2819 Church - WISDOM AND WONDER | Stretch Out Your Hand | Matthew 12:9-21 | Philip Anthony Mitchell

Episode Date: January 4, 2025

In episode two of WISDOM AND WONDER Pastor Philip A. Mitchell unpacks Matthew 12: 9-21 and reminds us to always STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND. Welcome to the official Youtube channel for 2819 Church. This channel features powerful and life-impacting messages from Philip Anthony Mitchell and guest communicators. As you listen to these sound biblical messages you can expect to be challenged, stirred, matured and inspired in your faith and walk with God. For more information about us visit 2819Church.org.

If you are a guest of 2019, we welcome you to our gathering, we welcome you to the presence of God, to all of our digital disciples watching me live right now in cities across the country and a few pockets around the world, we welcome you to our gathering. You're part of our family right across this camera. We know that you watch every week. We know that you are locked in. We know that many of you are also in some of our squads, our digital squads, our digital small groups. And so to all of our digital family in

cities around the country, man, we welcome you to our gathering. And if you are an unbeliever, you are not a follower of Jesus Christ, we welcome you to 2019. We know you're in the room and we're just glad that you're here and pray that a day will come where you would join us on this side of the fence for be God's will to pull you out of

darkness into this marvelous light. Two more things I just want to mention before we jump into the proclamation of God's word. I'm talking to you, our digital disciples and all of our family, everybody in Overflow. Shout out to everybody in Overflow. We see you. We're there with you right now. I'm about to address that. I just want to remind everybody, for 10 years, we have been a portable church. We've been out in the wilderness of sorts. We have no facility that belongs to ourselves, and we do our best to be good stewards of every facility we've been in and to be good roommates.

We support the school financially. We take care of staff and we do things like that. But we do feel in our hearts that the season has come for us to make a more aggressive push to have our own facility. I have failed in that regard, to be honest, as a pastor.

I've never done special offerings. I've never done the hundred dollar line to 50 i've never done any of that stuff okay and maybe i'm not the best person at raising capital i could confess that you know i don't think a lot about money i'm really concerned about the preaching of the gospel and i just pray that people respond that's what my father-in-law told me before he passed he said just preach the gospel and trust god to provide so i've never really been this dude trying to beg people to do stuff when it comes to finances. That's what my father-in-law, Lena's father, told me that before he passed.

He said, just be faithful in the preaching of God's word and trust God to provide without the people. So I've never been a manipulator, okay? But I did feel in prayer God told me to challenge the people to bring a special offering once a year and that we would use the accumulation of that offering towards gospel expansion every year and whatever was the need for the church we would try to meet that need that year with that offering okay we got 36 months on our contract and the goal is to raise the sum of some five million dollars in those 36 months so that we will be positioned to have our own facility i don't know where it is.

I don't have anything to put on the screen. I only got faith that there's something out there for us. And so on February 25th, I'm asking everyone in the room, everyone, every man, woman, and teenager to sacrifice any amount the Holy Spirit will put on your heart. I'm not even going to give you a dollar amount. I'm not even going to say do a thousand. No manipulation. And if this makes you feel uncomfortable, then don't do it. I'm talking to all of our digital disciples. You watch us across the country, man.

You eat from this house every week. And I know you're not physically here, but you can help us to be able to better serve you and have better technology. On February 25th, I'm asking you, would you join us

as we take up that offering on February 25th? You will sow yours from wherever you are, whatever city. We'll sow ours here. It will be all electronic. We don't pass buckets

because people used to steal out of the buckets, so we don't do that anymore. And we're going to take up our offering on February 25th, the month of love, when we first started doing outreach. And we're going to do that every year to accumulate

resources for gospel expansion. This year, for the next three years, we're doing that to be positioned for a building. Amen, everybody. For those of you who your child was supposed to be dedicated on the 18th or this month, we're sorry. We had to move it back because we're having a wonderful challenge. We have no more space anywhere. We have no more space in this room. We have no space in our overflow. We have no more space anywhere we have no more space in this room we have no space in our overflow we have no space in our parking lots we have outgrown this gathering to the glory of Jesus the Lord has done that and

in the last two weeks we we've turned away 100 cars. I don't even know how many people that amounts to. And for my staff and I, that's breaking our hearts that we had to turn away 100 cars in the last two weeks. We had to tell 100 vehicles we have no place for you and watch them drive away from the gathering. Those are souls that we didn't reach. And I take some responsibility for that.

That maybe I failed in not doing something about what's happening sooner, but this kind of just, the Lord just kind of poured out oil when we didn't expect it. And so what we want to do now is give God another jar. And so I'm asking everybody, if you've been turned away first, I want to be humble enough to apologize to you, and it's not our intention to turn anyone away, and if you've been one of those vehicles that we have had to turn away, we're deeply sorry, we apologize as a ministry, we should have been better prepared, we can't create parking lots, but we can create space. And so what we're gonna do within the next three weeks, if you just give us three weeks,

what we're asking for by February 11th is our deadline. We're trying our best to add another jar in the form of one or two things, either a second gathering, a second location. There is a facility five minutes up the street from here. Literally, if you go out our building, you make two lefts, a right and a left. I'm dead serious. See, I know it. It's in my mind. We was there for five years.

You make two lefts, a right and a left, and you bump into another school called Coretta Scott King. Okay, we gathered in that school for five years. We did ministry in that school for five years, and the principal reached out to us and asked us to come back. It's crazy. And she's asking this of us now while we have a need we were good partners with that school and she reached out to us and said would y'all come back other churches have tried to get in there we've told them no would y'all come back

and so our first option is either that second location, which we will create another gathering just like this at that location, five minutes from here, starting a half an hour after this one, so if you can't get into the parking lot here, you just drive to the other location, and there'll be another gathering there, so we have room for everybody, there's another 500 seats over there, and another parking lot over there. Literally five minutes up the street. So if you're sitting in overflow and you don't like that room, we got you. You won't have to be there come February 11th. You could be at the other location in an auditorium and there'll be a gathering there that starts at 11.

If that doesn't work out, we can't get that done in time. Because we got to add technology to that room. It takes money. They say, it's going to take prayer. No, it's going to take money. We're going to pray. Y'all do know when we came in this room, this was just a white concrete block. There's no painted stage, no screen, no lights, no sound, no wiring, no live stream, nothing.

Everything in this room we added. That booth, that control room we added, there was nothing in this room. You can't pray this into the room. There was no electricity. There's no way to live stream. We as a church had to put all of this in the room right and so we have to get that room ready if that's God's will we'll have that room ready by

February 11th God willing and that and if we can't get it ready we're going to add a second gathering here until we can get that ready I only need to ask you one question and I need everybody to get your phone. Okay. All right. There's a QR code that's going to come up on the screen behind me. I need you to scan the QR code and then I need you to tell me if we did a 9 and an 1130, which one would you come to? We need that data so we can make an informed decision about what we do next. Okay? I need everybody to scan the QR code behind me. And then all I need you to do on the little sheet is just tell me on your phone,

if we did a 9 or an 1130, which one would you come to? And just let us know. I don't know if that's on the screen in the overflow. If it's on the screen in the overflow, please do the same thing. If it's not, it is. It's on the screen in the overflow. If you're in the overflow, scan the QR code and just let us know if we did a 9 or 11 which one would you come to you know i can even get gangster right now get gangster if if if we did a 9 and you would come to that lift your hands somebody say yeah let's do that and if we did the 11 who would come to the 11 so that's like Moses it's like a split right down the middle all right so scratch the QR code let me see my nine o'clockers now don't don't lie to me and make us be here early and you don't show up.

And my 11 o'clockers, you want to sleep in a little bit and then come dip your foot in God's presence a little bit later. 11 o'clockers, let me see you. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. I love y'all. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. I love y'all. Perfect.

Options. I like that. Perfect. All right. Praise God. We need that data. Still do the survey anyway. Okay.

All right. Y'all ready for the proclamation of God's word? We are in episode two of a brand new teaching series called Wisdom and Wonder. This is a teaching series through Matthew 12 through 20. It will take us a year to get through this series. This is why we've broke it down into seasons and episodes. We're not trying to be super creative. I think sometimes preachers be too creative and then we be so creative we make the word of God of none effect. I think we need to just stop being creative and just preach the scriptures. Right? And the only reason we did this this somebody suggested this in a staff meeting was because we hate to say we're in week 48 of our series it's like so just seasons and episodes

every chapter is a season every message is an episode so season one is chapter 12 and every message in chapter 12 is an episode do y'all understand that? Because it's going to be a year long. Right? We're just in Matthew. We're tired. We're no entertainment. We're just walking through the word of God together. Okay?

And we want to see what God's word has to say to us. Amen, somebody. And if you're new to our church, we're fully expository. We read and teach. We read and teach. We read and teach. We line by line through the scriptures, and that's our flow, okay? And if you don't like that, then this is not

going to be the house for you. That's the way we flow, okay? So today, we're going to be unpacking Matthew chapter 12. We're going to be in verses 9 through 21, and if you're unfamiliar with Matthew, we don't want to presume that you know who he was he was a Jew who lived in the first century he worked for the Roman government he was hated by his people because he was an extortioner for money he was wealthy the Lord walked by his job one day and called him into ministry Matthew surrendered his life to the Lord Jesus Christ. He went into full-time ministry. It changed the direction of the whole trajectory of his life. He went on some

30 years after the resurrection of Christ in the AD 60s to write the book that bears his name, Matthew. The scriptures as we know them is the most read document, the collection of them, in the history of the world. And Matthew, placed first in the New Testament, forms a bridge from the Old Testament to the New Testament. It is the most read document in the history of the world. It's what the church used for 1,700 years of Christian discipleship. Okay? So we're going to be looking at Matthew chapter 12. And again, we'll study today verses 9 through 21, and

if you was here last week, we did Matthew 12, 1 through 8. This is the second half of one complete incident, so this is like part two of sorts. This whole thing we're about to read, all of it happened together with what we read last week. Are you with me? Okay. So we're going to tag a title to this text from the words of Jesus himself. We're just going to call this message, Stretch Out Your Hand. God, it's going to make sense when we get to the end. Stretch out your hand.

Stretch out your hand. God. Father, Father, in full humility I acknowledge my weakness. I throw myself on the altar of your grace. You saw my struggle this morning, this week.

They're ringing out of my own heart. They're dealing with my own sin. And I thank you in your love. You just, you confront us in your love because we are your children. and I just ask for strength and help to unpack these eternal truths in the word of God, your word. I pray for my brothers and sisters, every man, woman, and child under the sound of my voice. Those in overflow, those watching across the screen right now, those listening on audio. That you would arrest our attention, you would drive away every distraction, that we would lean in to be taught and not to be entertained. You would give us a revelation,

an insight, and knowledge from these holy scriptures. May we behold Christ in all of his wisdom. And may we not be in awe of a man. But Lord may we be more in awe of the Lord Jesus Christ. With every message. With every teaching.

May we peer into the wisdom of our Savior. And may we be in awe of him. May we behold him. May we see him like Isaiah did, high and lifted up. For some of us, when we have become familiar with our Savior, and familiarity has choked out wonder. Yes, I feel that it must restore to us wonder over the Savior. Rob us of familiarity.

Rob us, God, of familiarity. That even at the reading of the word, we would be in wonder over our Savior. I feel that in my spirit. I want my church family, God, to be in wonder over your son. More intimacy with Christ. Less infatuation with men. Breathe on us now,

spirit of the living God. Let your word come alive in our hearts, our conscience, and our souls. Let it quicken someone's spirit. I ask right now when the mighty

and the majestic, in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Man, if you agree with that prayer, would you just say amen? Amen. Thank you, Sam. Stretch out your hand. Family, this week I was in the gym and it was Monday. I had just got into the gym.

I just put my stuff in the locker room. And I walked out the locker room and I bumped into one of my gym buddies in there. I don't know his name, but we see each other every week. And so, you know, the gym I go to is small, so everything is like a community. I pray for the people in my gym. I pray for the salvation of their souls. I try my best to be a light in there. And this brother walked up to me when I was in the gym.

And he said to me, he said, yo, bro, it's good to see you. I haven't seen you in so long. I kind of fallen off for like three weeks, you know, the holidays, the fast and everything else. So I went back to the gym. And when he said to me, he said, know, you remember that sister that will be over there on the bike near the door? I said, yeah, I remember her. He said, she passed. He doesn't know that I know her. And I was like, yeah.

He said, man, she was such a wonderful human being. She had such a beautiful spirit. He said she was so kind and she was so loving and she was so friendly. And she said, that woman was my kid's teacher. And she has such an impact on my children. And he said, her name is Shakina. And I said, yeah, I know Shakina very well. Shakina is the wife of one of our executive staffers, Mr. Don Smith, who has not been here for three months. Because his beautiful wife slipped into eternity during the holidays. And we told Don, go away, take care of your sons and be away. As he's been grieving the loss of his wife, Shakina, who was one of our 2819 family members who slipped into eternity. She was in a battle against a sickness in her body.

And now she is in the presence of Jesus. She knows now more than anybody else how real Christ is. How loving she is, for she had finished her labor. She had ran her race, and she stumbled into the loving arms of her Savior, and although she was not physically healed in this life, she is completely healed right now.

And I thought about how that man, that brother was impacted by Shekinah's life. And I thought about how his children was impacted by Shekinah's life. That even in her absence, her fruit is still speaking in the earth.

It's why I've been shouting from this pulpit for years that we need to live well and love well and suffer well and live for when you leave. That you should live in such a way that when you come to that box, people have good things to say about you when you're gone.

Don't nobody care about how much money you had when you was gone? Ain't nobody asking about no 401k on a deathbed. The only thing that's going to remain when you was gone is the atmosphere or the witness you left, the impact you left in the hearts of men and women,

how you loved people and how you moved in the earth. And that is going to reverberate long after you're gone and you're not going to be here to change the opinion of people. And I was just thinking about how this woman's testimony

was so powerful that even though she's in glory right now, bless her soul, man, her fruit is I bumped into a brother in the gym who knew your wife. And he was talking about her heart and her character and how loving she was and how she impacted your children. And I was going on and on texting Don about how Shakina impacted this man. And then Don began to tell me, man, she was a beautiful person. She was a great partner, his spouse of 17 years. And he began to tell me, man, how broken he is still at her loss. How he has these bouts where he's good one moment, and he's battling deep grief the other moment.

And he's up and down, betwixt between these two worlds of trying to find joy in Christ, but feeling the pain of the loss of his wife. Man, the depth of being separated from someone you love, and your life was intertwined for 17 years. And I listened to my brother Don, who I love so much, kind of pour out catharsis. It was a catharsis of sorts, of the depth of his pain as he's missing my,

I can't even imagine my world without Lena right now. Man, our lives have been so intimately mixed for like two decades. Like to not have her here is unimaginable to me. And then I sit and I think about what my brother right now is going through. He's been gone for 90 days. And I said to Don, I said to Don, said to don i said you don you know what in all of this as i listened to you talk about your wife i thought to myself man the only reason you're suffering this is because of sin and i said just imagine if our pristine parents in that garden never touched

that forbidden fruit just imagine if sin never entered to the earth. Imagine if they never rebelled against God Almighty and that they lived in a permanent state in joy and bliss with God. But because of the sin of our pristine parents, sin entered into the world, death entered into the world. And now human beings have to feel the separation of people we love.

We have to battle with something that God never intended for the human heart to feel. He never intended for the human heart to feel separation from someone you love by death. It was never his will for us to be at funerals. It was never his will for us to be crying over our box with a loved one missing he never intended for the human heart to wrestle with a pain that deep and i said to don and he and i were talking to don the only reason you're feeling that right now is because of sin and i said to don i said don think about it man you feeling that right now because of sin? I feel stuff inside me I wish wasn't in there because of sin.

I think about all the people I hurt because of sin. I think about all the people that betrayed me because of sin. And I said to Don, this is why I hate sin, Don. I said, Don, I hate sin. And he and I was talking because I see how it has so deeply damaged the human race. It's why everything in me want to keep encouraging you to stop treating sin like a pet. The only pet sin is a viper waiting to choke the life out of you. It is sin inside of us, inside of you. That is the problem with the human race. It's

the source of all of our wars. It's the father that abandons a wife and her children. It's the murderer who plugs somebody in the street in Bankhead. It's the single mother who becomes a junkie and abandons her children. It's the teenagers that curses out their parents and are rebellious, the one that stand on the table at the restaurant. You say, little Timmy, get off of that table. I wish I could just beat him for you.

Begging little Jaquan to come off the table. I got another way to teach little Jaquan to come off the table. I got another way to teach little Jaquan. Don't beg children to do nothing. They're little sinners. Oh, you laugh. You laugh? The scripture says foolishness is bound up in the heart of the child

and it is discipline that drives it away from the child. So you can be anti-discipline all you want and then you wonder why children are cursing our parents at five years old. Because you got more trust in Google than in Proverbs. You're trying to parent your child

with Dr. So-and-so's philosophy instead of what the scripture says you know what the scripture says about children? side note, train up a child in the way they should go foolishness is in the heart of a child and the rod of correction will drive it from the child

a child left undisciplined brings shame to its parent you want me to keep going? it's all in the Proverbs little sinners need training it's your modern day parenting my parenting

thousands of years old it's proven you feel offended modern day parenting. My parenting thousands of years old. It's proven. You feel offended, but your kid is cursing you out. I'm not attacking you. I'm trying to steer you towards God's wisdom. Look at me. Every person in here that's ever felt insecure about anything, sin. Ever felt ashamed about something from your past, sin. Ever lost friendships and people you love, sin, divorce,

sin. All of the sufferings of human beings you keep pointing the fingers all this and the third the reason human beings are suffering is because of sin this is why i hate it so bad because i've seen the damage it's done in my own life in my own heart i see the damage it does in the lives of people i love I've seen sin wreck homes, wreck lives, wreck churches, put people in the box before their time. The human race is infected with sin, right? But of all the sin we're infected with, man, it was very few sin that made Jesus look people in the eyes and say, you brood of vipers.

I'm going somewhere with this. Or Jesus will look somebody in the eyes and say, you son of the devil. Imagine our Lord. You say, oh, don't talk to them like that. You're being judgmental. Every time we confront a false prophet, you say we're judgmental. That's why they're running loose. Every time somebody rise up and stand up for the church that call judgmental and that's why they running loose we don't have no accountability in the church and it was jesus man looked into the eyes of sinful men and said you brood of vipers imagine jesus saying that that's in there or walked up to men and said man you sons of the devil

how are you gonna escape hell that's coming for you can you imagine Jesus said that what kind of sin would drive Jesus to say that to a person he didn't say that to the woman caught in adultery I'm going somewhere he didn't say that to the rich young ruler. He didn't say that to Zacchaeus. But it was a group of men. God. Whose hearts were full of sin. When Jesus looked them in the eyes and said, y'all are a group of snakes.

And he looked them in the eyes and said, y'all are a group of snakes. He looked them in the eyes and said, y'all are sons of Satan. You know what kind of sin that was? One of the ugliest sins amongst the people of God. It is the sin of religious hypocrisy that lives in the heart of people who stand in my shoes those who call themselves pastors god and shepherds those who are responsible for being guardians of truth those who are responsible for representing god almighty and teaching people in the ways of God. Those who stand in my office and my shoes who are responsible

for teaching the truth and yet their hearts are full of the sin of religious hypocrisy and self-righteousness and legalism and pride to the point y'all are even blinded to the heart of God Almighty. You preach about a man you don't even know. You study the scriptures and you miss the person who's standing right in front of you.

It's ugly when preachers have an incongruency between what you preach and what's in your heart. It's an ugly thing to stand on a platform and declare to other people how they should live. And you are far away from that in your heart. It is a disgusting thing to strap the word of God on people's necks and add legalism on top of that. Turn away. Your heart is just as dark as the platform I'm standing on. Black. Today, that's many pastors in America

in the time of Jesus it was the Pharisees y'all remember them that religious group I taught you about last week who was a political party and a religious party who some of them sat on the Supreme Court in Jerusalem who had influence and power, who were responsible for being the teachers of Israel. And hearts full of the sin of religious hypocrisy and legalism to the point Jesus later on would tell them y'all are sons of the devil. Are you listening to me it is this

ugliness of sin that is sitting right here in our text is this tragedy of leadership that is sitting right here in our text is this exposure of the folly of bad religious leaders. They're all over our country that is sitting right here in the text. Matthew set it up for us. You remember this last week, Jesus, right, had sent out his followers to do ministry. At some point in time,

they come back and they meet together. They meet together. I'm sure they tell him the Lord about the things they did, the things they preach, the miracles they did. And as they're talking together, they are walking from one city to the next. Now, Matthew does not tell us where they are going,

but we know that they are on a journey. You remember this. And as they walked, they got hungry and God in his providence would allow them to walk through a grain field as they are traveling to some city that is not disclosed to us in the text. As they're walking through that grain field and I taught you if it was the grain field of a Jew God would teach the Jews to not

eat the corner of your harvest so you can leave it there as a gesture of generosity for the poor and for the foreigner and when people would eat of that grain they would see the generosity of God's people that he was teaching them from old days to be faithful percentage givers and as they walked through that grain field they were plucking heads of grain and then the pharisees I don't know why they're in the field saw them and said to the Lord why are your disciples doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath? And I read to you from the Old Testament that it was perfectly lawful to pick grain,

but that the Pharisees had added a book of like 30 extra laws to the Sabbath. And I told you that the purpose for the Sabbath, the day of rest, the day of worship, that's why God created six days. God created everything. The seventh day he rested, which is Saturday. Jesus rose on a Sunday, the first day of the week. So the Jewish Sabbath is Saturday. And on that day, God intended the people would

rest and worship, rest and worship, rest and be in awe of God. By the days of Jesus, I taught you, the Pharisees had loaded down the Sabbath with all these extra laws and regulations that made the Sabbath burdensome that the people needed a rest from the Sabbath. Jesus is confronted. Jesus defends his followers with the word of God have you not read have you not read have you not read he shows us that he is a student of the word of God side note every time they mention the word of God they're talking about the old testament when Jesus said he began with

Moses and taught them about himself he's talking about the old testament you can find Christ all the way through the Old Testament. That's why you shouldn't throw out the Old Testament. And then after they are confronted in that grain field, Matthew continues this complete narrative in Matthew chapter 12 and verse 9. Can I teach? Can I teach? he went on from there and entered into or entered their synagogue stop okay i want you to look at

this verse verse nine he went on from there and entered their synagogue i want to draw your attention to three words there there and synagogue okay it says he went on from there from where from the grain field so we know that watch jesus was traveling through that grain field on the way to an undisclosed city so he's leaving this grain field he just got into a full-blown fight with these pharisees over legalism the pharisees probably walk away and jesus and his followers leave from that grain field there and now they're traveling to a city and it says as they travel to that place they enter their ownership synagogue so So the very Pharisees that just confronted them, now the Lord is inside their synagogue. Did you pick up on that in the text?

The men who just confronted him in the grain field, he leaves from that confrontation and the very next place he goes is into their synagogue. Now what is a synagogue? The word synagogue in Greek, its original word simply means gathering. Whether secular or spiritual, it just means gathering. Over time, it would exclusively be tagged to Jewish gatherings. And what a synagogue was, was a meeting place for the Jews. They had a chief minister who was the leader of the synagogue and responsible for the scrolls that kept the scrolls in a shelf they had elders in the synagogue and the synagogue had only four functions its first function was to bring the Jews together in a house for corporate worship it was also for the reading and the exhortation of

scriptures. It was also to make sure they have a time of corporate prayer and the synagogue was used to teach little children. Sound familiar? It is out of Judaism. When Christianity emerges out of Judaism, the Christians would adopt that practices for our gatherings. That's why in our gatherings, there's times of worship. There's times of the reading of the Bible and exhortation, or at least there should be. Okay. There is times of prayer and there's times of teaching children so what we have today in our

christian judeo heritage in the way we do church that emerged out of the culture of the synagogue then in the 600s a.d muhammad when he filled that vacuum with the Arab nation and created Islam he would also adopt the same practices from the synagogue is why if you go into a mosque they have the same practices a time of worship a time of reading the Quran a time of prayer I don't know if they teach children I don't know okay I was a Muslim for a short season I never made it to a mosque I got frustrated not eating pork. I got frustrated at all the laws. I got frustrated at regulations.

I got frustrated praying five times to the east. I got frustrated with all of that. And I said to the person that was over me, I can't do this anymore. I'm going to the Chinese restaurant to get an order of pork fried rice and chicken wings. I quit. This is a true story. I quit Islam for a box of pork fry rice and chicken wings.

I'm keeping it 100. It was like religion, but I was dead on the inside doing all this stuff trying to appease some false deity but I was dead on the inside because in that faith you got to earn approval or appease the deity the question is how do you know you've done enough how do you know you've done enough you've been working your whole life to appease some false deity you never know you've done enough it's the beauty of christianity you can't appease God with morality and good works man the cross

has made you righteous do I got any saved people in the room right now any saved people in the overflow who have been made righteous by the cross of Christ not morality not good behavior

not perfect performance not legalism the cross of Christ and the propitiation of that grace that made me righteous in the sight of God almighty I'm thankful for the cross I wish I had just a hundred people

that was thankful for the cross come on man y'all got to stop forgetting what Jesus did for you on the cross, taking your unrighteousness and giving you his righteousness and making you right in the sight of God know you're thankful for the cross you know what it is to be a mess as a human being and God still see you as righteous you know what it is to fail God in your thoughts and in your behavior and God still see you as righteous? You know

what it is to fall short every single week and God still sees you as righteous? Man, I'm thankful for the cross. I'm thankful for the cross. Man, I got issues. I got stuff in my own heart. God is still ringing out. And I'm so thankful he don't just zap me

because I've sinned last week. Covered by the blood. I like that's old school. Anybody thankful for the blood. I like that's old school. Anybody thankful for the blood? We're not going to be prideful and self-entitled. No, we're thankful for grace through the cross of Jesus Christ. Not enough good behavior to be accepted by God.

Even Isaiah the prophet tried to free us from legalism when he said all of your good deeds are like filthy rags in God's sight. They no good, they no better than a tampags in God's sight. They know good. They know better than a tampon. That's what a filthy rag was. A tampon.

A Old Testament period cloth. He said all of your trying to be good to earn righteousness is no better than a tampon. Can't earn his love. Can't lose it, can't out sin his grace. Ain't no sin in this room stronger than the cross. It's not his blood plus anything. It ain't his blood plus good behavior or his blood plus morality.

It is Christ and Christ alone that was sufficient for my salvation. Every now and then I got to remind the believers that you're righteous because of the cross. So you don't start smelling yourself too much. You ain't got nothing to boast in except the cross of Christ. Somebody give God praise for the cross. You ain't got nothing to boast in. I'm so good.

No, you're not. You ain't got nothing to boast in except the cross. So Jesus, can I teach? Leaves the grain field. He travels to the city he was going to. And the very Pharisees that confronted him, he rose up in their synagogue. This is the stuff that made me be in awe of jesus like y'all hear that y'all be like oh see i read that and i think dang jesus wasn't done with them

like now i ain't finished with y'all yet he thugged out like that right i'm not finished with y'all yet I'm about to pull up on your synagogue now what I'm in here this is wisdom and wonder right we're trying to exalt Christ I'm in wonder of the fact the Lord ain't let them off the hook that easy that's trying to talk to me like I don't know the scriptures I'm the son of man I'm Lord of the Sabbath you know what I ain't done with y'all I'm about to pull up in your synagogue I ain't finished yet and then the scripture would teach us that watch it was his custom I like this word to always go to the synagogue oh god God. That means when the Sabbath came,

if a synagogue was near, Jesus was always in God's house. Come on, come on, come on. Let me repeat. When the Sabbath came, if a synagogue was near, Jesus was always in God's house. He set an example for us to prioritize the gathering of God's people.

Sabbath did not pass and Christ was not in a synagogue. I'm tired. I'm going to be in this gathering. I'm going to be in this gathering. I'm going to be in this virtual gathering. When our day of worship come, I'm going to find myself in God's house. That was the example my Savior set for me. The scripture says it was his custom to go to the synagogue. Verse 10. Verse 10. and a man was there with a withered hand.

And they, the Pharisees, asked him, Jesus, this makes me angry, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him? Stop. Now, when I read this this week in my study time, I read this to myself and I just burst into tears.

I burst into tears crying because I feel like one of the things that we have done bad, poorly in our generation is that when we read the scriptures, we read the scriptures like these people are fairy tales. We don't think about the historicity of these human beings that we're reading about. I've seen some of y'all in the spirit.

You'll watch something on the news and seen something bad happen to somebody and your heart will be broken. You've read about something that happened in the news and your heart will be broken. This is why I've taught our communicators, don't refer to people in the scriptures as characters because when you hear the word character, you think fictitious. You think some bedtime story. Ain't nothing about the scriptures a bedtime story. These ain't fables. The scriptures is a collection of 66 ancient historical documents, poetry, and psalms. And when we read about these people in the scriptures, we're reading about real human beings who lived and died, men and women and children like you and me. Now let me bring you back to the text with a human heart. They are in the gathering of the saints.

We're in a room. Christ and his disciples are in the room. The Pharisees, who are supposed to be the teachers of the law, watch. The Pharisees, who are supposed to be the pastors of the people, are in the room. And they see a man in the congregation who has a deformity. God, man, this frustrates me. He has a wizard hand. And they try to use a man with a deformity as a prop for an argument.

Never mind the man is suffering. Never mind he has a deformity. Never mind he's probably embarrassed because there's deformity. They don't even care about this man. The only thing they care about is using somebody's weakness as a prop for their argument. God.

How sinful. How legalistic. How cold hearted is that? It said the man had a withered hand. The word withered in his original language told me there was no life in his hand. No blood. It shriveled up.

He has a handicap. We don't know his name, but we know he's a Jewish male. Does he have a family? If he does, how can he work with a withered hand? Some cultural narratives tell us that he injured that hand in a construction accident. And if that's the case, that means he could not work.

Is he begging for money? Is he fighting to take care of his family? Is he dealing with the embarrassment of having a deformed hand? I'm sure he's walking around with his hand in his cloak. He no different than many of us in this room who got issues we try to hide. Things in our heart we don't want nobody make we don't want nobody to make fun of. Physical deformities. Physical ailments. Things we wish God would fix physically that is not good. Things in our heart. Things in our mind. Could you imagine being in a church

where a pastor found out about something you was dealing with. And instead of caring about how to help you. He used you in a sermon as a prop. To argue a cause. God. Do you know how hurt you would be? Do you know how broken. If the pastor talked about your size. Your waist.

Some physical ailment you have on your body. If the pastor used some hurt you have on your body. If the pastor used some hurt that happened in your heart, some stuff, you rest in my feet, use that as a prop to just prove a point without even caring about you as a person. Do you know how you would feel in that moment?

You would feel dehumanized. Yo, enter so many of us who stand in this platform. Men and women of God. God. Who do ministry but don't care about people. I'm so serious about this. Man, this joint breaks my heart to see people who lead

and preach in ministry and it's only about a platform. It's only about a dollar. It's only about titles and outfits and all this stuff, but you don't give a darn about people. These Pharisees, these pastors, you're all about your phylacteries.

You're all about your robes and your long dresses. You're all about trying to be righteous in the sight of people. You're all about approval and all this stuff, but you don't give a darn. I wish I could use another word, but y'all gonna crucify me because I'm in the South.

I'm from New York. I just want to say it one time. I don't give a... Don't give a... it's not a curse word in Queens only in the south y'all made it a curse word it flushed right the heck out of me I can say darn right you do in ministry and don't give a darn about people pray for me I'm on a work in progress too

I want to frustrate the heck out of you. I can use a different word. To have people who stand in the office of spiritual leader and you really don't care about human beings. It's all about money. It's all about a title. It's all about a platform. And all about a platform and some of us have been underneath shepherds like this who are abusive who are tyrannical who is all about this status they're trying to climb some spiritual ladder trying to get to some mountaintop in ministry so lame and a room is only to stroke your ego. But you don't really look into the eyes of a Janelle and love her. Or look into the eyes of a Danielle and love her.

Or Rhonda or Erica or Elder Eric and love them. You're preaching as to what end? Our ministry, if you're in ministry and don't love people you should get out of it i'm talking to everybody now if you're in ministry and you don't love people you should get out of it so you have ministry and you think platform. The word ministry means minister, which comes from service.

And here it is, this suffering man with this withered hand, like some of us are suffering. Just imagine being in a church where you're going through and the leader cares nothing about your ailment. You are just a prop, a pawn for an argument.

No humanity, no decency, no caring about the fact that this man has been suffering for God knows how long. Probably embarrassed, ashamed, probably struggling financially, can't work watch this everybody watch and where is this happening watch for everybody to hear and see so now i take your personal issue and i take your personal issue your problem and i put you on display in front of everybody i don't even care how that makes you feel i take something you told your problem, and I put you on display in front of everybody. I don't even care how that makes you feel. I take something you told me last week,

and I put it on display in front of everybody. I don't care how it makes you feel. We know about some deformity, something don't work, and I put you on display. This is happening in a room full of people. I'm sure it's quiet, and now everybody is staring at this man. Now all of the focus is on him. How embarrassing is that?

Is that love? Is that pastoral ministry? Is that caring for other human beings? Have you ever acted like that with somebody who was going through something? Yes, you have. Yeah, you have seen people going through and don't care about them

just want to use them to make a post there's the man I'm almost done with the withered hand everybody's staring at him in the room the pharisees at their high seats they know christ had his eyes on him because he had this habit of getting close to people who have need check the scene the room is quiet everybody's watching the man is in the middle he's embarrassed the pharisees like we got jesus now what you're going to do you know according to our laws you can't heal on the sabbath because according to their laws you can't do good for human beings on the sabbath except there was in danger of death not God's laws their laws their legalistic laws according

to their legalistic laws you cannot help anyone on the Sabbath except they were in danger of death now Jesus was not a lawbreaker what is he supposed to do now what's the next verse? I'm almost done. And watch the wisdom of Christ. He says to them, gosh. See, I just want us to read the scriptures and be in awe of Jesus. All right, watch.

I know y'all laws say I can't help a person except they're in danger. Your laws say that, okay? Let me except they're in danger your laws say that okay let me tell you something else about your laws he says and which one of you

who has a sheep if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath will not take hold of it and lift it out how much more valuable is a man than a sheep so it is lawful i'm going somewhere to do good on the sabbath god so powerful you want to try to trap me with your loss let me give you back

your loss their laws once said you can't help an animal on the sabbath but when they realized not helping animals was affecting their money god this is so good because sheep was part of their economy so they changed their own laws to make sure if a sheep was in trouble or livestock was in trouble. I don't want my money affected, preacher. So we're going to bend our own laws to rescue animals in trouble for our own good

but not human beings. So you only want to change when it comes to your pockets but you don't want to change when it comes to the life of a human being. You only preach because it's about your pockets. God. God.

But you don't give a darn about human beings. So by the time Jesus comes, they bend their own laws to be able to help animals because it affected their money, their economy. And Jesus would say to them, how is it? Watch this. I'm coming for y'all you care more about an animal y'all take good care of your dogs and your cats how is it you care more about a creature than the highest thing God ever created on the earth how is it some of y'all will fight for animal cruelty and eat veggie burgers, but you don't love human beings? How are you going to be a vegan

and hate people at the same time? In other words, how do you care more about anything tangible more than you care about your brothers and sisters on your road and how do you preacher care more about a building a crowd dollars or a budget more than you actually care about the souls in the chairs

so the Lord would rebuke them and would say to them, is not a human being and their suffering more valuable about the tangible things you put your trust in? Watch. I'm almost done.

Then he says it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. That is when you have an opportunity to do good. Do good. I'm talking to you now. Look at me. When the spirit of God moves on you to do good, don't put that off to next week.

You don't know what's going to happen to that person next week. The Lord is tapping you. Say, give them the car. He's tapping you and says, pay their bills this month. He's tapping you and says, bring that single mother groceries. When you feel the tap of the Lord moving on you to do good, don't put that off. When it is lawful to do good, watch. Do good.

The best time to do good is in the moment the Spirit move on you to do good. It is lawful to do good. You see what Jesus is saying? He says, man, I want you to show compassion for human beings who are in need. Church, you know how ugly it is for people to call themselves Christians and have no compassion for people who are suffering? I'm talking to y'all now. Forget the Pharisees.

Do you know how ugly it is to be posting all the time? For people who are suffering. I'm talking to y'all now. Forget the Pharisees. Do you know how ugly it is to be posting all the time? God first. Woman of God. Proverbs 31 woman. But you walk past a brother begging for a dollar at the Walmart. You're too good to give him something. You don't want to get touched.

He's too dirty for you. He might rub off on your fendi pants. I'm talking to y'all now. We Christians, but we have no compassion. And what the Lord is trying to teach us is that he wants people to be compassionate. To go beyond legalism. That love should be greater than legalism. And compassion is what we move towards with people in need. So look what Jesus does.

What verse are we on? Okay, you're paying attention. About to finish this text. Then he said to the man, everybody watch this. I love this. Stretch out your hand. God. stretch out your hand there's the title of our text why'd I pick that title Jesus said to the man stretch out your hand why'd I pick that title everybody look at me his hand is withered we don't even know if he can stretch it out

it's going to make sense in a second but when the Lord speaks anything he tells you to do, grace will follow for you to do it. We don't even know if he can move that hand. The Lord don't even touch him. Since it's the Sabbath and I can't work,

I don't even got to touch you to heal you. The Pharisees ain't going to catch me lifting a finger. Since I'm Lord of the Sabbath, I can prove it by not even lifting a finger to work. You won't even trap me to lift a finger to work. Since I'm Lord of the Sabbath, I can prove now that I'm God in the flesh I say to you with the wizard hand man stretch out your hand that if I tell you to do something,

there's grace behind that for you to do whatever I'm telling you to do. Man, stretch out your hand. Start the ministry. Write the book. Be healed in this area. Forgive that person. Let that go.

Get over that. Whatever he tells you to do, stretch out that person. Let that go. Get over that. Whatever he tells you to do. Stretch out that hand. There's grace to do that. He says to the man. Stay there Frank softly. I'm about to finish this message. Stretch out your hand.

He proves that he's Lord of the Sabbath. He's the son of man. He's Yahweh. He's God in the flesh. I don't even got to lift a finger to break the laws of the Sabbath. Since y'all said we can't work on it I'll talk on it I won't even touch this man y'all ain't gonna trap me for working brother stretch out your hand there's grace to do whatever God calls you to do there's healing in the word that comes from Jesus. And symbolically for y'all on the other side of the withered hand, when I hear stretch out your hand, I hear be compassionate towards others.

Man, stretch out love. Stretch out compassion. Man, stretch out mercy. Do what God tells you to do, but also stretch out your hand towards others. Man, stretch towards Jesus for your needs, but then stretch towards others for their needs. Give away the car. Pay the person's bills.

Give the homeless man a dollar. Buy somebody food. When I'm in line, I pay for the food of the person behind me. Man, stretch out your own hand. Receive from the Lord. And give away in the name of the Lord. He spoke it. There's grace to do Lord. He spoke it. There's grace to do it.

He spoke it. There's grace to do it. Some of y'all sitting there withered in some place. Withered in your heart. Withered in your mind. Withered in your feet. Man, stretch out your hand.

This is the year. Man, stretch out your hand. Start the YouTube channel. You hear the God. Man, stretch out your hand. Start the YouTube channel. You hear the God, you hear the Lord whispering to you. Man, stretch out your hand. For some of you, that stretch is a stretch of healing on the backside of forgiveness. It's the stretch of an open door on the backside of obedience. You worry too much. Don't trust in the path that you can't figure out A to Z. Trust in his character. My faith is not in I got it all figured out. My faith is in the character of the one who said stretch out your hand. What if the guy with the withered hand would have been like,

but it's been withered for so long, I don't know if I could do it. Don't argue with me. Man, stretch out your hand. Stretch it out. Stretch it out. And as he stretched out his hand it was restored healthy like the other one but the pharisees the sinful hypocritical sin infected pride infected self-righteous. Infected legalism.

Infected. I'm closing. How do they respond? You would think hearing about somebody's testimony. The pastor would be happy. But because you wasn't at the center of it. You can't give God glory. They miss that.

Because you wasn't at the center. Because you can't get credit for it you don't want to give god glory so how do they respond to the miracle but the pharisees went out conspired against him how to destroy him this would be the beginning of the downfall of their motives that would eventually put Christ on the cross. It starts here. And let me read to you these last verses

and pay attention. Jesus, aware of this, aware of what? That they was trying to kill him. He withdrew from there. Why did he do that? Because you got to know sometimes, can I say something? You got to know sometimes how to avoid unnecessary trouble. But watch, everybody watch this. But sometimes you got to know how to step into good trouble. It's a preacher. I don't understand that. Watch. What day did this happen?

Now watch. When I'm reading the scriptures and I'm praying, softly, Frank, I put myself in a text and I pray to Jesus. I said, Jesus, how did you feel that day in that synagogue? This is the way I pray when I'm reading the scriptures. I'd be like, Lord, what was it like? How did you feel that day in the field when they attacked? Because my my mind i put myself there i might have a pictorial mind now think about this what day did this happen everybody watch this what day did this happen it's sabbath now watch it's the sabbath right it's against the legalistic laws right all jesus had to do was wait 12 hours to the next day. He could have healed the man the next day. Then he would have no issues with the Pharisees.

Watch. He could have... He could have waited to the next day. And he would have no issues if he healed the man the next day but when you know to do good sometimes you gotta have the testicular fortitude the balls the courage to step into spaces where somebody got to take a stand for biblical righteousness. Against legalism and against false doctrine. If he waited to the next day, the Pharisees would have had glory in their legalistic laws.

But the Lord said, no, I will not wait. I'm going to blow up your legalism right now. So watch. He steps into the space of somebody suffering on the Sabbath. Now sometimes you got to know how to get into good trouble. Sometimes you got to know how to step into a space to make a stand for what is right in the sight of God. We can't always cower from every battle. We can't always be quiet in every moment. Sometimes you got to know how to get in good trouble,

to stand up, to raise up a standard of righteousness, to cry aloud from the rooftop and spare not. Jesus could have waited to the next day. No. He steps into this man's suffering. He steps into, like we have to learn to step into other people's suffering, but sometimes we gotta know

how to step into good trouble. You see it and it aggravates you. Man, say something about it. Little Nas X, praying for him. Man, say something about it little nas x praying for him man say something about it why do we allow the devil to control the narrative where are the people of god where are the men and women that's going to stand for righteousness? Where the men and women are going to step into difficult spaces? Not waiting till tomorrow. I'm taking a stand for Christ today. I'm taking a stand from this platform today. I'm speaking out against evil today. I'm speaking out against evil in my own heart and the hearts of other pastors today. I'm stepping into those hard conversations today.

I'm going to be a voice for righteousness today. I'm going to be a voice for the Lord Jesus Christ today. I'm going to step into the suffering of people I love today. I'm going to help the whisper of the sister who God told me, help her today. I'm going to do good today. I'm going to speak up today. I'm going to do good today. I'm going to speak up today. I'm going to take a stand.

I'm going to take a stand. Yeah, I know you think it's just a sermon I know you want to leave verse 15 softly Jesus aware of this withdrew from there and many followed him

and he healed them all they saw what he did to the man in the withered hand and they followed him why because when you see what the Lord has done in someone else's life man it gives you faith to believe he can do something in your life so they saw a man

stretch out his hand and they thought to themselves, man, I got to get some of that too. So they followed him. That's all right, let them cry out. This was, watch, to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah. So Matthew, who's writing to a Jewish audience,

he writes his gospel to prove that Christ is the Messiah who the Jews today have still rejected. So in his gospel, he will keep inserting Old Testament passages to prove to his Jewish audience that Jesus is the Messiah. So he says, everybody watch carefully. Behold, my servant whom I have chosen. This is God talking about Christ. My beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. So how could Jesus be 85% out of order? Come on.

Y'all like listening to bad doctrine from false prophets who say stuff like Jesus is 85% out of order? How can he be out of order when the father says my soul with him is well? Please, when was Jesus ever out of order? But he lived a perfect life. How could God in the flesh ever be out of order more Bible less infatuation with men more scriptures less infatuation with men it's impossible for Jesus to have been 85% out of order when he lived a perfect life

from birth to crucifixion. I, the father says, will put my spirit upon him. That's a Trinitarian verse. The father speaks about the son. And about the spirit. I the father. Will put my holy spirit upon him. Christ. This is Isaiah writing 700 years. Before Christ was born. And he will proclaim justice.

To the Gentiles. Everybody watch. Because you're in this verse. You're in this verse. You're in this verse. He will not quarrel or cry aloud. That is, he ain't arguing with foolish people. Watch. Nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

Ain't acting a fool in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break. A reed was little straws on the side of rivers that was very delicate, meaning the Lord will not hurt people unnecessarily. It's so powerful. Watch, you're in this verse. A smoldering wick he will not quench.

He'll be gentle and kind. Now, everybody watch. Until he brings justice to victory. And here you are in the verse 700 years before Christ. And in his name name the Gentiles God God oh my God in his name the Gentiles will hope he's talking about you 2,700 years before you was born the prophet Isaiah wrote about you. He said, in the name of Christ, the Gentiles will hold. Preacher, I don't get it. Jesus came for who first? The Jew. But what happened? They rejected him.

And because the Jew rejected him, what happened? He turns from the Jew and says, let the gospel now go to all non-Jewish people. That's you. Black people and white people and Asian people, everyone who's not a Jew, the gospel comes to you because of the rejection of the Jews. And then Isaiah prophesied that in his name, the Gentiles will find hope.

Until when? Until the tribulation period come and then god has raptured the church and then he turns his attention back to the jewish nation daniel prophesies about this john the revelator wrote about this right now we're living in the time of the gentiles where god is reconciling a people to himself from all around the world even saving messianic Jews who having dreams and visions about him that in these last days he's gathering men from all nations tribes and tongue and putting them aboard the ark of safety he's going to keep winning the hearts of the Gentiles until he turns his attention back to the Jews in the great tribulation but for right now is the era of grace.

And today is the day of salvation. And my prayer for you, those who claim the name of Christ. Is that we will love people. We will be compassionate towards people. We will blow up legalism. We will do good when the opportunity comes for us to do good. We will care more about people than our rules and our regulations. That is my prayer for you.

Every head bowed, every eye closed, nobody move. Prayer team is coming to the altar. Because I got to speak to someone who before the foundation of the world, the Lord already chose you to be his. I'm just telling you what's happening right now in your spirit and in your heart. You feel something warming your heart right now. You've been shedding tears as the word has been proclaimed. Come, Lena.

My brother, my sister, my sister, you are a sinner and so am I. You have broken God's laws and so have I. And the scripture says if anyone dies in their sin, they're going to be separated from God for all eternity. But the Lord in mercy for you sent his son, Christ, the Savior, who died a sacrificial death in your place. And then he said, if any man would turn away from their sin, place

their faith in Christ, he already knew you would say yes to him before you were born. I just want to confirm what he's doing in your heart. I'm talking to you, sister. He's regenerating you right now. I'm talking to you, brother. He's saving you right now. No magic, no pixie dust, no special prayer is happening apart from me. If you feel God wooing you to yourself right now, saying, my daughter, come. You belong to me. My son, come. You belong to me. I'm saving you right now.

I knew you would be here. I knew you would be listening. I knew you would be watching. You belong to me. Today is the beginning of the rest of your life. You walk out of here a brand new man, a brand new woman. You repent. You're turned away from your sin.

The Lord is filling you with his spirit. I want to pray for you. If I'm talking to you, you feel God working in your heart. He's saving you like he did for me on the bathroom of a floor. Preacher, pray for me. Seal in my heart what's happening. I'm running to Christ right now, throwing myself at the foot of the cross. On the count of three, I just want to see who you are. One, the Lord is already calling you. Two, today is the day of salvation. Three, throw your hand

up in the air saying, preacher, pray for me. I see that hand. I see that hand. I see that hand. I see that hand. I see those hands. I see those hands. I see those hands. You know what?

Everybody stand up. If you got your hand up, you'll slide out of that row. Tell the person next to you, get out of my way. I want y'all to come down here. I want to talk to you. Tell the person, get out of my way. I want y'all to come down here. I want to talk to you. Tell the person, get out of my way. Y'all celebrate right now what Jesus is doing in the hearts of people who he is bringing to himself.

Come on. Run down here. If you're in the overflow room, run over here right now. Come close. Come close. Come on. Celebrate. Come close.

Come close. Come close. Come close. come close. Come on, celebrate. Come close. Come close, come close, come close. Come close. If you're in the Oval Room, run over here right now. Come close. Come close, come close, come come close come close come on cry out to your Savior right now cry out he's saving you right now cry out If you're in the overflow room, run over here. If you're in the overflow room, run over here. Reckless love of God. Oh, it takes its speed out. Why still love the breeze tonight

And I don't deserve it But you give yourself away Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God We'll be ever ready Let this love go There's no shadow you won't light up Mountain you won't climb up Coming after me There's no wall you won't kick down Night you won't lay down

Coming after me There's no shadow you won't light up Mountain you won't climb up Coming after me There's no wall you won't kick down No wall you won't say down Coming after me. Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, endless love of God.

Oh, it takes its feet to find still life that leaves the night denied. I'll fight still, I'll fight least at 99 I could hurt you, I don't serve you But you give yourself away Oh, the overwhelming, overwhelming Reckless love of God me if you're at the altar please don't look at me he's catching those tears my sister he's catching these tears my brother he's catching these tears my sister he's catching these tears my sister he's

catching those tears my sister now one He's catching these tears, my sister. He's catching those tears, my sister. Now one of them falls to the floor. He's catching those tears. He's catching those tears, my brother. Please don't look at me. This is just, he's catching those tears, my sister. This is your moment, you and Jesus. It has nothing to do with me.

Just let him work in your heart. It's regeneration happening. The Lord knew you would be here before the foundation of the world. He predestined this moment for you. He's catching these tears. That's repentance. Don't worry. He feels that. It's okay. He feels all of that. You it's okay he feels all of that you can cry

he feels all of that not one of those tears are going to hit the floor not one of these tears are going to hit the floor it's okay cry that's all right cry sister that's that get it out that's called repentance what you feel in your heart is the fire of the holy spirit warming your soul right now cry let it out this happened for he Oh, that's repentance right there, brother. That's right. Let it out. Real men cry. This happened to me on the floor of a bathroom.

When I was suicidal, the Lord rescued me in a bathroom. Come up, Sam. Come up, Frank. He's catching those tears, sister. She's broken. That's called repentance. Yes, it's okay.

You're his daughter now. You're his daughter now. He knew you would be here. He ordained this moment for you before you were born. Somebody move this out of my way. Don't look at me. And now eternal God and ever wise Father.

We thank you God. For the regenerating power of your Holy Spirit. We thank you Lord that by your sovereign power, you are saving and filling and regenerating. No man can do this, God. It's your sovereign work before the foundation of the world. I thank you, God, that these are your new sons and daughters. These are our new brothers and sisters.

May they be filled with your spirit may they be alive in the spirit lord i pray they will love you more than anything else in this life they will run after you with their whole heart they will see you like isaiah did high and lifted up i pray today will be the beginning of the rest of their lives that after today they'll never be the same joy comes to them peace comes to them salvation is this yes brother he's catching those tears I thank you God for repentance and now you said when one sinner repents all of heaven rejoices the father we were