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Speaker 6: is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.
Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 5: to talk to you today about remove the grave clothes.
Speaker 5: There are people God has put in our lives on purpose,
Speaker 5: so we can help restore them. They're off course, they're addicted,
Speaker 5: they're broken. It's easy to judge and think they should
Speaker 5: make better decisions.
Speaker 6: It's their own fault.
Speaker 5: But if it was not for the grace of God,
Speaker 5: that could be us. We didn't get to where we
Speaker 5: are because we're so talented, so disciplined, so obedient. That
Speaker 5: may be true on the surface, but where did you
Speaker 5: get the talent, Where did you get the discipline? It
Speaker 5: came from your heavenly Father. Wasn't anything we chose.
Speaker 6: It's simply the goodness of God.
Speaker 5: But too often we look at others and think, why
Speaker 5: are they still making poor choices, Why are they still addicted?
Speaker 5: Why do they get in bad relationships? Again and again?
Speaker 6: I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5: It's because God has given you grace in that area.
Speaker 5: Without his grace, you would be where they are. And
Speaker 5: instead of looking down on them pointing the finger, you
Speaker 5: should know better. They don't need more condemnation. God didn't
Speaker 5: put them there so you could judge them.
Speaker 6: He put them there so you could love them.
Speaker 5: Love heels, love restores, love lifts up all around.
Speaker 6: You are hurting people, broken people.
Speaker 5: People that may not have had the advantages that you had.
Speaker 5: They weren't raised by parents that invested in them. They've
Speaker 5: never felt the love of the approval.
Speaker 6: That you felt.
Speaker 5: It's easy to criticize, but you don't know where you
Speaker 5: would be if you had walked in their shoes. The
Speaker 5: longer I live, the less judgmental I am. I realize
Speaker 5: everyone didn't get what I got. It's easy for me
Speaker 5: to feel secure, valuable, confident, believe big. I had parents
Speaker 5: that guided me, family that supported me. I was born
Speaker 5: in a great country with opportunity and resources.
Speaker 6: Life is not a level playing field.
Speaker 5: When you're tempted to be judgmental, you need to remind
Speaker 5: yourself most likely they didn't get everything you got. If
Speaker 5: it was not for the mercy of God, you would
Speaker 5: be making the same decisions that they're making. God has
Speaker 5: freely given you mercy. Here's my challenge, Freely give it
Speaker 5: to others. Don't be stingy with your mercy. God is
Speaker 5: counting on us to lift the fallen, to restore the broken,
Speaker 5: to heal the hurting. There's enough judgment in our world.
Speaker 5: There's enough fault finding criticism.
Speaker 6: Where are the healers? Where are the restorers?
Speaker 5: Where are the people that, instead of running away from
Speaker 5: the herding, they run to the hrding Instead of condemning
Speaker 5: the broken. They help heal the broken John Chapter eleven.
Speaker 5: Lazarus was very sick. His two sisters sent word to
Speaker 5: Jesus to come pray for him, but Jesus didn't arrive
Speaker 5: in time. Lazarus died. Jesus showed up four days later.
Speaker 5: He spoke to Lazarus, said, Lazarus.
Speaker 6: Come forth.
Speaker 5: Instantly he woke up. He was raised from the dead,
Speaker 5: a great miracle. The problem was Lazarus was wrapped with
Speaker 5: grave clothes. In those days, when someone died, very often
Speaker 5: they would wrap them up like a mummy. Verse forty
Speaker 5: four says Lazarus came out bound in grave clothes.
Speaker 6: Jesus said to.
Speaker 5: Them, unwrap him and let him go. Even though Lazarus
Speaker 5: was alive, even though God had done something amazing on
Speaker 5: the inside, he was still bound on the outside. Somebody
Speaker 5: had to remove his grave clothes or he would have
Speaker 5: never experienced the fullness.
Speaker 6: Of what God had done.
Speaker 5: You can imagine when they went to take off the
Speaker 5: grave clothes after being dead for four days, the smell
Speaker 5: was almost unbearable.
Speaker 6: Every layer they unwrapped, the stench got worse. It was dirty, messy, smelly.
Speaker 5: They had to be incredibly dedicated They must have loved
Speaker 5: Lazarus a whole lot to have been willing to endure
Speaker 5: all it took to remove his grave clothes. This is
Speaker 5: what God has called us to do. There are people
Speaker 5: around us wearing grave clothes. God has done something on
Speaker 5: the inside, He's breathed life into them, given them purpose.
Speaker 5: But they're still bound on the outside. They have addictions,
Speaker 5: they struggle with their tempers, they're loosing their morals.
Speaker 6: The problem is it's messy.
Speaker 5: It's tempting to think when they clean themselves up, then
Speaker 5: I'll help them when they get back on course, Joel,
Speaker 5: when it's not so messy, when they come back to church,
Speaker 5: then I'll encourage them.
Speaker 6: Can they get free?
Speaker 5: If someone doesn't step up to remove their grave clothes?
Speaker 5: Where are the people that are willing to get dirty
Speaker 5: to help someone else, to go out on a limb,
Speaker 5: to befriend someone that others think are too far down,
Speaker 5: to reach out to that relative that's struggling with an
Speaker 5: addiction that.
Speaker 6: Others have written off.
Speaker 5: It would be easy to remove grave clothes if they
Speaker 5: were nice and tidy, if people were making good decisions
Speaker 5: on the high road. That's not reality. Grave clothes are dirty.
Speaker 5: Grave clothes are messy. Grave close stink, and we think
Speaker 5: when someone still has issues, they still have an addiction,
Speaker 5: They compromise, they're bitter, they're jealous, they have a long
Speaker 5: way to go. But just because they're wearing grave clothes,
Speaker 5: just because they're still dirty, doesn't mean they're not clean
Speaker 5: on the inside. Jesus spoke life to Lazarus. He was
Speaker 5: free on the inside, but still bound on the outside.
Speaker 6: What am I saying? Don't judge by appearance.
Speaker 5: The grave clothes may stink, they may be dirty, but
Speaker 5: on the inside there's a free person. There's a clean person.
Speaker 5: There's a forgiven person. There's a victorious person.
Speaker 6: They're just waiting for someone.
Speaker 5: That won't be put off by the outside, someone that
Speaker 5: will step up to.
Speaker 6: Help remove the grave clothes. How do you do this?
Speaker 5: By speaking faith into them, not telling them what they are,
Speaker 5: but telling them what they can become, by loving them,
Speaker 5: by taking time to care, by going.
Speaker 6: Out of your way to be their friend.
Speaker 5: They have enough people pushing them down, pointing out their faults,
Speaker 5: complaining about their grave clothes. You can be the one
Speaker 5: to push them up to see the best in them,
Speaker 5: to help them get free.
Speaker 6: You can be a grave clothes remover.
Speaker 5: For years, my mom prayed for a man by the
Speaker 5: name of She would see his name on marquees around town.
Speaker 5: Bill was a popular entertainer country Western singer.
Speaker 6: He grew up singing in church.
Speaker 5: As a little boy. His parents were missionaries. He was
Speaker 5: raised in a strong family of faith. But as a teenager,
Speaker 5: Bill god off course, started running with the wrong crowd,
Speaker 5: not making good decisions. Instead of singing in churches, now
Speaker 5: he was singing in bars and clubs. But the scripture
Speaker 5: says God's calling on your life is irrevocable. That means
Speaker 5: you may run away from God, but God won't run
Speaker 5: away from you.
Speaker 6: His grace will come looking for you.
Speaker 5: Paul wrote about the grace in Romans that God freely
Speaker 5: gives us. One translation of the word freely is promiscuous.
Speaker 5: When someone is promiscuous, they're loose, they're unrestrained.
Speaker 6: They'll be with anyone.
Speaker 5: That's the way God's grace is. You can be in
Speaker 5: a bar and Grace will come looking for you. You
Speaker 5: can be high on drugs and Grace will come knocking
Speaker 5: at your door. You can be in the wrong places,
Speaker 5: doing the wrong thing with the wrong people, and when
Speaker 5: you least expect it. Out of nowhere, you'll hear that
Speaker 5: still small voice saying, come back home.
Speaker 6: I love you. I have something better. God doesn't say.
Speaker 5: If you clean yourself up, I'll show you mercy. If
Speaker 5: you get back on course, I'll think about being good
Speaker 5: to you. God's grace is promiscuous. It goes to unlikely places.
Speaker 5: And every time my mom saw Bill's name under her breath, Lord,
Speaker 5: thank you for bringing Bill back home. Thank you that
Speaker 5: he'll fulfill his destiny. She had never met him, had
Speaker 5: no connections, but year after year she kept praying for him.
Speaker 5: Didn't look like anything was happening, but you don't know
Speaker 5: what God is doing behind the scenes. One day, that
Speaker 5: grace convinced Bill to turn his life around. He wanted
Speaker 5: to go to church, but he thought nobody'd want somebody
Speaker 5: like me. I've made a lot of mistakes, lived a
Speaker 5: rough life. I'm known as a partier. He turned on
Speaker 5: the television and saw my father talking about the goodness
Speaker 5: of God. That Sunday, he walked in Lakewood, first time
Speaker 5: since he was a teenager. Sat way in the back.
Speaker 5: Someone recognized him and brought him down.
Speaker 6: To see my mom.
Speaker 5: She told how she had been praying for him and
Speaker 5: how that was a dream come true. That day was
Speaker 5: a turning point in Bill's life. A few months later,
Speaker 5: he gave his first Christian concert at Lakewood and he's
Speaker 5: been using his talents for the Lord ever since. Like Lazarus,
Speaker 5: Bill needed someone to help remove the grave clothes. That's
Speaker 5: what my mother did. She recognized underneath the mess, the partying,
Speaker 5: the compromising, there was a freeman, a man destined.
Speaker 6: To do great things.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of bills out there, people that
Speaker 5: are bound on the outside, but they have greatness on
Speaker 5: the inside.
Speaker 6: They just need someone that.
Speaker 5: Won't be afraid to get dirty, someone that won't be
Speaker 5: judgmental and say, he used to be in church, he's
Speaker 5: in the bars, what's wrong with him?
Speaker 6: Instead of judging them.
Speaker 5: Why don't you take that same time to pray for them,
Speaker 5: to reach out to them, to let them know.
Speaker 6: That you believe in them.
Speaker 5: What if when Jesus raised Lazarus, no one was willing
Speaker 5: to remove the grave clothes, Nobody wanted to deal with
Speaker 5: the stink, nobody wanted to get dirty. Lazarus wouldn't have
Speaker 5: lived that long. He was bound, not able to move.
Speaker 5: Jesus did his part, but he was counting on Lazarus's
Speaker 5: friends and family to do their part.
Speaker 6: Are there people in your life.
Speaker 5: Waiting for you to help remove their grave clothes? They're
Speaker 5: off course, struggling in some area.
Speaker 6: It's easy to make excuses. They brought the trouble on themselves.
Speaker 5: It's their fault. I'm too busy. I've got enough problems
Speaker 5: of my own. No, take time to make a difference.
Speaker 5: Don't look at them through eyes of judgment. Look at
Speaker 5: them through eyes of love. Maybe deep down they want
Speaker 5: to change. Maybe grace has been knocking at their door,
Speaker 5: getting stronger and stronger, but they don't know the next step.
Speaker 5: A phone call from you, a kind word, taking them
Speaker 5: out to dinner, not to try to straighten them out,
Speaker 5: but just to let them know that you care. That's
Speaker 5: what speaks volumes that you're not there to condemn them,
Speaker 5: to point out their faults. You are there to simply
Speaker 5: love them. John chapter eight. These religious leaders brought a
Speaker 5: woman to Jesus threw her down.
Speaker 6: At his feet.
Speaker 5: She was caught in the act of adultery. They said, Jesus,
Speaker 5: the law says stone her.
Speaker 6: What do you say we should do?
Speaker 5: Seemed obvious the law was clear the lady was guilty.
Speaker 5: One thing I love about Jesus is he broke religious
Speaker 5: rules in order to be good to people. In the
Speaker 5: Old Testament, God gave them ten commandments, but the people
Speaker 5: turned them into over two thousand laws. When Jesus came,
Speaker 5: he said, in the fact, I'm getting rid of all.
Speaker 6: These religious rules, all these heavy.
Speaker 5: Demands you put on people that only make them guilty
Speaker 5: and condemned. Instead, I'm going to condense them down into
Speaker 5: two commandments. Love the Lord your God with all your heart.
Speaker 5: And love your neighbor as you love yourself. He was saying,
Speaker 5: people are more important than religious rules. Everything is not
Speaker 5: going to fit perfectly into our theology. They have to
Speaker 5: do this, they have to do that. They can't do that,
Speaker 5: They can't go there. If you convince people to fall
Speaker 5: all your religious rules but you don't have love, the
Speaker 5: scripture says, we're like a loud, clinging symbol. I don't
Speaker 5: want to be known for what I'm against. I want
Speaker 5: to be known for what I'm for. I'm for people.
Speaker 5: I'm four second chances, I'm for mercy. I'm not in
Speaker 5: the condemning business. I'm in the loving business. I'm in
Speaker 5: the healing business. I'm in the lifting business. I want
Speaker 5: to be known as a grade clothes remover, as someone
Speaker 5: that saw the best in people, that helped push them
Speaker 5: into their destiny, as someone that was willing to get dirty,
Speaker 5: to go after messy people, broken people, people that society
Speaker 5: has written off. But let me warn you, when you
Speaker 5: love people who are messy, you may be criticized, You
Speaker 5: may be talked about.
Speaker 6: One time, Jesus was walking through.
Speaker 5: A crowded town, thousands of people around. He looked up
Speaker 5: and saw zach kias the chief tax collector. He was
Speaker 5: known as one of the most dishonest people. He lied,
Speaker 5: he cheated, he didn't keep his word. Yet Jesus said,
Speaker 5: I want to go to dinner with you today. Of
Speaker 5: all the people there that day, there were priests, rabbis,
Speaker 5: elders in the synagogue, but Grace goes to unlikely places.
Speaker 5: Jesus didn't see just what Zachieus was.
Speaker 6: He saw what he could become.
Speaker 5: He was bound on the outside by grave clothes, but
Speaker 5: he knew on the inside was a man of integrity,
Speaker 5: a man of honor. Jesus went to dinner with zachieas
Speaker 5: someone that people considered dirty, messy broken. In fact, the
Speaker 5: scripture says the religious leaders complained that he went to
Speaker 5: dinner with a notorious sinner. When you go after the broken,
Speaker 5: the hurting, the addicted, people may criticize, they may.
Speaker 6: Talk about you, but you're in god good company.
Speaker 5: You are never more like God than when you go
Speaker 5: after messy people. This lady was on the ground in
Speaker 5: front of Jesus, surrounded by all these men. She was afraid, embarrassed,
Speaker 5: expecting the worst.
Speaker 6: Jesus knelt down and wrote in the ground.
Speaker 5: He said to them, whoever is without sin, throw the
Speaker 5: first stone. They all put their heads down. They were convicted.
Speaker 5: When you're tempted to be judgmental, ask yourself, have I
Speaker 5: ever done wrong? Am I qualified to throw the first stone?
Speaker 5: None of us are. The men walked out, from the
Speaker 5: oldest to the youngest. He said to her, where are
Speaker 5: your accusers?
Speaker 6: Hasn't anyone condemned you? She said no. Man, Lord, he said,
Speaker 6: neither do I Now go and sin no more. Our
Speaker 6: religious minds go tilt tilt, tilt.
Speaker 5: Grace for somebody that committed adultery, Grace for a man
Speaker 5: that's known for being dishonest, Grace for a guy that's
Speaker 5: singing in clubs.
Speaker 6: God's grace is promiscuous.
Speaker 5: Why don't you go after someone that doesn't deserve it,
Speaker 5: someone that's made mistakes, someone that's hurting. You can be
Speaker 5: the one that helps put them back on their feet.
Speaker 5: Nobody's too far gone, nobody's.
Speaker 6: Made too many mistakes.
Speaker 5: All some people need is one person to believe in them,
Speaker 5: one person to say, hey, I'm praying for you, one
Speaker 5: person to breathe new life back.
Speaker 6: Into their spirit.
Speaker 5: Years ago, there was a minister that was touching the world,
Speaker 5: doing great things, but someone accused him of having a
Speaker 5: lack of integrity. Rumors started to spread. They took on
Speaker 5: a life of their own, and he had made mistakes,
Speaker 5: but it was blown way out of proportion. He was
Speaker 5: so devastated he got out of the ministry for months.
Speaker 5: You didn't hear anything from him. I didn't know him. Well,
Speaker 5: it's much old, older than I am, But I felt
Speaker 5: like I was supposed to reach out to him, but
Speaker 5: my mind came up with all these excuses.
Speaker 6: Joey, he's not going to listen to you.
Speaker 5: If people find out you're talking, you're going to be
Speaker 5: drug into this mess. You better leave him alone. He
Speaker 5: doesn't have a good reputation, he's tainted, he's messy. But
Speaker 5: I found God loves messy people. God loves broken people.
Speaker 5: He loves people that are at a disadvantage, not just
Speaker 5: people that have had bad breaks, but he even loves
Speaker 5: people that have brought the trouble on themselves. And this
Speaker 5: is where human nature says, they're getting what they deserve.
Speaker 6: Let them deal with it.
Speaker 5: They're guilty, but only the guilty need mercy.
Speaker 6: Where are the healers, Where.
Speaker 5: Are the restores, the people that are not too self
Speaker 5: righteous to get down? Where someone is hurting with the
Speaker 5: broken to help heal the wounds. I didn't know if
Speaker 5: you'd take my call, but I felt strongly about it.
Speaker 5: He answered the phone. I could barely hear him speak.
Speaker 5: He said, Joel, I don't have any more fight left
Speaker 5: in me.
Speaker 6: I'm done.
Speaker 5: I didn't talk long, but for the next three minutes
Speaker 5: I spoke faith into him.
Speaker 6: I spoke restoration.
Speaker 5: I told him that we needed him, that the nations
Speaker 5: were waiting on him, that God's mercy is bigger than
Speaker 5: our mistakes, that his best days were not behind, they
Speaker 5: were still out in front. He said, in a real
Speaker 5: soft voice, thank you and hung up. Didn't seem like
Speaker 5: it did any good. But six months later he called
Speaker 5: back and sounded like a different person. He had his fireback,
Speaker 5: his passion back. He was about to go overseas. He
Speaker 5: said something I'll never forget. He said, Joel, it all
Speaker 5: turned around that day. You called something reignited in my spirit.
Speaker 5: Something came alive on the inside. When after the hurting,
Speaker 5: the broken, the discourage, the anointing on your life will
Speaker 5: break yokes that are holding them back. You may not
Speaker 5: feel it, they may not respond right away. But when
Speaker 5: you speak faith change or breaking. When you show Love's
Speaker 5: strongholds for coming down, when you're merciful, compassionate, forgiving you
Speaker 5: pouring oil on the wounds, you're being a healer, a restorer,
Speaker 5: a lifter. There was a young prophet in the Old
Speaker 5: Testament named Hosea. He lived at a time when the
Speaker 5: Israelites were worshiping idols and not honoring God. Hosea was
Speaker 5: well respected. People came from all over to get his advice.
Speaker 5: He was a single man and looked forward to the
Speaker 5: day he would get married. He knew God would bring
Speaker 5: him a wife, but it wasn't what he thought. God
Speaker 5: told him to marry a lady named Gomer. Gomer was
Speaker 5: a form or prostitute. She didn't have a good reputation.
Speaker 5: Can imagine. Joseah thought, God, do you know who this
Speaker 5: lady is. I'm a prophet, I'm a man of God.
Speaker 6: What are people going to think?
Speaker 5: He could have talked himself out of it, but he
Speaker 5: knew to obey and things.
Speaker 6: Started off good.
Speaker 5: They were in love, they had a son, but then
Speaker 5: things went downhill. Hoseiah would go out to minister, but
Speaker 5: Gomer didn't understand the calling on his life. She had
Speaker 5: two more sons, but not by Hoseah. She slipped back
Speaker 5: into her old ways. Hoseah was heartbroken. He knew she
Speaker 5: was being unfaithful.
Speaker 6: But he loved his wife.
Speaker 5: He pleaded with her again and again to change, and
Speaker 5: it would last for a little while. Then she'd go
Speaker 5: right back to make matters worse. Everyone knew about Gomer's affairs.
Speaker 6: She was the talk of the town.
Speaker 5: One morning, Joseah woke up and Gomer was gone. She'd
Speaker 5: abandon him, him and the three children. Maybe she left
Speaker 5: a note saying, I'm sorry, but I'm done.
Speaker 6: I found another man to love. Going with your.
Speaker 5: Life, I can hear Hoseiah's friends saying, it's about time
Speaker 5: that lady has brought you nothing but heartache and pain.
Speaker 6: You deserve much better.
Speaker 5: That sounded good on the outside, but Hooseiah still loved Gomer.
Speaker 6: He grieved greatly over this loss.
Speaker 5: Years later he overheard from the town gossip that Gomer
Speaker 5: was still alive. She had been deserted by all the
Speaker 5: men that said they loved her.
Speaker 6: Now she had hit rock bottom.
Speaker 5: She was about to be sold as a slave. The
Speaker 5: scripture says, the Lord said to Joseiah, go get your
Speaker 5: wife again and bring her back home. After all the
Speaker 5: pain she had caused, after all the rejection, abandonment, you
Speaker 5: would think Joseiah would say, I am done with this lady.
Speaker 5: I am over with her. But Joseah had this undying love.
Speaker 5: He went back to the city and found her in
Speaker 5: the red light district on the auction block, about to
Speaker 5: be sold. She was beaten down, dirty hair, disheveled clothes,
Speaker 5: torn her head down in shame. He got up close
Speaker 5: and whispered Gomer. She looked up and couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5: He smiled and said, don't worry, I'm going to get
Speaker 5: you out of here. What was that promiscuous grace. It
Speaker 5: goes to unusual places. He went to the man in
Speaker 5: charge and said, that's my wife. I'm taking her with me.
Speaker 5: He said, you're not taking her anywhere. She belongs to me.
Speaker 6: She's for sale. You'll have to buy her.
Speaker 5: He took out his wallet and paid fifteen shekels and
Speaker 5: five barley loaves. He bought back what should have been already.
Speaker 5: His Hoseiah is a picture of God. Gomer represents you
Speaker 5: and me. All been unfaithful. We went our own way,
Speaker 5: did our own thing. But God, who is rich in mercy,
Speaker 5: when we turned our back on him, he had every
Speaker 5: right to walk away, but he didn't turn his back
Speaker 5: on us. He came down to the messy places, to
Speaker 5: where we felled, to where we should have been finished,
Speaker 5: and he brought us back, not with fifteen shekels, but
Speaker 5: with the blood of his own son. Since God has
Speaker 5: rescued us, Since he has brought us back, will you
Speaker 5: be a Hoseiah and buy somebody else back?
Speaker 6: Will you rescue them?
Speaker 5: They are hurting people all around you, broken people that
Speaker 5: don't think anyone cares. They're in messy places. They don't
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