Christianity in Crisis

Good morning brothers and sisters. It is so good to be in the house of the Lord one more time. I'm glad to be with you this morning. I bring you greetings from the Christian Love Baptist Church in Modesto, California. When I am the proud pastor of such an awesome group of Believers and trust is in the name of Jesus Christ, we greet you in that name. We hope that you are doing well as you join us in our online worship experience before I start today. I want to just take a moment because it has been in Tumultuous week is month. We have been challenged. and crisis has visited us and right now pull his all across the country on prey the Shepherds who have been charged with watching over God's people are wrestling wrestling now with the uncertainty of these times. It's important for us to acknowledge that these are unprecedented times. These are perilous times. we have not seen this type of unrest of of Civil Disobedience of a level of frustration from the African-American community and we all know the images we know the

initial incident that caused this chaos in up for but no matter how much I am challenged culturally. I am informed spiritually. That greater is he that is in US? Then he that is in the world. And I'm reminded that this is not a battle between flesh and blood but it is a battle against powers and principalities.

My heart's heavy. emotional

I am dismayed. I am saddened I am. distraught

angry

and I see her. for the men and women who look like me

yet. I have hope. Yet I will trust in the Lord. got to excuse me here, but I was

I was taught in the early age that I could not do anything about the total that comes to me. It's not my responsibility to change that but what my responsibility is is how I respond. To the trouble that comes to me. actions are on the the responsible of list of the actors but the response is undermine Authority and control and God has an expectation for his people not to react now. No matter how natural it feels lashout reaction only causes further reactions. I don't want that you are not want that either you are not want to see how country in Ruins you are not going to see chaos all around us. Yes, it's wrong, but but there's nothing. They can drive out the darkness of this world. That resembles the darkness that's in this world. Only light can do that. And I'm begging for the light right now. I'm reminded of

Appoint Story by Reverend Thomas Thomas H Thomas a Dorsey, you don't know he's a great gymnast your early 30s. Hand over 56 summer items that have become Staples in our community and stories told. The Dorsey and his demand to be at the performers singing These sacred songs. These hands was requested to go to St. Louis for an event. he prided himself on when he gave his word he audited and he he journeyed although his wife was expecting a young child and although she was in the latter stages of the pregnancy. He decided that he must hold to his obligation and go on and show. Has he arrived there in the crowd enjoy his his leading them in and worship through song. He had moments of great Bliss as they beg for song after song and finally when he had finished he retreated back to the back portion of the sanctuary and there he was met by a messenger who handed him. very direct and devastating Telegraph that simply said your wife has died.

His grief and his distraught he got again back on the train headed back home to Chicago arrived only to find that it was true. His wife had died and now he was faced with the confusion mixture of joy and grief losing the mother, but still having the infant son. What a dilemma what a predicament. But grief hasn't wasn't done with Doctor Dorsey yet. After taking his wife. He also lost his infant son. He fell into such a deep depression than that was a thought keep hands later that says he thought God had forsaken him. God had accounted him a curse and let him down and a friend wouldn't let him stay there. He knew he was full of questions. He knew there was anger he knew that was bitterness and she took him to a place where he can return to the things that gave him Comfort which was the word and the way God gifted him to worship and he began to deliver him to this place of performance. He sat down at the piano. And then a song began to ring true for him. And out of that song his sorrow had a voice out of that song His Pain could be presented and then out of that same song I could begin the process of reminding him that he had never left. Never forsaken him and his worst moments. He was drawing closer. My brothers and my sisters, I think we need a little bit of that this morning. We need a little bit of what dr. Dorsey found in that difficult dark time. He found it there was a place he could go in person. He could draw near to who would help him your critical moment. And if you just bear with me, I know it might be a little awkward here, but I got to do what I feel like the Lord is leading me to do because I want the words of this song to minister to your sickness your sadness your sorrow your seeding anger.

Take my hay.

Leave me alone.

Letting me stay.

mthai

amlo

Leave me alone.

to the light

turn my head.

Henry

me home. when my

precious

Mingle

Where's my love?

He is all. Morse code

Hear My Call

Hold on.

Lester hahaha

Henry

Mijo

whispering God we don't know nothing else but to come to you. you know nothing else but to Bring our pain. I pleasure. I promise.

Are predicaments and we let him at the altar and not just for us God but for everyone we love for everyone who loves us for everyone who sympathizes for those who connect maybe not. With our color, but without Humanity. We bow before you not just as a people, but as a nation and as a planet. please say We're listening.

speak

cuz we don't know what to say.

Hanes to great

curtains too heavy

speak to us because

So many voices are talk.

so many personalities

Grand chaos and crisis

and we don't know what to do.

he needs

broken

Could we come? We come empty before a free-flowing full Hamilton. We asked you to do for us. Kobe can't do for herself.

Keep us from the hand of the evil.

It's not a person got its a power. It's a principle. It's a ruler in half way.

Liza been lost

peace has been interrupted.

Even in the face of a pandemic seeing his found a way to make what was horrible even worse. Put your Bible tells us if my people.

humble themselves and pray

seek my face and turn from their Wicked Ways then.

Will I hear from heaven?

I would forgive that sin. And I would kill that.

cor land.

Stop the madness.

Save us from Asia.

We can't make it with us.

People have straight and got so far away from you. But get word says if we will return unto you you will return unto us and we are coming back to you God.

We pray like David Gets D&B alone. Have we send and done this thing in your sight?

But if you wash your ass will be clean. God created us clean Hawks. Renew a right Spirit within us.

Restore unto us the joy of our salvation.

pass or not Oh gentle savior hear my humble cry while on others Thou Art calling do not. Pass Me By I pray for those who won't pray to you. Whose anger has blinded them whose pain has prescribed. punishment in destruction of property God I pray for peace

I pray.

For the favor of God to be on the hearts of all eat, I pray for protection.

I pray God. That those who have evil intent. Who throw rocks and hide hands got that you will silence their hate speech that you will strike down their evil actions. Got to pray we won't let our anger in for my actions.

We can be angry, but we cannot see in for my anger. We can be hurt but we can't be still in our pain.

This is often as we asked you would be faithful you would be just to forgive forgive our land guy with asking you.

restore our nation god with frame

This is not a prayer of self. Preservation it's a prayer. Selfish desire to see what we don't deserve bring us your peace. Show us your power. Cleanse us from all sin and make us your sacred people again. I got Brothers of all colors all coaches preaching. It's morning Hearts distress. Torn cuz they don't know. What's it say? Help us open our mouths and let the spirit speak. Remind us that this is not a battle against flesh and blood. But it is a power got it is a principality. To help us put on the arm not to fight but to stay. Remind us that you told us these things with p.

But she's also told us greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. forgot I think

as we come to the time of preaching I pray you would.

Meet us in this moment by your spirit prepare the hearts of the hearing God.

I'm not much but I'm at your disposal.

I asked the words my mouth. Not taking my heart got to be acceptable.

Lord You Are My Strength and my redeemer

Send the mighty name of Jesus we pray.

I need you to join me. this morning

Do you have your Bibles? I want to talk about Christianity in crisis a sermon. trouble X Hugo's need a book of Isaiah

6 chapter verses 1 through 8

You'll find these words.

Isaiah chapter 6 verses 1 through 8 and says in the year that King Uzziah died

I saw also the Lord.

I saw the Lord sitting on the throne. high and lifted up in the train of his robe filled the temple. Above it stood Serafin each one had six wings. To he covered his face with two he covered his feet and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said holy holy.

Holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. And the post of the door with shaken by the voice of him who cried out at the house and the house was filled with smoke. So I said, woe is me for I am undone. Cuz I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.

For my eyes have seen the king the Lord of hosts. Then one of the seraphim flew to me having in his hand a lot of cold, which he had taken with the tongs from The Altar and he touched my mouth with it and said behold. This has touched your lips. Your Nick Woody is taken away. And you're saying is purged. Birthday sayings and I also I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then I said here am I? Send me. Christianity in crisis just for a little while. We'll talk about Christianity. in crisis

Frozen sisters I'm At a loss for words right now.

It's Ben search

an unreal time in the life of a country

just the sheer number of riots and protests of

the organized Civil Disobedience that has been created from

such a surreal moment of watching the life of another human being being forced from his body. with such deliberateness and callousness

it was cringe-worthy TV. What time do you said it's murder p*** and we have overdosed on the viewing. day after day over multiple social platforms even down to the reporting of news the images of the life draining.

from that young man

the words of him crying for someone to help him galvanizing statement of I can't breathe bringing to Bear all these things if there was ever a way for us to discern when crisis was at hand. Just look outside your window. Just look as a pandemic is crushing the soul of this entire planet. the age was Timeless plague of preference and racism

prejudice and bias has now been made visible again.

and it is shot turn too overwhelming anger. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded into the streets of their own towns and start some way of resolution from the Calamity and crisis. That's occurring. They wanted answers that really nobody could give. they want it fixes that nobody has the power to provide that they are looking for a reason why these things keep happening over and over again and I can believe that the word of God can be trusted. We are not be shocked that these things are happening. We have been in crisis for a very long time. We have been in a difficult place as a world as a people as a planet for most of our existence. We have had an eerie, but now chaos seems to have found its voice again. I wonder if you feel the crisis at hand.

there is a political air to everything there is disregard for order in In control, there is a distane with the deliberate Works a showing preferential treatment for one group and showing piss-poor efforts towards another. If you are a part of the majority class. was seen as a normal life from the eyes of the minority class. It seems as a life that was never meant for you. It's a crisis.

When you have to weigh out the burden of will you die over are you dedicated to return back to your place of worship? We're in crisis. Play voices of Reason have been muted and voices of insane swings of emotion have been Amplified. We are in crisis. when the street speaks louder than the church All my brothers and sisters not only are we in crisis, but the body of Believers are in crisis. What scripture is been sidestep to? Be made ineffective because we want to give that has been given unto us we want to return what was offered up to us. We want and eye for an eye. We want a life for a life. We want to destroy and tear down like we've been destroyed and tear and torn down and and that is the Catalyst for crisis. When you want to create the kind of harm that's been creating harm on you when you want to be the actor of negative things last the acting of negative things has come upon you we are in Christ tomorrow crisis. It's an emotional crisis. And I can dare to believe it's a spiritual one as well. There's an enemy in great Glee because we have gone the way of All Flesh. We have yielded to our baser instincts and we are acting as though this is the last resort and from these very places of worship now closed with the threat of a pandemic but still open with the power. Of the present state of God's word. There is a question being asked. Is there a word from the Lord?

Is there a scripture that can bring sustenance in this time of famine? There is a word. But before we look at the word of hope, we need to look at the weight of the hurt. The crisis has been ever at hand. we turned out back to where we went quiet to it, but

it has been looming for as long as we have been alive. when Adam and Eve yielded to the desires to do what God had prescribed not to crisis countdown began and we were in a chaotic spiraling down with turn until God and his great wisdom and in his Flawless timing sent one through A seed in Bethlehem a baby born to a virgin.

Who redeems falling man, but you we are again as if Redemption has not happened here. We are again as if the cross. Have not completed it here. We are fighting is though Jesus never said it is finished.

And how do we respond in times of crisis? How do we find out way back to reality when we're reeling? from the

death and destruction all around us I rather insistent. I don't know how you feel about it. I don't know if you aware of it, but God. has some compassionate help. Hazard Christianity is in crisis. I want to look at a couple of outlines in this texting. I'm hoping you my brothers and sisters will. Be able to join me in neck. Understanding that whenever things look as Bleak as they do. God must be up to something when they get this bad. God is almost ensuring that we're about to see a better swing.

Although it's an Old Testament. Textile. Goldie prophet. Isaiah is linked with so much of the the nation of Israel early days fall and descend into a downward spiral. I believe what he prescribed to his audience. Dan still holds contacts to us who are listening now. Play the same way he went about looking at the cause of his prices in his face walk with God. We too can look at the causes of our crisis in our Christian lifestyle mirroring that of our allegiance to the Lord. I'm just going to share a couple things and I'm going to try to get out of your way.

But I see some things. and we have the people need to look at it if we're going to Be safe from this. Christianity that's in crisis what will deliver us why believe you can look at an answer until we look at the cars. And I think we're looking at over and above anything is a failure in some very specific areas in the same phase. We're looking at today. I think Isaiah made acknowledgement of in his day.

if we will just just look at the text and I think the first thing I can see with looking at the passage of scriptures. I see a a failure to write Lee Focus. a failure to write my focus. Is there at chapter 6 verse 1 Isaiah enters this scene in the temple and he's already making some very deliberate Declarations of events that have already already occurred. First off. He is not there for celebration sorrow has drawn him to the place of worship. Isaiah who was being the reigning King has now experienced a death at a disgraced hand. I don't know if you know the history of this time does dispensation. We're a lot alike Isaiah is but Isaiah his harkening back to a time where the nation has experienced such an economic growth such a profitable time because the the reign of King Isaiah brought viability to the nation of Israel. They have been living in a very good Isaiah started off as a righteous King doing the things that please God ain't that always the case nothing ever really starts off bad and it begins with the best of intentions the best of Notions Azalea was that representation. He led God's people By the inspiration of God Spirit. He heeded the call of God's prophets in the nation was blessed. But anytime humanity is attempting to satisfy Divinity. We went into that age-old problem that even when we have a right heart. We got wrong hand. Even when the motivation is true, the mechanics can monkey it up. Yes, I I sold I breathe into us by the divide one, but our flesh has been filthy. by the flood of sin and as I started great, but king of Zaire soon turned away of all those with power it corrupted him and he showed the corruption and when he turned away from God when he stopped following God's Commandments when he did not honor God's relationship with him and his people to be a representation of righteousness. He didn't experience the righteous judgement of God. In the Bible say does iodide of a heinous affect Keith died from leprosy a very visible visceral disturbing way to come to an end. Imagine watching a king and all his Regal in Royal presentation be reduced down to a heap of Rotting Flesh informs me that anything good that doesn't come from God eventually goes the way of all ungodly good if it comes grotesque, And it started off pleasing. It started off perfect. It started off pleasant but now it is putrid. It is poor. It is polluted. And Isaiah was faced with watching a king who had allegiance to and a king who he adored and a kangaroo. He was loyal to and serve and took pleasure in the goody Brodsky. Watch them. Go the way of All Flesh he died.

Americans the failure my brothers and sisters because if ever there is something freshly that draws our Focus we have already failed. We look for the tangible things to attach to we assume people are good because they look good. They say good day. They do good, but there is none good but the father

I see that point driven home in our passage this morning. It begins in the year that King Uzziah died and it's something that you took the removal. I'm a wrong thing. For God's servant to see the right thing. God had to clear the line of sight.

from The Flash the only the father call my brother and sisters if I could pause right here in and stop with the observation and move away from just the interpretation for a second. I believe we could almost in first similar things that happening cuz these are not good times in the life of us. Pandemic is Rage. We are fearful of physical contact. We are messed up and lay text over in every way. We can we are distancing ourselves one another we have abandoned the places where we congregate in gather. We've let go of entertainment. We stop with the Simple Pleasures of eating out and shopping and even though we're rushing back the sickness steel invades our society yet we go right into the face of death. And what was good and normal in Pleasant what became very pleasing to you what maybe even you started to worship? God now his May become the worst thing in your life the fear of eating outside of your home is my Fork infected does my plate have a parasite is the food? Payson funny Friday fun no more outside drinks fear. In the normal resistance, we have to contact has been magnified a thousand times. We don't want to be touched. We don't want to be approached have don't even look at me. You might make me sick. What is done is remove dust from a creature Comfort taking us out of our places of rest in safety. There's no leisure for us. Now. There's a longing for God to restore what Humanity has wreaked havoc with but I'll tell you this though. It's okay because God has cleared I line of sight we no longer see service self. We no longer see satisfying the flesh all we want now all that's in front of us is just what was always there. Was not the things God gave to us. It was the god who gives things to us. We worship the gift so much that we started to ignore the giver and what Isaiah suffered in his sixth chapter. We are suffering and our final chapter.

forgot in the year that covid-19. In the year where funerals had to be done at a distance in the year where restaurants was shut down in a year. That's synonymous with Clear Vision. We are about to see clearly

We see the Lord now. Household of Faith makes no mistake. God must be the only reason he took away our places of worship. He stopped are congregating. He he sees down so he he cut off calling on him from a very public venue now, it's just the Invisible Presence of an unseen God. It's the feeling of hands. You can't see but feel around your heart and soul. You got to get rid of your Earthly King, and now you see the real king. That's what I see right there. When when we fail to focus God plays Divine Optometry. He clears our line of sight he restores our vision. He makes again obvious. What was always clear. He says in the year that King Uzziah died. I finally saw the Lord. That was a failure to rightly focus, but I see this.

He saw King. He'd Isaiah saw a guy and all his greatness and then saw him and all his grotesqueness. But then as soon as he was laid to rest he saw God high and lifted up.

He saw our team, but he was eventually shipped by the team.

He says in the year that King Uzziah died. I saw the Lord at a 9. Yahweh listen sitting on the throne. Nobody tells me he was so busy looking at lower level leadership. Then he had missed higher-level kingship. He was so waiting for somebody on his line of sight tours in the service that he forgot that there's someone who sits higher than all sight. Who is The Giver of all service? I love how he uses the visual illustration that went on diet went down. He also saw God who is always seated. No. No, he didn't just Ascend to the throne. He was just visiting there for the first time. It always has been in a place of rest sitting at the place of power. Yeah, man had some Authority but God sits in the seat of all authority. Man has some power but God has always been present in the place. omnipotence he has all power. He ain't just got their God has always been there a day. I hadn't been just missing the vision of God. He has selectively seen only what he wanted to see it on my brothers sisters. Maybe we're guilty of the same thing. Maybe finally now that the president that doesn't look like us is gone. Looking down here for something that can only come from up there. You at down here try to give you peace peace comes from The Peacemaker. You let down here try to get you sleep I can make a pill but I can't give you rest.

the pharmacist Can prescribe something to relieve your symptoms but there is only one who can give a permanent cure.

And then you hear that. His site changed in the year where his Idol was down in the year where? God restored our right Focus he saw things as he always should have he saw God was always in his Temple. He saw God was always on his throne.

Feeling the place of worship. We be outward trappings of his presence y'all.

The premise for these times in Sheltering in place was that the church wouldn't survive. The thought was if we weren't there every Sunday what would happen to the places of worship? That's where I power was that's where I presence was needed to be we had to participate in a physical proximity of the place of worship. I holding this was their worship was there I pray this were there any God has shown us that our Focus has failed us. We left the building do what only the Builder could do.

We let acts of service. Take the place of a savior. We let what we do became more important the one in the one who calls us and causes us to do it to me. Now. The church was never close. What the church was reduced by eyesight? Who made the church what we can see and feel what we can sit on and handle we made the church what we were doing in a particular place on a particular day at a particular time and just like Isaiah. God had to kill the correct.

Brothers we can have as many plans by as many Governors as the Nations will hold. We can open the building, but God has left the building.

You can set a ties to place but it's still is not sacred enough for the presence of God. You can run out the virus. God was always above human sickness. He is omniscient. He is omnipotent omnipresent deal with that last one for a second. He ain't just where you want him to be. He is all places. at all times

Thank you. God because in the year when my king goes down your kingship is shown. Thank you God cuz when my leaders go to lifelessness, you are still the only living leader. She said I saw him. Listen not only seated. This is such a dichotomy, but it says he was seated high and lifted up Only God Can transcend physical properties. He's at rest, but he's still at attention. Even when God is down, he still looks up even though God looks reduce these still greater than any volume or measurement. I got is too big for a small thinking. I got is too great for I inferior control. God was already above I'll piss poor preaching. tired of teaching fake worship

God is greater than just kidding are leftovers. God deserve. Best from the onset and God was always destroyed and the guy was always Disturbed that we offered to finite creatures. What was only meant to be given to an infinite God? He said he was high and lifted up. You don't need my praises to elevate him. He don't need my service to get him up. I do nothing for his reputation. But risk ruining it. He is perfect. He is true. He is good. He is righteous. He is kind he is compassionate, but that's what he is just Theodore Noe and he will repay

first to say it.

I need to stop at the be part of verse 1 and his train filled the temple. I think that's what's wrong. We we we we we've often time let the the building be filled with God's clothes, but it's never been filled with his presence. We talked about a time when God was Heavy in the place of worship. And anyway, we reminisce over the spirit that fell on that place and some of us are still caught up in the celestial high, but God has never been there in a while.

You can try to build a building around his Coke, but God doesn't just want to exist in the temple to overwhelm the temple. God desires to be everywhere at all places. Will you put God in one proximity you have limited the omnipresence of God?

God in your living room now. God's riding in your car now. God is on your laptop. You're a pet your iPad. He's in your smartphone. God is in your language. God is laying down with you. God is Outback on your patio. God dwells where you work and listen, you're the only one late to the party. God is always been all places. You just haven't always seen him.

Yeah, he he saw his Keen go down, but he was shook by the king cuz there's two said yeah, he was there in the Lord was sitting on the throne above it stood Sarah from each one had wings to recover his face to recover his feet and with two we did fly. God was so holy. Served by such and jelly beans that they don't even mimic. I understanding of what they are. They was there to service the key who is always desires of service. Even when God ain't working through you God is still working even when you can't see him working way maker says we know God is working. That's why he's working in the habit that's going on in our cities in streets. God is working. You guys are busy carrying out his wishes there's destruction but still no God is determined. Remind David giving praises to his name but God is still busy with praiseworthy productivity. God is still about his business. His plan is still going forward. You are shocked by this stage, but God always knew this day would come he knew it because he said and whenever God says comes to pass. He knew will be arguing and fighting in the street in 2020. He knew our leadership would be suspect he knew we could be provoked into uncharacteristic actions. He knew our peace was temporary. He knew our problems. Great Ski-Doo. We didn't trust him. He knew I worship wasn't real he knew if he closed the door we run away cuz we were never really there to begin with.

But none of what we did stop what God was doing. He was still on his throne. He was still feeling the temple Angels were still serving him. Put that face. He did with their feet shot. And with that pair of wings ready to perform whatever Duty wherever God dictated at a moment's declaration all to be as obedient and ready for service as those Serafin. First three said and then one cried to another. And said, holy holy is the Lord of hosts. See you don't understand it when a King dies a nation becomes vulnerable.

many of the the dictatorships that have existed came because a small man had a control of a big army. I think of Hitler and Germany rallying the third right to to battle against the entire world Desiring to have this Superior class of people elevated to rulership. His fighting force was massive. They look like they had a foothold in every part of the world and some of us even still see trappings of the 3rd right working out all around us. The symbolic ways of thing being presented are still present today. And no matter though no matter how devious the dictator no matter how huge the Army, please remember God. Is the Lord of hosts? It is a picture of a six-star general. It's unheard of we don't even know what that is. I was only go to 5 God has ranks and level of authority that we have. No understanding of God has you think you have foot soldiers. I've got hundreds of trillions of billions of millions of unnumbered innumerable. Our presence is that can come at my beckon call. I'm the Lord of all of them and that fact why you think your muster up the energy to fight against me? I can turn on your abilities in a second and take what was granted to you for my grace and requirement of your I can require The View today. I'm the Lord of all hosts. There's never an army that I can't defeat. There's never a leader that I don't control. That's not a weapon that can do me harm. But my very words will bring blessings or burdens to you. I can bring remediate immediate relief for remedial judgment. Guy says I've always been the Lord of hosts. The Angels declared us to that. Although Howard leadership might be suspect. God has always been holding.

Although I fall asleep has been sketchy. God is always remain. Holy. He never relied on us doing it right for his righteousness. He never needed us to succeed so that he could be a success. God is always been in control and control is what always God will be. You going over everything?

Did the whole earth is full of his glory his apart? Yeah, it was a failure to write the focus. But God took away xayah and he made Isaiah. See him clearly. What do I see.

That always their failure to write with Focus.

also a failure to be righteously fit. Friday the 1st There's four and it says in the post. Of the door was shaken by the voice of him who cried out. And the house was filled with smoke.

It is something.

Isaiah is in the presence of a temple and he's grieving the loss of a monarch in apparently his reputation was great to the very end and leprosy struck him. He dies and then Isaiah begin to see images that overwhelm him. The more glorious the vision he sees the more grotesque. He sees himself. I wish you can understand what he's really saying right here what he's really saying right? Here's the more I see God the less. I want to see. The more I see of his greatness the more I see of my inferiority the more I see of his Perfection the more I see of my seeing that's why measuring up to humanity is always been her favorite thing. I can find somebody worse than me. I ain't got to look hard.

I'm bad, but I bet I can find someone who's better. I'm down, but I can find somebody who's lower that back if I'm honest and let me be hot right here. Let me be honest open and transparent that moment in my life where I look for people worse off than me so I can feel better about myself, but all God has a way. Remove ring inappropriate levels for us and he clears the place he empties the room so that we only measure ourselves according to him and I don't care how good you are. You ain't God good. I don't care how right you think you are. You ain't Godly righteousness. Only when you see God in his Holiness, do you see you and your helplessness?

You got to look at yourself from the love of God and you look like nothing. Did you see yourself from from God's perspective, you're not meeting the mark you had measured up. You hadn't found the standard and that's where Isaiah is right now. He's recognizing that I was I was perfect to serve, but I'm too far. To serve the father. How do I know cuz the angel's voices shook the post of the temple to post with a frame. It was those very things that gave support to the place of worship without the support y'all. nothing stands I wish I had some HGTV watches here. If you ever seen Flip or Flop if you ever watch the home improvement show you ever seen people coming in and trying to get the trendy open concept look to their home. They're always shocked and dismayed at the contractor comes through and says, yes, we can create an open concept but this wall. We can't knock this one down. This wall is substantial. This wall carries weight. This wall has strength method. He says things like this. This wall is a load-bearing wall.

All of you ever heard that that that wall is so essential to the structural Integrity that to remove that is to put the whole house in Jeopardy and you know what? Sometimes we need the load-bearing walls around Aiken. Sometimes you won't move till it looks like you can lose everything. God got a way of coming in and speaking to us in such volume that what we always laying down Will Ferrell.

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We can flatten the perv but only God can bring it full circle. You can stay in if you want to. You can make an airtight dwelling. God can still visit you. What you made impenetrable to what you found safe and secure to what you depending on to be strong and sturdy. I'm I'm testifying from a place of trial and tribulation. I'm trying to speak from a place of Sadness and Sorrow, I thought my mama was the Pinnacle of power. She was the source of my strength. She gave me my company as she spoke life into me. She fed me when I was hungry. She was highly suspect my body went, let me down. She was right there and nothing can take my mom a butt.

Not at my rocks been removed. God says it was never a rock holding you. Not at my post has been shaking. God said you should have never trusted the post. The post was here to point you to the store. So the post trip no matter how much my mama tried to tell me. It was just Jesus through her. I made it her and some of y'all are doing similar things. We may Kings out of stuff that never wanted to rule us. We made a Thornton's out of things that never wanted to have control of us. We giving all the power to things who always told you they were powerless to keep it and it takes a Divine Move to shake. the post of your life

how Christianity in crisis cuz we had a failure to write with Focus. A Christianity made us make other things the king other than the king.

We had a failure to write with Focus we had. Finally, I failure. to righteously fit Can you see it God's sight exposed to wall? that is right there in the first instance of the post of the door was shaking in the voice of him that cried out of the house was filled with smoke then it says it adverse 5, so I said whoa And I was some young Pope was here. I was young. I'm not young anymore. Few years back things change so quick. It could have been a few days. I don't know what we used to be a terror. Wollman something shipped you I gave you pause what means something unexpected it just happened. Whoa in our modern vernacular simply was a term of shock and amazement. But woe in the Biblical term meant there's a problem. Waze says I thought this was something else but this is way worse. Then I ever thought it was what was the statement of utter helplessness?

Get a prophet when he says Walmart to me. If I preach not the gospel hear the words of Christ through the gospel says woe unto you you scribes and Pharisees vipers. He called them unto those who are not ready for the awful day of the Lord. That's to come blow that mean would we mean now and then we love to transpose context. We see something familiar and think we are the originator know things can only mean what they meant when they began and woe is steel a bad term. It was always bad. And when we fail to righteously fit. Play me when we are not busy doing what God is always required us to do when we finally are face to face with God. We feel the womb. of being under Oasis sad feeling when you were left the task when the Taskmaster turn it off and didn't tell you when he returns you were lazy and not driven to complete your work and all of a sudden the master has shown up again. Whoa my works. I'm done. Well, my standing is weak. Whoa. My power ain't prepared. Well, I ain't ready to yield. I'm not ready to be serving. You know why you ain't ready to win unless you have been ready by woe.

Things have to be broken before they are able to Bear being built. Guy could never use anything that first didn't think itself unusable. See the problem is some of us have gone to God because we're good enough to go. And you taking credit that was only meant for the Christ. Yeah, it was a good sermon but it's because I'm such a well-prepared well-spoken preacher now, that's a walbro. Oh, yeah, it's a song that honest guy. But I had already worked out all my runs and it cuz I'm gifted like that. That's a roast is. Well when you start to think anything good started in you. Because when God shows up, we see the standard for good see if it's going to be God. It's got to be perfect. If it's got to be God, it's got to be without flaw if it's going to be. It better be without anything starting any other thing, but the only we love the father and it's wrong to Isaiah because I was Isaiah was useful to a King, but he's useless to ducky. You see it is in front of it. His sickness is on display is a perfect God and Isaiah feels like an imperfect thing. He has a clean God and Isaiah feels like a nasty rag. There's a God who wants it all and he is Isaiah with nothing to give if you ever felt the walk in your worship you ever tried to sing and felt like my notes aren't good enough for God. Whoa. Ever tried to pray and felt like you were talking to yourself and not the celestial whoa. Whoa, if you ever tried to offer somebody a meal and it didn't feel like it was meaningful or credit to the Creator Naomi's pause, my friend and don't check your message check your motivation wall declares a heart. That's ratchet. And the head is already. unusable my brothers and sisters we are. Exposing a woe in our world right now. Well, because medicine can't do what we needed to do. Well because I leaders don't know what's about to happen Willow because my neighbor ain't my keeper. Whoa, cuz my family ain't my friend well because my job don't need me. Well because I got a nice car and nowhere to go. I've been breaking my back for a house to be in that now that I'm foreseeing. I can't stand being in the womb both of the time you've wasted for the effort you put into a useless area wrong to you. God showing up shows how in if if your efforts have been listen Isaiah, I'm done got a ride and we unravel You don't believe me. the burning down Target