2819 Church - You Have Help | Arik Hayes

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

In Sunday’s powerful standalone message, Elder Arik Hayes reminded us, we have help. From scriptures like Ephesians 5:1 and Romans 8:34, we were urged to imitate God as beloved children and to never underestimate the power of our Helper; the One who pleads, strengthens, and stays with us.

Greetings and welcome to 2019 Church beloved. How y'all doing? My name is Eric Hayes, I'm one of two elders here Thank you. God bless you. We we are a church as a house of prayer presence and proclamation And we intend to stay that way you hear me It's my special shout out to the Overflow. It's my second time preaching up here in the new building. There you go, y'all are a lot closer. Good to hear y'all.

Love y'all, family. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. I welcome to our online community, the Digital Disciples, whether you are tuning into a recording live around Georgia, other parts of the country, other parts of the world. We recognize you. We love you guys.

Amen. And last but not least, welcome to the unbeliever. This is indeed a place. This is indeed a place. Where you can belong before you believe, right? All right, we want you to keep coming around. Yeah, yeah, I think it's good for a church

when people that don't know how to know when to raise their hand and when to sit down and know the church protocol. I like them coming up and messing up the program. Right, you got unbelievers around, it probably is a good sign that somebody cares about preaching the gospel. Don't get me wrong, believers,

we definitely benefit from hearing the gospel, right? But the mission is to preach the gospel under right? But the Come to a saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ And the eternal life would start now and continue in eternity so welcome unbelievers All right and like always I Let's make it a practice man to honor the pastor of this Elesia, Philip Anthony Mitchell. You may say, well, why are you doing that? Why are you standing up as the pastor? Listen, the scripture talking about, although I want to say it's a monetary sense right there,

but give honor to whom it is due. It says double honor in that context I was talking about. Right? Right? And I know more because I am now, I'm an elder, right? I have four children, I have a wife, right? I have bills, amen. And they keep on coming, you hear me, beloved?

I'm concerned about the flock as well. Okay, so I know more of what that looks like I'm concerned about the flock as well. Okay. So I know more what that looks like at my view. Now with his view to be leading what most are calling a revival, it comes with some weight beloved. It comes with some arrows being pointed at you. It just comes with satanic attacks, okay?

Can we just keep it real here? It comes with attacks from within the body. It should not be so, but it is so. I gotta fight my brother and sister to push the gospel. That's evil. Right? And even though encouragement or discouragement you know, may hit your soul, you can't let it stop you

because we care about you guys. We care. We care. We care. Right? So I always, I want to say in my heart to honor him for keeping his hand to the plow, regardless of what hits him. So I just want to do that.

And as a church we are continuing to walk through the book of Matthew in a series we titled entry and end times however, I've been given the assignment to deliver a standalone message today and At this time we do not have a title for it, but we're gonna preach the word of the Lord amen Okay so a quick story time I'm actually a part of what I would call like a Forgotten generation right so now my children are part of generation alpha then it was Gen Z Then it was the Millennials and then a lot of times people just jump all the way to I saw somebody put up a

Millennials y'all God bless you right that's most of you right and then y'all jump all the way to baby boomers Right God bless y'all too and y'all forget generation X in the building okay this is beautiful because like for 10 years like everybody in our church is 20 years old everybody right so we get some more multi-generational jumps right so and and if you came up in that time period you were almost forced to deal with someone with the initials MJ oh you were forced you were forced just by way of media now check me out I say MJ some of y'all may have thought of one person some of y'all may

have thought of someone else and some of y'all bought a thought of two right so I'm actually talking about two people it was Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson right right I remember on dating myself here right I remember watching a floor model TV and if either one of them came on the screen you were glued that's back when you had one TV per house so wasn't like can I go over here watch that? Absolutely not That's about to get a beating trying to change the tv Right And these brothers they they they they captivated us With their talent and their hard work

Right so much so that people have modeled themselves after them, right? So even even the late great Kobe Bryant, he was like, I would say, the living embodiment to an extent. But even after the way he talked and walked, turn around over the shoulder, jump shot, the whole deal, he was like Michael Jordan. And actually, one of my favorites, I'm an ex dancer ex dancer 80s dancer, right 2000 up the way they're dancing that's different, right? So I

Used to I used to watch them like this is in the age of the video, right? You didn't drop a song without a video a visual companion to go with the song. Y'all know nothing about that, right? Right? And I remember watching it was we were talking back there the video, Smooth Criminal. Yeah! Check me out. It's someone almost bust out head. How in the world did he lean at a 45 degree angle like that? He was killing it. I'm like, oh, oh you saved me. I'm doing it. Check me out Right Right and whether it was Michael Jordan or Michael Jackson, man, we most of us cheered man. Oh, man Mike's amazing. See that shot. You see how he scored 48 like

You see Mike man, you see him you so and and and before I go on have any of y'all seen Michael Jackson do a moonwalk Some y'all too young y'all need to go check YouTube and check it out this brother He used to slide and glide like he had on skates like us. He's on skates now Mike had no skates He would actually slide and glide and like he wouldn't move above the knee y'all think I'm gonna try it I'm not try to hike the elder up I'm right here fall negative I did get pretty good at it back in the day but nevertheless right but that's that's you saw him glide, right?

And although most of us, like, we did cheer and we recognized them really as the GOATs at least of their era. We could have the mic and Kobe or LeBron debate another time. Another time, all right. But we cheered them when they score, when they dance, right? But some of us took it a little further, right? You were such in awe of what they showed you. Part of it was marketing too, right?

Because they got brands to push them as the face of things. So part of how big we think they are was because they were pushed right there was an agenda to do so right it made everybody money so so not only do we look at them we beheld them didn't we want you to sit there and just look at him. Just, oh man, you see. Oh. I want to be like Mike. Oh, you might be in the spirit, sister. Right? Oh man, you see that new video that Mike dropped?

The way you make me feel? I'm going to move on because I want to do the kick. But check me out. I want to do it. I'm gonna move on cuz I want to do the kick but check me out. I want to do it I'm not. A lot of us went out and tried to do the very things that we saw them do right. We couldn't really jump we was out there trying to do the layup package right. Some of us couldn't really dance when we out here trying to do what Mike did and we failed miserably unless you you really, really worked at it. And you worked at imitating that person that you beheld.

Similarly, when we come into a relationship with God, although it is amazing when we come into the experience with other believers and we clap our hands, that's biblical, y'all. That's amazing. When we clap our hands, that's biblical y'all. That's amazing. When we jump for joy, that's biblical y'all. That's amazing. When we shout with a voice of triumph

when we do that thing, as Pastor Exorcius used to do, that's beautiful y'all. But the question is, do we act like God? Do we act like him I would call that the deeper part of worship When you literally behold him so much you behold him so much that you actually have your nature changed in his presence. And you know what's beautiful about hanging out in the presence of the Lord? Some of it is effortless. If I hang around you long enough, I'm gonna start saying your slang, you're gonna start saying mine. Right? We're gonna rub off on each other. Isn't it a beautiful thing when God can rub off on us? Woo, in his presence.

Because the veil is rent and we've been ransom, we can hang out with him without fear and he can just rub off on us. Oh, I wanna be changed by him. That he would just rub off on me. His son. As I think about that, go and put that picture up. All right.

I love y'all, cause I did not want to use this picture. All right So just for the record we looking at this handsome guy on the right Okay, and if you look at him He's looking at his father And he's trying to mimic him Emulate copy It doesn't even make sense for a one-year-old to have their hand on their chin right there Why is he even doing that because he sees his father? He has be held his father

He's not old enough to have a mind process to be like, oh, I should be doing this. No, no, no, he's just mimicking what he sees. Take that down. Can I tell you in the New Testament, Christ said himself himself I only do what I see the Father do. So it's along those lines Paul drops this bombshell on us at least I think it was you way. Throw up Ephesians 5 for me. Paul says in Ephesians 5.1 he says, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children. Amplified says, therefore become imitators of God. Copy him and follow his example as well beloved children

imitate their father Can I tell you something even at the time we have a good relationship at the time me my stepdad did not have a good Relationship I started driving with my left hand on my right above my knee And somebody say that's how you're supposed to drive? They surely didn't teach me that in driver's ed. I happened to observe him. And I started doing it automatically. So my question to you is, if I were to imitate you, would I need the Holy Spirit to be able

to do it? No, no, no, check me out. If I were to imitate you as a disciple of Jesus Christ, would someone need to get saved and come into the kingdom to be able to do what you do? Right? Because we move from just praising the Lord here with our hands raised which is amazing right don't hear me condemn that because I'll do it and we do it every Sunday we have a culture of it I'm just saying it's not

supposed to stop there and it never was So some of y'all hearing that, when I say imitate God, you may feel a little helpless. Like imitate God Himself, our Father. Mimic Him. Anybody feel like they would need some help to do that? All right, we're in good company. I want to talk about four different ways that we have help imitating our father. All right, the first one is the son, right? So I have the privilege of reminding someone in the form of you of Jesus's present-day ministry okay I know that he came died on the cross rose on the third day finished work of Christ we

stand on that right now he's also coming back right tattoo on his thigh but some of you don't know his present-day ministry all right go ahead and give me Romans 834. We're talking about help to be able to imitate our father. Verse 34 says, who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died more than that who was raised, who is at the right hand of God who indeed is interceding for us. Take that down. Some of us don't even know that Jesus is interceding for us right now. The Lamb of God

We are here searching for a prayer partner looking for prayer circles, which are amazing No, no, no, no, but the lamb who was slain is interceding for us now That's his present-day ministry You have the righteous one praying for you You have the lamb of God praying for you Why is that important right as our most high priest it says in the scriptures that he is aware of the pull on our flesh

It says in the scriptures that he is aware of the pull on our flesh Right say he was tempted at all points yet did not see it and because he came and lived on earth He is very well aware of the struggle of humanity He is informed as a prayer partner He has the authority to pray and nobody loves you more than him. I'll run off the stage. I will run off this stage. I don't care what you feel like. He's interceding for us.

That helps us, amen. Now we're gonna talk about the Spirit. The Holy Spirit, give me John 14, 26. Holy, Holy Ghost. This is Jesus speaking. He said, but the helper, the Holy Spirit. I'll say that again. It says, but the helper named the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in my name.

This is Jesus speaking. He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. I think one of the biggest travesties of the believer's life is that we spend entirely too much time trying to walk out what God has called us to do without leaning on the very one that was sent to help us. Okay, you don't think so?

How much do you depend on the Holy Spirit? Check me out. So as you survey your heart, if the Holy Spirit were to withdraw his support, would you fall on your face or would you just keep on walking like life? Just go to my job, fix the coffee. How was your weekend?

It was good. Let's go back to the desk. How you doing? How was your weekend? It was good. Let's go back to the desk. The Holy Spirit was hovering over the face of the waters before the very earth was formed. The Holy Spirit is the same one that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. He was always there. When they went into battle in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit was there in victory. When it was time to actually start the church in Acts,

he fell in the day of Pentecost when they were in the upper room, the Holy Spirit. There's nothing that we can do in this godly life to have any type of fruit apart from the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, you are in religion. That is it. And it's dead dead by the way. He was sent to help.

And we shunned it way too much. I've done it, you've done it. And it makes our life harder than it has to be. It says, he is the one that leads us into all truth. Let me read the amplified of that, that same verse26 it says but the helper the comforter the advocate Intercessor the counselor strengthener Just stand by the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name in my place to represent Me and act on my behalf stop

I'm gonna come back to it. Amplified version. In my place to represent me and act on my behalf. This is Jesus talking. Jesus is sitting at the right hand side of the Father. His work is done as far as to deal with sin. He sent the Holy Spirit to be in his place. Why would we ignore the one that Jesus sent? How in the world can we have a fruitful and healthy and vibrant church if we don't give

the place of the Holy Spirit, the place that he deserves, and it's in the plan from the Father that Jesus said would happen. How do you lean on him? I'm telling you, you know that he's always there. You lean on the grace of God, not the grace to forgive, the grace that helps you sustain. Right?

He is one that will refresh your soul. You know how we were just lingering in? We're just lingering in the presence of God? It wasn't just the music, y'all. We're talking about in the presence of God. It wasn't just the music, y'all. We're talking about the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. The Spirit of God, also called the Spirit of Christ. We gotta give him his place.

He was sent to help. Y'all with me, beloved? Right. All right, we're gonna talk about the scriptures. Oh man. Give me 2 Timothy 3, 16, 17. It says, all scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. Verse 17, that the man of God or woman of God

may be complete, equipped for every good work breathed out by God. It's literally translated inspired by him. So God had children, me and you, right? And he did enough to inspire the Holy Spirit used by men to give us letters and epistles to be able to strengthen you in the faith, to correct you, to train you in righteousness. And many times, whether it's the real version or the app,

it's just collecting dust Right, you know I was talking back there and you know what the problem is I think one of the problems we have just as humans if we have access to something at all times We we devalue it Right, right if I said listen man if you don't show up from the military if you don't show up and sit down at 12 15 between 12 15 at 12 25 p.m. We are serving we are serving lunch if you miss that you will not eat guess what you'll be doing you will cut the mid conversation. Hey man, hey yo, it's time to eat man. I'll holler at you, right?

Right? But he's given himself to us. He's given his word to us. He's given the scriptures and you can roll up on them at any time. And I believe because we have access anytime, he loved us so much, to give himself, we devalue it because he's always available.

Don't you see that when people deal with you if you always available? You need a ride? I'll give you a ride. Just call me. Right? It starts when they need you then it's like for anything I need to go pick up some gum from the store. Some gum?

It takes gas to come and get you up some gum from the store, some gum? I take gas to come and get you some gum. Yeah, man, you said, you know, just call you. We've devalued the very thing that God thinks in person that God has sent to help us in this walk as we seek to imitate him, God our Father. Hallelujah. All right, fam, this is my last one, man. We got two of it today, all right?

We talked about the son, talked about the spirit, we talked about the value of the scriptures, and now we're gonna talk about the saints. God has given us each other to help us in this world. Right? And I'll start here. But he's even told us how to deal with each other.

All right? So if you're waiting for a scripture to come up, it's not, because it's like 40 of them. Right? So for instance, one another is two words in English, but it's one word in Greek. It's called Allelon. Used approximately about a hundred times in the New Testament and over 40 plus times in commandments to those in the church. Right. And they come around just different things like unity,

love, humility. Like for instance, it says, except one another in Romans 15 7 be of the same mind with one another in Romans 12 16 and 15 and 5 be kind Tender-hearted and forgiving to one another Ephesians 4 32 don't complain against one another James 4 11 and 5 9 Confess sins to one another James 5 16. It says love one another James 5 16 it says love one another 11 times Know what I love cuz I love relationship so make sure relationship nerd, right?

And I say this as it pertains to marriage, but I think it pertains to the body of Christ as a whole right? we have a tendency to Come into relationship with someone and Disregard the creator and the blueprint that he gave to make that relationship fruitful Right now if you marry if I ask y'all to roll the point you had one these big lights right now and I rolled Upon you. I was like give me the major passages of Scripture the New Testament and talk about marriage It will probably be quiet Give me the major passages of scripture in the New Testament that talk about marriage. It will probably be quiet.

Right? But that's marriage. How does God tell us in the scriptures, inspiration by him, by the Holy Spirit leads to the truth, how does he tell us to treat one another? Come on, sir. You wanna know why we have so much dysfunction in the church, universal, and some here, we still got flesh stuff we're trying to work out, right?

Because we have ignored the one another's. I'll keep going. Come on. Through love, serve one another, Galatians 5.13. Be devoted to one another in love, Romans 12.10. Give preference to one another in honor, Romans 12.10. Give preference to one another in honor, Romans 12, 10. Serve one another, Glacius 5, 13. Don't be hardy, be of the same mind, Romans 12, 16.

Be subject to one another on and on and on. One of the major things that you were given by God himself is the body of Christ Yo, it just came in struggling somebody just gave you it's a godly hug and you thought about saved your life Or somebody genuinely looked at it was it was tough man. I remember I speak to a brother So somebody genuinely looked at you, it was tough, man. I remember I was speaking to a brother, it was back when we were at the other location. He said, man, it was actually stressful because people were asking me how I was

and they really meant it. You know what I'm saying, hey, how you doing? Oh, I'm good. He said, nah, people were really interested in me. Like, yo, man, no, how are you doing? Which means there's a responsibility with community as well. And let me tell you something, healthy relationships can be stressful

if you're only used to dysfunction. They always in my business. No man, it's called community, they care about you. We ain't seeing you in a month. They sweat me so, it's called community. They care about you. We ain't seeing you in a month. They sweat me. So no, we love you. We care about one another. How are you doing? I know you were struggling with this and then you dropped off for a month. What's good? And to many of us, we've all done it. You ever been somewhere, okay I've been

saved for 20 years, you ever been somewhere in a season and you fell in the sin and Then you want to see nobody from the church I'm talking person you sat next to every Sunday You just run into him a Walmart. You try to turn around like Hey brother Hayes, hey, what's up? How you doing? What's up man, I'm just chilling, you know what I'm saying? I ain't seen you in a while. Yeah man, you know, all right man, I'm gonna holler at you.

You trying to run out of there. That could have been God extending his hand of grace. As if you're the only one dealing with sin. Sin to help you. I think we set up squads. I know we need to, y'all came so much we trying to get more of them but we set them up because we know just this Sunday is not enough. You need somebody to walk through life with you, Sunday through Sunday. I'm done, Frank.

As disciples, to imitate our Father means to imitate and mimic the God-man Jesus Christ. Because He is the only one to walk this thing out on earth perfectly. And we need help, y'all. Don't we need help? Don't we need the Son praying for us? Don't we need to be guided by the Holy Spirit? Don't we need to find our face in the scriptures much more? And don't we need to treat each other right

and have godly community? These are all things that God has provided for us, y'all. Let us not trample them underfoot. All right, let me pray for us. Holy Father, I just thank you for being good to us. Thank you for being kind. I thank you that you actually knew what we would go through before we get there,

and you have provided a way of escape. You have provided a way of support. You have provided ways that we will receive love. You have provided the church. You have given us the Holy Spirit. You have provided ways that we will receive love. You have provided the church. You have given us the Holy Spirit. You have given us the scriptures. You have given us the Son. You have given us yourself.

As we continue to make disciples and have converts turn into disciples, God. Help us burn this message in our soul that I believe you gave me to give to them. That we will seek to honor the gifts that you have given us. That we will be able to correctly and build this kingdom in our hearts in this church the right way. That when people see us individually and collectively, they would see salt and light. That we would run to you when we sin instead of away, knowing that you're the only one that can give us grace

to be able to survive in this sin sick world. Help us honor the Holy Spirit more, oh God, and lean into him and get the revelation of exactly how strong and mighty that he is. That we will walk in your grace sustained by him Jesus. I want to tell you