaker 4: a loud, clinging symbol. I don't want to be known
Speaker 4: for what I'm against. I want to be known for
Speaker 4: what I'm for. I'm for people. I'm for second chances.
Speaker 4: I'm for mercy. I'm not into condemning thisiness. I'm in
Speaker 4: the loving business. I'm in the healing business. I'm in
Speaker 4: the lifting business. I want to be known as a
Speaker 4: grave clothes remover, as someone that saw the best in people,
Speaker 4: that helped push them into their destiny, as someone that
Speaker 4: was willing to get dirty, to go after messy people,
Speaker 4: broken people, people that society has written off. But let
Speaker 4: me warn you, when you love people who are messy,
Speaker 4: you may be criticized, you may be talked about. One time,
Speaker 4: Jesus was walking through a crowded town, thousands of people around.
Speaker 4: He looked up and saw zach kias the chief tax collector.
Speaker 4: He was known as one of the most dishonest people.
Speaker 4: He lied, he cheated, he didn't keep his word. Yet
Speaker 4: Jesus said, I want to go to dinner with you today.
Speaker 4: Of all the people there that day, there were priests, rabbis,
Speaker 4: elders in the synagogue. But Grace goes to unlikely places.
Speaker 4: Jesus didn't see just what Zacheus was. He saw what
Speaker 4: he could become. He was bound on the outside by
Speaker 4: grave clothes, but he knew on the inside was a
Speaker 4: man of integrity, a man of honor. Jesus went to
Speaker 4: dinner with Zacheus, someone that people considered dirty, messy, broken.
Speaker 4: In fact, the scripture says the religious leaders complained that
Speaker 4: he went to dinner with a notorious sinner. When you
Speaker 4: go after the broken, the hurting, the addicted, people may criticize,
Speaker 4: they may talk about you, but you're in good company.
Speaker 4: You are never more like God than when you go
Speaker 4: after messy people. This lady was on the ground in
Speaker 4: front of Jesus, surrounded by all these men. She was afraid, embarrassed,
Speaker 4: expecting the worst. Jesus knelt down and wrote in the
Speaker 4: He said to them, whoever is without sin, throw the
Speaker 4: first stone. They all put their heads down. They were convicted.
Speaker 4: When you're tempted to be judgmental, ask yourself, have I
Speaker 4: ever done wrong? Am I qualified to throw the first stone?
Speaker 4: None of us are? The men walked out, from the
Speaker 4: oldest to the youngest. He said to her, where are
Speaker 4: your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you? She said no. Man, Lord,
Speaker 4: he said, neither do I now go and sin no more.
Speaker 4: Our religious minds go tilt, tilt, tilt. Grace for somebody
Speaker 4: that committed adultery, Grace for a man that's known for
Speaker 4: being dishonest, Grace for a guy that's singing in clubs.
Speaker 4: God's grace is promiscuous. Why don't you go after someone
Speaker 4: that doesn't deserve it, someone that's made mistakes, someone that's hurting.
Speaker 4: You can be the one that helps put them back
Speaker 4: on their feet. Nobody's too are gone, nobody's made too
Speaker 4: many mistakes. All some people need is one person to
Speaker 4: believe in them, one person to say, hey, I'm praying
Speaker 4: for you, one person to breathe new life back into
Speaker 4: their spirit. Years ago, there was a minister that was
Speaker 4: touching the world, doing great things, but someone accused him
Speaker 4: of having a lack of integrity. Rumors started to spread.
Speaker 4: They took on a life of their own, and he
Speaker 4: had made mistakes, but it was blown way out of proportion.
Speaker 4: He was so devastated he got out of the ministry
Speaker 4: for months. You didn't hear anything from him. I didn't
Speaker 4: know him. Well, it's much older than I am. But
Speaker 4: I felt like I was supposed to reach out to him,
Speaker 4: but my mind came up with all these excuses. Joe,
Speaker 4: he's not going to listen to you. If people find
Speaker 4: out you're talking, you're going to be drug into this mess.
Speaker 4: You better leave him alone. He doesn't have a good reputation,
Speaker 4: he's tainted, he's messing. But I found God loves messy people.
Speaker 4: God loves broken people. He loves people that are at
Speaker 4: a disadvantage, not just people that have had bad breaks,
Speaker 4: but he even loves people that have brought the trouble
Speaker 4: on themselves. And this is where human nature says, they're
Speaker 4: getting what they deserve. Let them deal with it. They're guilty,
Speaker 4: but only the guilty need mercy. Where are the healers?
Speaker 4: Where are the restoreres, the people that are not too
Speaker 4: self righteous to get down? Where someone is hurting with
Speaker 4: the broken to help heal the wounds. I didn't know
Speaker 4: if he'd take my call, but I felt strongly about it.
Speaker 4: He answered the phone. I could barely hear him speak.
Speaker 4: He said, Joel, I don't have any more fight left
Speaker 4: in me. I'm done. I didn't talk long, but for
Speaker 4: the next three minutes I spoke faith into him. I
Speaker 4: spoke restoration. I told him that we needed him, that
Speaker 4: the nations were waiting on him, that God's mercy is
Speaker 4: bigger than our mistakes, that his best days were not behind,
Speaker 4: they were still out in front. He said, in a
Speaker 4: real soft voice, thank you, and hung up. Didn't seem
Speaker 4: like it did any good. But six months later he
Speaker 4: called back and sounded like a different person. He had
Speaker 4: his fireback, his passion back. He was about to go overseas.
Speaker 4: He said something I'll never forget. He said, Joel, it
Speaker 4: all turned around that day. You called something reignited in
Speaker 4: my spirit. Something came alive on the inside. When you
Speaker 4: go after the hurting, the broken, the discourage, the anointing
Speaker 4: on your life will break yokes that are holding them back.
Speaker 4: You may not feel it, they may not respond right away,
Speaker 4: but when you speak faith, change or breaking, when you
Speaker 4: show Love's strongholds for coming down. When you're merciful, compassionate forgiving,
Speaker 4: you'll pour an oil on the wounds. You'll being a healer,
Speaker 4: a restorer, a lifter. There was a young prophet in
Speaker 4: the Old Testament named Hoseah. He lived at a time
Speaker 4: when the Israelites were worshiping idols and not honoring God.
Speaker 4: Hooseah was well respected. People came from all over to
Speaker 4: get his advice. He was a single man and looked
Speaker 4: forward to the day he would get married. He knew
Speaker 4: God would bring him a wife, but it wasn't what
Speaker 4: he thought. God told him to marry a lady named Gomer.
Speaker 4: Gomer was a former prostitute. She didn't have a good reputation.
Speaker 4: Can imagine Hoseah thought, God, do you know who this
Speaker 4: lady is. I'm a prophet, I'm a man of God.
Speaker 4: What are people going to think? He could have talked
Speaker 4: himself out of it, but he knew to obey and
Speaker 4: things started off good. They were in love. They had
Speaker 4: a son, but then things went downhill. Hoseiah would go
Speaker 4: out to minister, but Gomer didn't understand the calling on
Speaker 4: his life. She had two more sons, but not by Joseah.
Speaker 4: She slipped back into her old ways. Hoseiah was heartbroken.
Speaker 4: He knew she was being unfaithful, but he loved his wife.
Speaker 4: He pleaded with her again and again to change, and
Speaker 4: it would last for a little while, then she'd go
Speaker 4: right back to make matters worse. Everyone knew about Gomer's affairs.
Speaker 4: She was the talk of the town. One morning, Joseah
Speaker 4: woke up and Gomer was gone. She'd abandon him and
Speaker 4: the three children. Maybe she left a note saying I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: but I've done I found another man to love. Going
Speaker 4: with your life. I can hear Hoseah's friends saying, it's
Speaker 4: about time that lady has brought you nothing but heartache
Speaker 4: and pain. You deserve much better. That sounded good on
Speaker 4: the outside, but Hooseiah still loved Gomer. He grieved greatly
Speaker 4: over this loss. Years later, he overheard from the town
Speaker 4: gossip that Gomer was still alive. She had been deserted
Speaker 4: by all the men that said they loved her. Now
Speaker 4: she had hit rock bottom. She was about to be
Speaker 4: sold as a slave. The scripture says the Lord said
Speaker 4: to Joseiah, go get your wife again and bring her
Speaker 4: back home. After all the pain she had caused. After
Speaker 4: all the rejection abandonment, you would think Joseiah would say
Speaker 4: I am done with this lady, I am over with her,
Speaker 4: But Josea had this undying love. He went back to
Speaker 4: the city and found her in the red light district
Speaker 4: on the auction block, about to be sold. She was
Speaker 4: beaten down, dirty hair, disheveled, closed, torn her head down
Speaker 4: in shame. He got up close and whispered Gomer. She
Speaker 4: looked up and couldn't believe it. He smiled and said,
Speaker 4: don't worry. I'm going to get you out of here.
Speaker 4: What was that promiscuous grace? It goes to unusual places.
Speaker 4: He went to the man in charge and said, that's
Speaker 4: my wife. I'm taking her with me. He said, you're
Speaker 4: not taking her anywhere. She belongs to me. She's for sale.
Speaker 4: You'll have to buy her. He took out his wallet
Speaker 4: and paid fifteen shekels and five barley loaves. He bought
Speaker 4: back what should have been already his Hoseiah is a
Speaker 4: picture of God. Gomer represents you and me. We've all
Speaker 4: been unfaithful. We went our own way, did our own thing.
Speaker 4: But God, who is rich in mercy, when we turned
Speaker 4: our back on him. He had every right to walk away,
Speaker 4: but he didn't turn his back on us. He came
Speaker 4: down to the messy places, to where we found, to
Speaker 4: where we should have been finished, and he brought us back,
Speaker 4: not with fifteen shekels, but with the blood of his
Speaker 4: own son. Since God has rescued us, since he has
Speaker 4: brought us back, will you be a Hoseiah and buy
Speaker 4: somebody else back? Will you rescue them? They are hurting
Speaker 4: people all around you, broken people that don't think anyone cares.
Speaker 4: They're in messy places. They don't deserve your kindness. You
Speaker 4: could walk away, nobody would fault you. But God rescued you.
Speaker 4: He's counting on you to rescue them. They're not in
Speaker 4: your path by accident. God put them there because he
Speaker 4: can trust you. You can help love them back into wholeness.
Speaker 4: Other people may not see it. But underneath the mess,
Speaker 4: the addictions, the bad habits, there's the sun. There's a
Speaker 4: daughter of the Most High God. They may be bound
Speaker 4: on the outside, but like Lazarus Royalty, on the inside,
Speaker 4: they have seeds of greatness. Will you be a Hoseiah
Speaker 4: and go after the hurting, Go after the broken, those
Speaker 4: that are dedicted, those that have been written off by society.
Speaker 4: Not with your finger pointed in judgment telling them what
Speaker 4: they're doing wrong. Go after them with something more powerful,
Speaker 4: with love, with mercy, with the goodness of God. They
Speaker 4: don't deserve it. Neither did we while we were yet sinners.
Speaker 4: Christ died for us. You've been shown incredible mercy. I'm
Speaker 4: asking you show that mercy to others. Be a Hoseiah.
Speaker 4: If you'll do this, I believe and declare as you
Speaker 4: lift others up, God is going to lift you up
Speaker 4: as you rescue somebody else. God will always have somebody
Speaker 4: to rescue you and your children. The seeds you sow
Speaker 4: will come back to you in Jesus's name, and if
Speaker 4: you receive it. Can you say aven today? I'd like
Speaker 4: to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord
Speaker 4: of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,
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