What is it like to be exposed in front of someone who is a Father or a Father figure? It’s embarrassing. That’s how Adam felt when he realized he was naked. God set boundaries for Adam to follow because a man is known not by what he says but by what he does. Discipline for a man is a sign of love. There are eight characteristics that children exhibit as a result of discipline.
I think there’s anybody feel like
blessing the name of the Lord this
morning if the Lord’s been good to you
you got something to shout about you out
open your mouth and giving
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the father’s papers said I was glad when
they said unto me let us go into the
house of the Lord so he been coming to
the house of the Lord looking like this
he came in with joy and exuberance and
Thanksgiving anybody got the joy of the
Lord this Lord I want to officially
deputize you to be on our greeters
committee and I want you to at least get
three or four people and hug them and
welcome them into the presence of the
Lord this morning
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I hope you gave the special hug to all
the fathers let’s clap our hands and
honor all the fathers happy Father’s Day
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happy Father’s Day to every father in
the building you may be seated in its
presence I’m gonna take the liberty this
morning I want all the father’s to stand
I want you to stand up yeah let’s
recognize all the fathers hey man hey oh
you can do better than that there you go
give the man some love after all the men
that are watching online a happy
Father’s Day to you and all of your
respective places we thank God for you
think of thank you thank you
you were rugs
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thank you thank you I’m excited about it
glad to be at the house of the Lord with
all of my spiritual children and some of
my natural children makes me feel real
fatherly amen
I’m excited about what let me take a
moment to I want to just take a moment
and think all of you my birthday was
last Sunday I rack up with joy all the
cards all the text all the tweets all
the comments on Facebook and Twitter and
Instagram all the gifts I just want to
thank all of you I was only a gift till
I fell asleep I was sitting at the
dining room table God little bit up
stuff you have been so delightful to me
and I just appreciate you so much
give yourselves a round of applause
thank you for your kindness toward me I
want to tell the fathers that we’ve got
gifts out in the lobby for you for
Father’s Day we just want to recognize
you and honor you and give you just a
little gift from the potter’s house to
you acknowledging you for the job that
you’re doing as a man of God that you
are we appreciate you in the Lord so
don’t forget so don’t get shouting and
forget to stop and get your gift out
there in the back cause if you do I have
to collect your portion a man I told him
upstairs I even got some of the Mother’s
Day gifts hey man it was supposed to
been for the women but I’d like that I
got me some to get my nails fixed up –
amen say man somebody I want to take a
moment I’m excited we have had for years
and years of national pastors and
leadership conference give God a praise
for the national fashion
we’re gonna continue to have that and
we’re going to have it we have not
released a date yet and I want to
release it this morning however I also
want to make you aware that there’s
going to be a name change from the
National pastor’s Leadership Conference
to the International Leadership Summit
the International Leadership Summit and
I’ll be honest with you we have seen
such a growth in leaders of all types of
all kinds elected officials CEOs
managers entrepreneurs coming to our
Leadership Conference that we just
decided to just call it the
international leadership summer that I’m
excited about that can you save and it
is my goal through these meetings I want
to say this to you we’re not just doing
things to be doing them we’re not just
having things to be habitable
but but I would – I went to the Broadway
play up in New York to see Hamilton and
yeah let me tell you something if you
have not been to see it I don’t care if
you have to sell popcorn balls you need
to go see Hamilton it is absolutely
amazing incredible I saw it there I saw
the importer rico I’ve been chasing
Hamilton around just seeing it over and
over again because it is just that
impactful but in that process of that
movie of that a Broadway play there is a
song that they do it’s a hip hop song
about being in the room where things
happen a man and I tell you it just sent
me in the orbit because a lot of times
things don’t happen because we’re not in
the right room
you can have the right dream and the
right vision but if you’re not in the
right room where things happen you can’t
really bring that dream to fruition some
of us can’t get the change of mentality
that we need because we can’t escape the
room that we’re in anybody ever feel
like you were in the wrong room you know
you hear people talking on one level and
you’re thinking on another level you you
want to be in the room and so what I’m
doing with these things like our
Leadership Conference and even our woman
our losses coming up and in Atlanta the
things that we’re doing is to allow the
Saints to be in the room with people who
are reshaping the world so that you
could hear the way they think so then
you can get some notes so that you can
get some ideas so that you’ll be
well-rounded in every area of your life
some people think all you need is to
talk in tongues and lay out on the floor
but when you get through laying out on
the floor you got to deal with real-life
stuff talk to me everybody and so I am
using my relationships in and outside of
the church arena to bring together some
people who are really shaking the world
and putting them at the table so that
you can hear the discussions and ask
questions and grow into any individual
and continue to be fruitful all of your
life and I’m sort of happy to announce
that we’re going to be in Charlotte
North Carolina amen for our
international Leadership Conference this
year
come on clap
so you got plenty of time to get ready
for it and to call your cousin up in
Charlotte and telling she got company
coming over and and be a part of the
International Leadership Summit take a
look at this screen and you’ll know more
about it throughout the course of
history great men and women have
sacrificed the unimaginable to elevate
humanity and show us the untapped
potential of the human mind and heart
these great leaders share many of the
same traits the willingness to dream the
ability to inspire and the determination
to execute on their vision against all
odds when the key decisions were being
made they were in the room when crucial
strategies were being devised they were
in the room when laws that had the
potential to change the path of history
were being written they were in the room
they put themselves directly in the
rooms where change was happening to make
sure they didn’t end up stuck on the
outside confined to the wrong side of
history we stand on the shoulders of
these giants poised to fulfill the
promise of our potential
in every one of us there is a leader
waiting for the chance to emerge and
change the world for the better since
its inception the goal of the
International pastors and leadership
conference has always been to educate
and enlighten the leaders of tomorrow so
they may fulfill their potential and
make a lasting and possible mark on the
world over the years we have helped
thousands of people make their dreams a
reality and we have no intention of
stopping anytime soon but we also
recognize we’re in a time of rapid
change one where if you aren’t willing
or agile enough to adapt you will be
left behind to make an impact you must
not only be relevant but you must stay
relevant in order to do this we must
broaden our scope to ensure we are
addressing today’s most pressing issues
we must extend our reach to leaders from
every walk of life we must underscore
the huge importance of knowing how to
deftly navigate the obstacles of life so
the leaders of tomorrow can put
themselves in the room where the most
important change is happening
welcome to that room and welcome to the
international leadership summit
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every leader in the room make some noise
that’s good stuff that’s gonna stop mark
these dates down April 30th to made the
Sukkot
April 30th through made the second in
Charlotte North Carolina and if you go
to you can visit this is ILS org this is
ILS dot org to register and take
advantage of the special pre-sale price
of $99 a mare year that’s right that’s a
loo for the entire thing the early bird
special you can still get it and the
information is on the screen how you can
go right there – this is ILS dot org and
get the information that take advantage
of the early bird specials go ahead and
register register by faith
amen register by faith I’m not saying
that you ought to register and then
start coughing in April to get off work
I’m not saying nothin like that but just
registered by faith believe in God you
go get off work be a part of the
International Leadership Summit it’s
coming it’s coming it’s coming if you’re
watching online the same thing is true
for you you have an opportunity to avail
yourself though that this is ILS dot-org
right now and you can get that special
$99 special for registration for the
year
a man we’re excited about it we’re
believing God for it as we begin to
think and to understand and to recognize
who we are as leaders and it’s no no
accident that we’re talking about
leadership on Father’s Day cuz we need
more men that will take the lead and
stand up where my brothers have made
some noise
we need more men who are stand up and
take the lead and moving to your
rightful places and this this tug of war
that seems to be going on in society
about women and leadership versus men in
leadership let us celebrate the women
who have moved in the leadership I
celebrate the women that have moved into
power I celebrate the women who can go
and get the bacon and fry it up in the
pan and do all that kind of stuff but
that doesn’t mean you replace us let’s
not get that twisted amen
you can stand beside us but don’t don’t
let this feminism Drive you to the point
that you replace us there’s still
something that men bring to the table
that’s it a class all by themselves come
on talk to me somebody come on talk to
me somebody
amen amen and I believe there’s still
enough women in the room who appreciate
a strong man that you’re your
you’re not looking for the little weak
mama’s boy
who won’t stand up and take the thority
you’re looking for a man who can handle
his own and get things done so that when
we say I got your back you know that
your back is covered because you got a
good come on talk to me
a man a man and you cannot be the man
that you need to be and you cannot be
the woman that you need to be and you
cannot be the leader or even the person
that you need to be without God in your
life he makes a difference he makes a
difference he makes a difference he
makes a difference I don’t care whether
you’re leading in the church I’m leading
in the world or leading an ice-cream
cone stand you need God in your life to
give you the strength to stand up
against the wiles of the devil you’re
fighting the wiles of the devil
talk to me somebody glory to God the
greater is he that is in you
then he that said the world can I get a
witness in here glory to God I want him
in my everything I want to remember my
everything I want him in my decisions I
want him in my choices I want him to get
in my friendships in my relationship I
want him in my finances I want him in my
401k
amen and all the other alphabets I want
God and everything I want him to take my
stuff and like the two fish and five
loaves of bread and multiply the world
might be having a recession but I’m not
having one I refuse to participate I’m
going to the next level is anybody going
with me
is anybody going with
is anybody going with you you might have
a recession I’m going to have a
progression going further and further
and higher and higher in the Lord I
still believe that this is your year
y’all ain’t talking about to me I still
believe that this is your year I believe
it’s your year now I know a lot of stuff
happened
people get sick cars break down people
die that’s life life is going to be life
I don’t care what year it is but in the
midst of all hell breaking loose
I still declare this is your year and no
weapon formed against you shall be able
to prosper don’t let the devil talk you
out of your dream I said don’t let the
devil talk to you out of your dream who
am I talking to this morning
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say hey will somebody tell him I swear
God’s gonna bless you
yeah I swear God’s gonna bless you I
swear a God’s gonna bless you you don’t
know it but you’re quoting scriptures
when you say that God said that himself
he said I swear I’m gonna bless you I
swear I’m gonna bless you I swear I’m
gonna bless you I swear I swear I’m not
a man that I should laugh God said I
swear I’m gonna bless you
oh I feel a praise in this place right
now
go with a job o clap your hands all ye
people
thousands God with the voice of fire
people shouted the God with the voice of
God
handy people God with the voice of
triumph
the voice of crime before the prize
[Applause]
over to God glory to God glory to God
glory to God glory to God
glory to God
the Lord spoke to me the other day and
he said I’ve set before you an open door
and gods brought some new doors and some
new opportunities into my life and I
know they’re there and I see that
they’re there but I’ve been kind of
procrastinating about it because
sometimes our opportunity so be that you
make excuses anybody know what I’m
talking about
I got me a real good Wofford now of the
day saying stop making excuses and walk
on in that door I don’t know whether you
need that or not but stop making excuses
and walking in that door
if you want it God’s got it [ __ ] their
head somebody
[Applause]
I have seen the Lord say some things
this year and I’ve seen some people walk
into my office and say some things to me
that if I told you you would almost
think I was crazy when they said it to
me and almost from now I almost thought
they were crazy amen
cigar to give you a blessing that’s hard
for you to believe come on somebody
he’ll open up a door wear it leave your
mouth hanging open saying Lord how can
these things be how can these things be
that’s what Mary said how can these
things be singers I know not a man glory
to God and then she said nevertheless be
it unto me according to thy word I need
some nevertheless people in here
I’m talking about promotions that you
weren’t trained for jobs she weren’t
supposed to get houses she weren’t
supposed to be able to buy I’ve talked
about God opening up some doors for some
people that are ready to walk by faith
talk to me somebody I’m ready to go in
and take back what the enemy stole from
me shout yeah somebody I said I’m ready
to go back and take back what the enemy
stole from me shout hallelujah let me
hurry up and reach out field
it’s offering time in the sanctuary I’m
gonna move this service along something
wrong so that we can get into the Word
of God it is in my offering and in my
tithe that my faith becomes tangible
until I actually give my faith is just
talkable when i activate my giving my
faith becomes tangible come on somebody
our tangible evidence that I believe God
that I expect God to show that I’m in
business with God I’m in business with
God you know that I’m in business we got
sitting with me God is my partner if you
mess with me you gotta mess with my
partner
when I bring the tithe I am saying to
the devil I am in business with God God
said I will do business with you if
you’ll just remember me with 10% of
everything I bless you with God said I
will be in business with you and I will
cost your feets not to cash their fruit
before their time I’ll cost your lease
not to wither
I’ll cost you to prosper glory to God
because you’re in business with God I
said you’re in business with God and
then you’ve got to be careful to
remember to acknowledge him in all your
ways because sometimes you’ll get happy
and get beside yourself and think that
you did it but you didn’t get there by
yourself God brought you there and then
some people think that their job did it
but suppose the job goes down there are
some people in this room the job went
down but they kept on eating every day
because God supplied all of their needs
according to his riches and glory if
your job what’s your only source should
have been cut off but thanks be on God
who gives us the victory through Jesus
Christ our Lord I want to pray over your
seat today you’re watching online I want
to believe God with you as you prepare
to soul into the kingdom of God you’re
gonna need a faith to break that yolk
that Yoga is not gonna break without
faith it’s not gonna break because
you’ve killed it’s not gonna break
because you’ve got a degree there are
people sleeping up under bridge got a
degree there are people locked up in
prison got a degree it’s going to break
because you’re in business with God you
need to set your affections on things
that are above talk to me somebody
glory to God I expect something to
happen in this place glory to God giving
you a moment to get ready get your
tithes and give your offerings and
acknowledge the Lord with your substance
this is warship 2 it’s not just about
singing and dancing that’s the mistake
Israel made don’t sit with your lips you
draw nigh unto me but your heart is far
from me in other words God said you talk
a good game but when it really comes to
put up and shut up all of a sudden
you’re missing in action
lord have mercy if the church had a
dollar for every dance if we had a
dollar for every hallelujah and every
thank you Jesus the church for the next
three generations would be paid for and
thank you Jesus is run like running
water glory to God but let me tell you
what you do with your money is an
indication of what you do with your
heart
you find money for what you love and
somebody tells you they love you and
they don’t ever give you nothing don’t
you believe it if somebody tells you
they love you and they don’t ever give
you anything don’t you believe it
love will always give itself away even a
little child will come home and give us
maman a picture of drawing you might not
know what it is but this hit look what I
made you mama
coz love is about giving talk to me
somebody love is about giving God so
loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son that whosoever believeth on
him shall not perish but have
everlasting life love is about giving
young people hear me love is about
giving love is about giving it’s not
about blinking it’s not about likes it’s
not about more followers love is about
giving talk to me somebody love is about
giving love is about giving God so loved
that he gained he so loved that he gave
when you so love you go give glory to
God glory to God
sisters don’t don’t go for his wallet
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go for his heart if you go for his heart
all right I told the secret I’m sorry
I’m sorry brothers if you get that heart
that wallet is gonna come right with it
there’s zombies twins they’re tired
together amen the people who love drugs
always find money for drugs people like
liquor always find money for liquor
people like strip clubs they’d go to the
strip club I got no job
stealing the strip club talk about I’m
gonna make it rain you’re gonna make it
rain Amy’s gonna do it ain’t my bra
people support what they love how many
people here to hear love Jesus already
gotta get your tithes and your offerings
to stand up on your feet now I want to
pray over the things that you believe in
God to do in your life I want to believe
God with you I want to stand in covenant
with you I want to pray with you and
agree with you that you will have the
courage to walk into every opportunity
that God is about to release in your
life the courage the courage it takes
courage to be blessed
it takes courage to be blessed I want
you to have the courage to be blessed
glory to God I want to pray the spirit
of prosperity of you the spirit of
prosperity prosperity has a spirit with
it
millionaires and billionaires go
bankrupt and then open up another
business and they’re back on top again
and I’m up because they have a spirit of
prosperity you say how did they go
bankrupt and then open up a blue chain
and store they have a spirit of
prosperity are you ready to receive a
spirit of prosperity the Bible said I
wish above all things that you prosper
and being good health as your soul does
prosper father God in the name of Jesus
I joined my faith with the faith of this
congregation and all of those that are
viewing online but the spirit of
prosperity would fall upon us I mean
that kind of spirit that is more than
money that kind of spirit that includes
good help that kind of spirit that
includes good judgment that kind of
spirit that includes good energy what
good is it to have an opportunity and
not have the energy to walk in and take
the opportunity whatever the hindrance
has been that has held us back from
receiving everything that you have for
it I rebuke it right now in the name of
Jesus and as we wave our times before
you as we give all over the world as we
saw across the country as we show from
other country we stand in alignment
because faith knows no distance it knows
no boundaries
it carries nothing about state lines or
country lines or sea shores faith will
go anywhere in a fast
release the faith of God and let it flow
in this place I receive it now in Jesus
name
shout a man you may be seated
glory to God our professional ministry
technicians are in place of neural and
cue they’re ready to serve you in the
spirit of excellence you ready to give
to God shout Alleluia serve the people
of God
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simple song come on
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so good
real good each and every day
Oh
we’re gonna put those hands together
pilot
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sound real good
[Applause]
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I’m with Leslie Lord at all times
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he’s good so good
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yeah yeah
[Applause]
[Music]
mr. right there
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I will bless you
I will
[Applause]
I will
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for hee
[Applause]
I will bless the Lord at all times where
he’s good
grab your Bibles and jump up on your
feet as we go to the book of Genesis
chapter number 3 verses 8 through 11
we’re gonna play a little hide and go
seek this morning you ready for it we’re
in the book of Genesis chapter number 3
verse 8 to 11 when you haven’t say man
you’re still looking say wait on me
alright y’all ready today forgive me for
jumping right into the middle of this
text into the middle of this story but I
wanted to extrapolate those passages of
scripture that are most relevant to my
assignment today and I want you to pray
for me because I am on assignment this
morning
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I got a word from the Lord today and a
mandate and a responsibility to deliver
this word to the people of God I’m
excited about it I’m praying about it
and I wanted to do everything that God
told me it was going to do amen we just
go play a little hide and don’t see
Genesis chapter three verse eight and
they heard the voice of the Lord God
walking in the garden in the cool of the
day and Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the Lord amongst
the trees amongst the trees of the
garden and the Lord God called on Adam
and said unto Him where art thou and he
said I heard that voice in the garden I
was afraid because I was naked
and I hid myself he said who told you
that you would make it has our eaten of
the tree whereof I commanded thee that
thou sittest not to eat I heard that
voice in the garden I was scared I was
naked
am I
I hid
myself what a thing to hide
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I hid myself my subject is
hide-and-go-seek
[Applause]
father have your way in this place
saturate this place with your anointing
in your presence move in such a
supernatural way that lives of hearts
have changed at the same time that
broken places are mended in crooked
places or Main Street I think you’re in
advance for what you’re going to do have
your way in the midst of your people
today in the name of Jesus we pray
somebody shouted say Amen you may be
seated in the presence of God now
because half of my church’s Millennials
I have to explain my subject
big because you grew up playing with
toys that had batteries plugged up or
were automated electronic had a boy but
before there were apps and before there
were Apple telephones and before there
was all of these gadgets that you grew
up playing with we played a game called
hide and go seek
now if all the rich people here I’m
gonna have to explain it to you because
hide-and-go-seek is a game you play when
you don’t have no money
[Applause]
you don’t have no money you don’t have
no toys and your cousins came over and
you and your mom and put you out of the
house because the house was hot and told
you to go outside and play and gave you
nothing to play with so you had to make
up games like hi Josie cuz she told you
don’t come back in this house the house
was hot you had one fan the old folks
had it she didn’t want you going in and
out the screen door shut the screen door
don’t be lettin them flies in the house
once you get outside stay outside
but when he when the street lights come
on him
y’all don’t know nothin about that and
so there was a game we would play call
hide-and-go-seek and I grew up in West
Virginia where we had big trees you
would go and somebody would stand over
by the tree and put their face up
against the tree and start counting one
two and they’d count and while they
counted everybody would run and hide and
when they got to a certain number they
would turn around and start seeking that
which was hidden
you might hide up on the rock you might
hide up under a bush you might hide in
the basement or behind a rock somewhere
a closed door anywhere you could get
covering because you didn’t want to be
discovered you wanted to hide yourself
in our text today there’s almost as if
God is playing hide-and-go-seek with
Adam when the Bible talks about that
they they saw that they were naked they
hid themselves they hid themselves they
saw that they were naked they hid
themselves but when God got ready to
talk he didn’t talk today
[Applause]
he talked to the men he talked to the
man he he said he said Adam where where
are you you must understand that the
voice of the Lord walked through the
cool of the garden God broke his Sabbath
day rest it was broken by the weekend
sins of mankind the voice of the father
struck terror in the Sun it struck
terror in the Sun and made him go into
hiding and when he went into hiding he
hid himself from God without that
happening there’s a there’s a there’s an
ache in the heart of a man a voice of
leadership a voice of discipline a voice
of authority is important in the life of
even a young man somebody whose voice
gets a different response that voice of
authority that voice of power makes a
difference generally it’s the voice of
the father not always but generally it’s
the voice of a father and all of a
sudden you have this feeling inside of
yourself like you’ve been busted it has
to be somebody in whom you have high
regard it has to be somebody that you
really respect without that they’re in
your life there’s something missing
inside of your life without that there
there’s an eight for some compass or
guide through which approval doesn’t
come easy but it’s yet attainable it
doesn’t come easy but it’s attainable
one of the things we do with young men
we mess them up when we clap too fast
you need to make me work for it you need
to make me strive for it you need to you
need to make me extend myself because
when I extend myself I discover myself
and my in my house Mama’s applaud came
easy oh my little baby look at my little
bear look at my little man there to play
all of your boo boo
but daddy didn’t clap so fast he didn’t
clap so easy he didn’t he didn’t move so
quickly you had you had to work for it
that’s very important in the development
of who we are as men it’s very important
in fact Adam said I need there’s four
things that he said he said I heard thy
voice now it’s clear that Adam knows
God’s voice the Bible said my sheep know
my voice o stranger they will not follow
he said I heard thy voice I know I know
it was you I heard thy voice
I was afraid not reverence in fact the
Bible says the fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom and so he says I was
afraid I was afraid I was afraid because
I was naked exposing oneself doesn’t
come easy to most men
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it’s Father’s Day exposing oneself
doesn’t come easy to most men I’m not
talking about physical exposure I’m
talking about emotional exposure I’m
talking about vulnerabilities I’m
talking about who we really are
that doesn’t come easily because we are
afraid and anytime we are afraid we
number four we had ourselves so I heard
that boy so number two I was afraid
number three I was naked number four I
hid myself hiding who we are
we’ve done or even what we think is
common amongst men and when you start
talking about hiding yourself you’re
tying into the substratum of what I want
to talk to you about today because it
was the hidden reality of the man that
caused God to walk through the cool of
the garden God started walking and when
man started hiding he’s after you he’s
searching for you he’s looking for you
it all started it didn’t start with this
it started with the tree and I’m calling
the tree hidden love because God has
placed Adam and then pull Eve out of
Adam into this utopia this this
beautiful utopia and environment
surrounded with flowers and fruits and
vegetables and trees and bushes and
plants and streams and waterfalls and
creeks and oceans and the sound of
crashing water against dashing against
solid rocks he has set them in an
atmosphere in an environment that is so
beautiful and so picturesque and so
opulent to the eye that that they could
stay there for absolute ever he has
given them everything they don’t have to
work they don’t have to labor a mist
comes up out of the ground water sir
they don’t have to do anything
everything is self-sustaining but God is
wise enough to know that anytime you
give us everything
you’re gonna have problems with us
invent that better that in order to
really train us and discipline us we we
become men by what we don’t do a man
that’ll do anything is not a man there
are to be some things that you
absolutely will not do they may not be
the same things as a person next to you
but every man in this room ought to have
some boundaries around his life that
says I have struggles our human I’m
frail I’m weak but this I will not do
and that I will not do there needs to be
some boundaries somewhere that that’s
that’s part of what being a man is all
about so God gave him a tree and said
you can have anything except this tree
right here don’t touch this tree but
don’t touch this tree is discipline and
discipline is necessary for you to be a
disciple you cannot be a disciple
because you clap you can only be a
disciple when you have discipline and
the tree was in the garden to provide
discipline because discipline for a man
is love anytime you get away with
anything do anything anytime anywhere go
anywhere come back when you get ready to
leave whenever you please you don’t have
to come home you go anywhere because as
a child not to feel loved as long as it
is as much as they fuss about as much as
and complain about it as much as they
get in your face about it there’s
something about being disciplined that
says I matter
you’re concerned about me when you turn
me loose and say I don’t care when you
come back I don’t care what you eat I
don’t care where you sleep I don’t care
where you go you do whatever you want to
do behind all of that freedom is the
feeling of being unloved unrestrained
lack of discipline lascivious behavior
causes men especially as children not to
feel loved not to feel safe not to have
a sense of belonging so whether you
recognize it or not the tree is really
hidden love it’s tough love it’s
dangerous to have a life with no rules
the rules are the place where you learn
temperance the rules are the place where
you learn respect the rules are the
place where you learn boundaries and if
you have no rules you have no boundaries
and if you don’t have them as a boy
you’re out not to have them as a man
talk to me somebody
the tree is the pruning place for the
man it is a pruning place for the man
where you cut off flesh and curiosity
and just because you’re curious doesn’t
mean you have to do it you will notice
that even though the woman was a
partaker of the fruit the forbidden
fruit the woman ate from the tree but
humanity did not fall when women ate I
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know you want to be the same about
everything but in the Bible I’m talking
about the Word of God I’m not talking
about the times that we’re living in
right now the Word of God said when the
woman ate nothing fell it was when the
man ate it was when the man ate from the
tree when the man had no boundaries when
he had no discipline when he had no
order all of humanity fell when the man
ate from the tree oh I want it I want to
help you just give you a little time
with this this bought it go to Romans
5:12 if you will and because I want to
prove that Romans 5:12 and take a quick
look at that Romans 5:12 Romans 5:12
wherefore as by one man sin by one man
by one man sin entered into the world
not by woman but by one man sin entered
into the world and death by sin so death
passed upon all men for that all have
sinned that’s why when I get to heaven
I’m gonna slap Adam
just one good slap just one good slap we
had it good Adam blew everything there
would have been no alarm clocks there
would have been no unions there would
have been no sweat of your brow that
have been no working there with no
payroll
there have been no FICA taxes to pay
they’re a bit low nothing to argue about
Adam messed up everything for everybody
one man one man failing to be proven
failing to be disciplined by the tree
brought us all down I know this whenever
I sit with my children and and and we
sit around the table if we sit around
the table long enough they they tell
what I call daddy stories and they got a
lot of them and they start whipping out
one after another talk about stuff I did
and they make me sound like an ogre
daddy didn’t take my stuff and daddy
said listen daddy didn’t do this daddy
wouldn’t let me go here daddy wouldn’t
got me from here and daddy said so and
so and so and so and Danny got to me and
daddy got on there daddy got a and the
funny thing about it is they were
talking about it as if I wasn’t over but
they’re happy
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they’re not talking about it like
they’re in therapy if they need recovery
they’re not talking about it sure where
I hit him in the head with it I stop my
talking about and kind of crazy kind of
stuff like that they’re talking about it
from the perspective of having
boundaries and they see me enjoy it then
what really got weird I thought it was
just you all it was just my natural kids
but even amongst my spiritual sons when
they get together they start swapping
these stories about me getting in their
face about something getting in their
face about their sermon pitching their
sermon apart I told one preacher I told
him you’re too smart to preach that Doug
I told him you’re Olympic swimmer
swimming in shallow water
I picked the sermon apart I said then
stop preaching about sparkplug said at
metaphors and letting the metaphor be
bigger than the message and I picked his
message apart he said I picked it apart
so bad that he said he had to put the
phone on milk because he was crying and
he didn’t want me to hear it say you
don’t want me to marry you
he was crying he was crying over the
phone as I beat the sermon apart and
told him how sorry it was until you can
do better than this
you’re smarter than this you’ve got more
in you than that it’s not acceptable why
did you go off on that rabbit trail I
didn’t have anything to do with the
message you got lost in the middle of it
get yourself together bring yourself
here
cord nature Peck organized your theology
pull yourself up I’m talking about the
way you deal with me even my daughter my
daughter Sarah sent me something she
wrote one to have and I was busy and I
was working and I can be abrupt I’m not
mean it makes me sound mean even when I
tell it G but I told her she sent me
some I said I was in California when I
read and I really kind of quit and I
said Sarah I said I don’t even know what
you’re talking about it this is it
doesn’t make any sense it’s
discombobulated it’s disorganized it’s
out of water I said I don’t get it I
don’t get you need to rewrite this
fast-forward she ended up writing a book
when she wrote the book I told her I
called her and I got her voicemail and I
said Sarah I read the book I was gonna
read the book because I’m your father
and that’s what we do when my girls were
cooking I eat everything they cook
whether they were good or not it’s the
one I’m still breathing
the mama would needed Serena would not
eat that you don’t you can you know you
didn’t need that stuff I hate everything
I hate everything cooked half cook sort
of cooked I hate everything they did so
I was reading the book because she was
my daughter I said but when I started
reading it I couldn’t put it down I said
the rhythm in which she wrote the
articulation of your speech the way in
which it flowed was so eloquent that I
couldn’t stop reading it and she called
me by his she said daddy she said I want
to keep this message forever she said I
want to keep it forever
she said it touched me so deeply and
then she told me something that taught
me she said what major compliment have
validity is the criticism that preceded
it
she said I couldn’t trust what you said
to be good if I didn’t know that you
have the courage to tell me when I’m bad
and so y’all don’t hear what I’m saying
to you so it’s a it’s important that you
understand that discipline in the life
of a child gives them the feeling of
being loved and being safe of being
secure and being able to trust you
everything I do is not good you’ll never
get better with people always applauding
you who needs a coach that just
complements you tends to how good you
are how wonderful you are and boys sit
around they get to talking one by one
they start telling story what I’m
sitting up looking at me now I ain’t
gonna point him out in the crowd but he
said I embarrassed him on national TV
and told him what he did was stupid it
was stupid he was so mad at me he got a
picture of him looking at me later like
he was gonna jump on me he said look at
the way I’m looking at you like I’m
gonna jump on you I said look at the way
I’m looking back at you like I I wish
and the brother who was mad enough to
jump on me and beat me up has now joined
this church follows me around everywhere
I go because discipline for a man means
she love me he had the sense to
understand the reason I was in your face
was because I didn’t want you dead I
didn’t want to bury you and I was afraid
for you and I challenge the way you did
stuff because I care about you
unrestrained action is not good are you
hearing what I’m saying
are you hearing what I’m saying
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dr. Campbell of a well-known clinical
psychologist did an article in The
Huffington Post and she lists about 8
things 8 traits of children who have
been disciplined and I’m gonna give you
those 8 things really quick that shows
you what discipline in the life of a
child does number one it gives them
self-control and maturity emotional
maturity is the ability to delay
gratification emotional maturity is the
ability to delay gratification it
teaches you how to wait that you don’t
get everything when you want it it gives
you a strategy and a structure this
means that the parenting has taught them
to keep commitments even when they are
no longer a new or exciting discipline
children can commit to doing what is
right even when they don’t feel like it
number two is empathy
it gives them empathy discipline
children are able to put themselves in
the shoes of someone else
emotional experience which allows them
to develop understanding and genuine
care this enables them to help someone
from a place of purity rather than
helping someone to meet their own agenda
oh wait on me I’m gonna step on your toe
before it’s over the reason we got all
of these these are these people running
around here players playing on all these
systems is that they had no discipline
[Applause]
number three it gives them the desire to
feel good discipline children have been
parented to know they are good and
because of this they are driven through
their own behaviors to maintain this
state of internal well-being feeling
good is their natural state which they
will always reach back for when they
when their lives get off track number
four and this is so important it teaches
them to be responsible children who have
been disciplined are motivated from
within to help around the house school
and in the world at large because they
see the value in contributing to the
whole rather than just thinking about
their own needs when you have discipline
you want to contribute you want to be an
asset you don’t want to be a liability
number five children who have been
disciplined are more apt to love
themselves children or discipline have
an internal sense of confidence in other
words confidence is derived from within
and not just from performance or outside
validation you don’t have to have a
thousand likes to like yourself they
have been learned correctly which makes
them see themselves as lovable worthy a
big love worthy of being honored because
they’ve been disciplined you would think
the more you babied them the more they
feel loved but the truth is the more you
discipline and set boundaries the more
they see themselves as lovable and worth
being loved
number six is accountable it makes him
accountable disciplined children she
says own up to their mistakes and are
more likely to make good choices because
they deserve to feel good ownership is
not seen as shameful but rather seen as
an opportunity to practice having good
character responsible children are
taught that being wrong
life is okay and just a part of the
process number seven they respect
authority so they’re not going to be all
up in the police officers face
they’re not gonna cuss out the school
teacher because their first encounter
with discipline was at home he gave them
structure he gave them order
he gave them boundaries they learned
stuff I know it’s old school I’m dating
myself but they learn things like yes
sir and no sir
and yes ma’am and no ma’am and it may I
have another cookie please number eight
children who have been disciplined are
happy they tend to be more happy people
they are pleasant to be around and have
an easy time making and sustaining
relationships they tend to be liked by
all age groups and are the kids other
parents which their kids could be all of
that comes from discipline all of that
comes out of this tree all of that comes
out of the Almighty showing us how the
father because he is fathering Adam he
is fathering Adam and his teaching Adam
values that will set the stage for the
entire rest of the human experience
Father’s Day often brings out unique
emotions it’s kind of a tough day I wish
they had it before Mother’s Day they
haven’t after Mother’s Day we have to
watch Mother’s Day
[Applause]
Father’s Day has a unique feeling to it
because not all of us had fathers not
all of us had present fathers not all of
us had good fathers not all of us had
Pleasant experiences with fathers and
now we’re living in a time whether we’re
the modern contemporary idea is that men
are optional just firm donors will do
because the thought today is just
because you can buy a house you can make
a home without us
and so when it comes to Father’s Day
it’s a bit of a hard sell it’s a hard
sell because so many men have messed it
up blowing it up shot it up and two
women as a recourse have developed
survival techniques to make it without
you and now they are proud to tell you
how much they don’t need you and short
that you don’t stay oh it’s quiet
what man wants to stay in the house
where your constant speeches I could
make it without you if you don’t want to
be here hit the door I got more
education I’ll make more money I could
do good all by myself I don’t need you
at all and then when they leave you
wonder why he left you talked him out of
the house and then cried because he was
gone
Father’s Day is a hard sell it brings
out all kinds of emotions because
because Adam saying I was afraid I was
naked I hid myself
I want to talk about men that high
I hid myself I showed you who you wanted
to see oh it’s gonna get quiet of you I
showed you what I thought you could
handle but I hid myself I hid myself is
one issue
I hate myself I was never really there
there’s not a man I’m gonna make a bold
statement there’s not a man in this room
that has not hid himself in some way
I know you’re uncomfortable
I’m pulling at your Pig leaves
[Applause]
but it’s gonna be alright there’s not a
man in this room that doesn’t understand
what I’m talking about I hid myself I
responded to you in a way that you have
taught me gets me rewarded
but I was not legitimately there because
I don’t think you could handle me so I
hear myself that’s one thing I hear
myself that didn’t get you think about
this I hear from myself I don’t even
talk to me about me
I hear from myself so don’t get mad cuz
I hid myself from you I hid myself from
me – I didn’t ask myself questions that
might get wrong answers I hid from
myself I hid behind my job I hid behind
my anger I hid behind my rage I hid
behind working out I hid behind my
intellectual capacity I hid behind how
much money I make I hid myself till I
hear from myself
some men hid by leaving I hid myself by
leaving
he got hard I quit I walk away I hid
myself by leaving and other me and say I
didn’t leave there’s a lot of men in
here didn’t leave not physically
[Applause]
truth of the matter is you’ve been gone
for years
[Applause]
you’ve been gone from years and don’t
nobody even know you’re gone
you hid while stay you buried yourself
beneath other things so you were there
but you were opposite I heard that voice
I was naked I was afraid I hear myself
you let me talk about anger for a minute
let me tell you what anger is one of the
feelings we hide behind anger is how we
hide dirt we don’t want to burst into
tears it is easier to get mad then it is
to express heard about what you don’t
know you think we’re a hothead no we’re
not a hothead
we’re heard hear but hot seems easier to
hide behind than to be naked and say I’m
hurt so I can hide by staying or I can
hide by leaving but I heard this is just
bad stuff yes it’s true I hide my
weaknesses but I hide my compliments too
there’s not a man in this room who
hadn’t thought something wonderful about
the woman he loves that he didn’t tell
her
because once you start hiding
you can’t control what all you had and
you built it to protect yourself but it
is up in prison your self and so we
don’t have to go to jail to be in prison
so the man you dreamed of is the man you
got but he’s hidden himself who Lord
Jesus acquired this morning long they
real quiet this morning one man just
turned blue the funny thing about men
and I’ve been counseled I’ve been
working with a lot of men who are going
through a lot of things right now one of
the most amazing things is that Adam
took these fig leaves and he hid his
loins he hid the most productive part of
himself
and I have found the funny things about
men is the parts we hide are the parts
that would make a difference in the
family that we had the most productive
part of ourselves and and and had behind
what we think is masculinity sometimes
we need to cry
sometimes we need to struggle sometimes
we need to let people know that it’s not
easy to be us sometimes we don’t get the
respect that we need or the accolades
that we need or the support that we need
because we hide that we needed and the
woman you married may not have been
raised around a man so she doesn’t know
how to read a man and the man she got
she cannot see because he he hid himself
if we would stop hiding for a moment in
this room you would be shocked at who we
are so God says Adam where are you
does that mean that God couldn’t see him
of course not it might mean that God
couldn’t recognize him and all of the
stuff he was hiding behind
I don’t recognize who you have become
I don’t recognize who you pretend to be
I don’t I don’t recognize this this
person that you’re acting like you are I
don’t recognize you where are you when I
left you you were naked when I came back
you were used with some strange creature
with leaves on walking around playing
the role cuz you scared that if anybody
saw you they wouldn’t love you anybody
got the courage to say man
[Applause]
that’s why we had we had because we
think if you saw us maybe you and loved
us so we had ourselves and we make stuff
up to cover us up we make up stuff we
got to do in places we gotta go and
things that gotta happen to hide
ourselves we get positions and jobs and
money and status or muscles or triceps
or girlfriends
to hide ourselves and she thinks you’re
with her cuz she’s sexy it ain’t because
she’s sexy
it’s because she covers you she covers
your vulnerabilities she covers what
you’re afraid of about yourself she
covers what happened to you she covers
the part of you that don’t feel so
strong and she tells you what you want
to hear and see is your fig leaves
I heard the voice I was naked
I was afraid what are you afraid of Adam
you’ve been making the whole show
adam has been naked the whole time he’s
never had a suit on in his life but he
didn’t know he was naked who told you
you was naked when he found out that you
could see him
he himself rarely or not
[Applause]
God is saying ready or not here I come
you know why we can’t really worship
good cuz we have ourselves so it’s
difficult for many men are really
getting lost in worship or we can act
like we’re in a football game and get
the rah rah going but if we get into
deep warship with tears and praise and
your heart is open and you gotta be
naked before him leave us out so we can
draw wrong oh no like we’re a football
game we look for that but if we have to
be naked emotionally and vulnerable and
exposed oh no that’s for the women so
our idea of a great praise service is
noise I heard that voice I was afraid I
hid myself we can live and die and never
be known
you can grieve over the death of a
father you never really met you met who
he showed you you met her we showed you
you met her we showed you because most
of the man in this room don’t even feel
like anybody even knows who they really
are
clap if I’m talking about you
I hid myself means I lost myself well
all of this happens from Adams
relationship with the tree partaking of
a fruit from a tree makes him aware of
stuff about him that he wasn’t aware of
and he’s scared of himself scared I’m
not good enough scared I’m not smart
enough scared I don’t have enough scared
I’m getting older scared I can’t impress
you like I used to scared I’m not the
same man you fell in love with scared
I’m not valuable to you scared of what I
think and scared of what runs through my
mind is scared of what happened to me
and scared of what I’ve been through so
I hid myself that’s why I get high
that’s why I get drunk
it’s how I’m looking for you hey Adam
I’m looking for neck of you I’m looking
for open you I’m looking for feeling you
I’m looking for you alive and real and
present and vulnerable Adam where are
you you hid your vulnerabilities cuz you
need to act like nothing gets to you so
you hid your vulnerabilities because you
thought if anybody saw you they would
want you and I’m looking for you
your son is looking for you not who you
pretend to be he’s looking for you so he
can figure out who he is
he doesn’t understand who he is because
he’s not like this caricature that you
painted of yourself your firm is looking
for you your God is looking for you is
looking for you see a drop with somebody
that you used to be she couldn’t find
you
seven eight ten ready or not what the
negev you the nervous you the worry you
the crying you the confused and broken
you the upset you the you that can’t
sleep at night the you that’s walking
the floor the using planets with you
the using contemplate suicide looking
for you don’t you know don’t you know
that I love you not who you pretend to
be
Adam I don’t recognize his church boys
game you playing I didn’t die for this
church boy you play while you were yet
sinners Christ commended his love toward
us in that he died for us while we were
naked he died for the person you are
hiding he shed his blood for the guy
you’re trying to convince him that
you’re not and you’re up at two o’clock
in the morning venting who you really
are because daylight can’t catch you and
if God is looking for you
and your sons and your daughters are
looking for you and your wife is looking
for you
sometimes even you
you’re fooling with them but you’re
looking for you you’re fooling with her
but you’re looking for you messing with
him but you’re looking for
oh they quiet just just like you said
they was gonna be
he thinks you’re looking for him no you
looking for you
she thinks it’s about her
no you looking for you you know how
you’re looking for you cuz your daddy
was looking for him to six seven eight
nine ten ready or not
hi or not suicidal
or not gay or not
adulterous or not drunk or not here
this is a man big it’s a man thing one
man the father of all men and everything
came in to the family through him it’s a
man thing and it comes up in his boys
Cain and Abel
[Music]
because the father has been on sour
grapes the teeth of the children are
said on the edge and what you mad at him
about you cost
it’s a bits man thing one man in the
sight of God there are only two men in
the sight of God I swear to you it’s
only two men the first man Adam yep and
the last man Adam and either you’re born
in the first one or you’re born in the
last one but there are only there are
only two men and both of them got this
thing going on with the tree
[Applause]
the first man Adam died because he ate
from their tree the last man Adam lives
because he was hard
on a tree why do you think Jesus died on
a tree when they beat him bad enough he
should have died on the whipping post
but had he bad on the whipping post he
wouldn’t have broke the curse that was
on the first man Adam because it was not
about a whipping post it was always
about a tree so Jesus had to die on a
tree into your hands you don’t have to
pitch yourself you don’t have to bother
yourself you don’t have to yourself
Adam before you destroy yourself come
out come out where wherever you are
whatever you’re into whatever you did
[Applause]
Adam if you come out of hiding I can fix
it
[Applause]
Adam Adam you don’t have to be this
unhappy Adam you don’t have to be this
miserable you don’t have to make your
own clothes already see you I’ve already
seen you Adam I love you with an
everlasting love you can’t fool me with
your feet leaves out up cover yourself
is dying
why are you stitching it and that’s why
the relationships keep falling apart
because they big leaves and big leaves
always die when you pull them away from
the roots and if I if I could ask God
for anything this morning
I would ask God to give the men in this
room the courage
just just the courage just the courage
just the courage to come naked I’m kind
of crazy but here I come I’m kind of
wacko but here I come
I’m kind of depressed but here I come
I’m kind of scared but here I come I’m
getting older I don’t know what to do
with it I don’t know how to handle it
I define myself I stuff this change in
me and I’m scared to death and I can’t
talk to anybody but here I come I’m
young and I thought I’d be further than
I am right now and I can’t get a job and
I can’t get up on my feet but here I
come I’m afraid I got too much of my
mama hear me I give up too easy I run
too fast
but here I come I’m coming to you you
see the problem with Adam is said God
was raising Adam because Adam never had
a childhood
[Applause]
he never got to be a little bullfight
he got thrust into a position of
authority so fast and he never got to
have a childhood and so God is using the
story not to raise a little boy he’s
trying to raise a man who’s got a little
boy down on the inside I know you didn’t
get everything you was supposed to get
but I still love you
and if you come out I’ll fix you about
you I know you saw too much too soon
I know you went through too much too
fast I know you were exposed to stuff
you should have been exposed to and I
know you’re a grown man and you never
got to be a little boy but I swear I
can’t promise you came in April but I
want you I want you I want you cuz you
didn’t get all those made steps you
didn’t get all that stuff and now you’re
trying to be what you didn’t see and
you’re playing a role that you have no
scrip for and you don’t know how to
really be a father because you’ve never
really had one
come on come out wherever you are
come out dyslexic come out not reading
will come out and didn’t do well in
school come out come out wherever you
are come out with your molested self you
can’t have enough women to take away the
memories of what happened to you
[Applause]
come out
[Music]
wherever you are leave him alone
Lena no come out
come on man
[Applause]
come on boo
Kubo
come on man I know what it feels like to
be you I know what it feels like to be
you you know you sit back with your
Brioni suit on Adam I don’t care nothing
about your food cut out you in the gym
every day I see your triceps and your
boss I don’t care come on come on
[Applause]
and so for Father’s Day I thought we
play hide and go seek justice fellas
this is guys
we know the real deal we know the real
deal I’m not preaching it cuz I’m better
than you
I’m preaching it because I’m one of you
yeah I’m one of you
[Applause]
[Music]
give it to me Jesus is calling where are
you please call whatever you got on
whatever is right what happens wrong
[Music]
Jesus is :
Jesus is : he’s cold you see as long as
Adam stayed behind the fig leaves he
couldn’t get what God had for it
as long as Adam stayed behind that
workload
he couldn’t get what God had for him as
long as Adam hid behind his money or his
riches or his muscle or his penis
[Applause]
ain’t you tired I want every man this
child I want every man this sick and
tired of being sick and tired
this is what I got you for Father’s Day
this is your father station
[Applause]
this is your father thank you
[Applause]
this is your father’s thank you
[Music]
I got you the truth I got you the truth
for Father’s Day I got you the truth for
Father’s Day I got you the truth for
Father’s Day and I don’t care what you
did and I don’t care who you did it with
and I don’t care what you are and I
don’t care if you positive or negative
or scared to get tested I’m calling you
out
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
hold it just one second I’m gonna go
back to it in just a minute
the only thing I asking you the only
thing I ask you easy either stay there
with your clothes on or come to this
altar
naked and open and vulnerable and real
and real just real just real can we just
be real can we just eat real for a
minute
can we just be real for a minute can you
forsake the facade for a minute can you
forsake the facade for a minute you
don’t have an anger problem you have a
heart problem you have a broken problem
you have a stand problem you have the
worry problem you have a lonely problem
don’t nobody knows you don’t nobody know
you cut you all a dime see you
[Applause]
everything’s anything in here that’s
tired of it all and you want to see help
this morning
ready or not here I come
[Music]
ready or not
press in tight cuz it’s a bunch of y’all
press in tight because see the devil’s
been telling you that you’re the only
one and the devil is a liar the devil is
a liar he tells all of us he tells me to
you’d only want you’re not alone it’s
all of us it’s every last one of us is
every breathing thinking one of us one
night I ran over into the room where my
wife was and I said I want to tell you
something while I can talk and it was
something wonderful and there was
something beautiful and I was sitting
over there in my gentleman’s quarters
wondering why I don’t say it cuz even
when it’s good I don’t say
and I got a window or grace where I
could talk and I thought don’t say
nothing just let me come talk because
we’re naked don’t come easy
Oh YouTube mission yeah me too that’s
why I can describe you so good very few
women could preach this message you have
to be the man you have to be you have to
be one of us
to understand us the thing you must
understand is that Adam didn’t get to
grow up he got all his stuff
thrust on him he never got to grow up
and he’s hiding the fact then he’d hoped
that what he do and he’s trying to be a
leader and he doesn’t know what he’s
doing
this is your day this is a night this is
your death this is why God watching you
so you could have this one this is what
you couldn’t find nowhere else
Brizzy you may go 10 years before you’re
in another service like this and if you
let the devil talk to you out of coming
to this altar then you deserve what
you’re feeling still to you if there’s
another man in this room that needs this
touch from God come right now
come right now
he loves you he loves you you’ve doubted
it and wondered it but he loves you he
loves you he cares about you he cares
about you the real you know real you too
complicated you that complicated you
that confuse you the broken you the best
of you the parson don’t go together that
don’t make no sense that you wonder why
not this and that and the other hand
[Music]
he wants you to open up your heart and
open up your spirit and come alive again
and feel again and wake up again and
behold and be well and you are running
out of time you are running out of time
you gotta get this right you gotta get
this right you gotta get this right
you’re running out of time if you don’t
get this time you’re not gonna get it if
you don’t get this time you’re not gonna
get it if you don’t get this time you’re
not gonna get it
[Applause]
[Music]
you running out of time
you runnin out of town you wanna don’t
you see don’t you see this don’t you see
don’t you see don’t you see you’re
killing yourself working yourself to
death hide yourself running from
yourself
I heard that bliss I knew there was a
call of my life
I heard that voice but I didn’t come cuz
I was naked if I come you don’t know
what I’ll mess you don’t get when you
get me I’m an idiot and I was afraid
because I didn’t want to mess it up I
hid myself and I’m running out of life
running out and I don’t even know how to
begin to open up my heart cuz I’ve been
hiding them under these feet me so long
that I don’t even know how to get in
touch with myself but I’m standing here
at this altar to say I want to I want to
I want to I want to try to get this out
I want to open up I want to be free I
want to be hold I want to be better I
want to be better I want to be happy I
want to be whole I want to have that
confidence I wouldn’t have all that
stuff that I should have got then I
didn’t get I wanted if I can still get
it God said I’ll give it to you I
restore what the taker worms and the
locusts and the parlor worms ate up God
said I’ll give it back to you I’ll show
you how to be responsible I’ll show you
how to be responsible I’ll show you how
to be resourceful I’ll show you I’ll
show you how to be accountable I’ll show
you how to be happy I’ll show you how to
be relational I’ll show you how to open
up I’ll show you how to open up you
learn this [ __ ] up you learn to say
nothing
that’s a learn behavior it’s a learned
behavior if you can learn it you cannot
learn it open your mouth open your mouth
open your mouth open your mouth to God
open your mouth
for God’s sake open your mouth before
you blow your brains out open your mouth
before you shoot yourself in the head
open your mouth
before you give up a life it’s
open your mouth open your mouth open
your mouth man open your mouth open your
heart up to God open your heart up to
God the hidden part the hidden man of
the heart
the part that hides it runs the part
that nobody sees the part that’s empty
and lonely and tired and thirsty the
part that’s been beat down and cussed
out and frosted and complained that to
the point that they had talked you in
the silence open your mouth
lip your hands and open your mouth and
show the devil you got a voice
show the devil you gotta boys show the W
gotta balls
so the devil you got aboard show that
never you gotta book I still got a voice
this poor man cried and the Lord heard
him and delivered him out of her all his
troubles this poor man cried and the
Lord heard him and delivered him out all
his trouble
[Music]
hallelujah
I’m coming out of these jiggly’s
hallelujah drop it out of these grave
clothes hallelujah
[Music]
I lay my hands on me as a father water
son
I lay my hands on where you wake I leave
my hands all your depression I leave my
hands on your pain I lay my hands on
your damage masculine spirit receive a
touch just a touch just a touch from God
that’s what we wanted to touch from God
and if you call let me him he’ll call
over you and if you show yourself to him
he’ll show himself to you he’ll show
himself to you if you show yourself to
him he’ll show himself to you he’ll do
it he’ll do it he knows about your sins
and he knows about your secrets and he
knows about your struggles and he still
loves you and he still wants you and
it’s time for you to open up your heart
and allow the Lord to come in
[Applause]
[Music]
i prophesy to you this day that you will
never be the same again then you will
never be the same again that you will
never be the same again
that you will never be the same again i
prophesy to you that you will not die
and be a secret and nobody know who you
are you will not live and die and be a
secret and nobody loved who you really
are I promise I to you that you will not
live your life and nobody ever touched
who you really are
Oh somebody ought to give God some glory
in this place
[Applause]
somebody ought to give God some glory in
this place
[Applause]
[Music]
some of us are exhausted because we’re
torn between our wives and our mamas and
they are pulling us apart and both of
them think they own me and some of us
are torn apart because we are so angry
and our fathers even though we do the
same thing we are angry at him about
dawn let it out let it out let it out
let it out let it out let it out let it
out let it out let it out let it out let
it out no no no no no no no no no no no
no no you don’t know no no no you not
gonna get that close to deliver and sit
back get out
you won’t get out today you won’t get
out today you won’t get out today you
won’t get out today yeah let it out let
it out let it out let it out let it out
let it out let it out let it out you’re
destined to repeating because you can’t
forgive it and you can’t forgive him and
yet you’re acted like it ah let it go
let it go this has got to go
this has got to go you can’t live like
this can I go on like this you cannot
play this game you cannot do this to
your life God has a plan for you he has
a life for you you’ve got to be healed
so you can do what he created you so
that you can be really created you to be
and the Lord told me to tell you you are
worth something
you are worshipped every man who ever
felt worthless in this room receive this
word you are worth something you are
valuable you do matter you do matter
you do have purpose you do make a
difference you do make a difference
you do make a difference you do make a
difference you do make a difference
lift your hands to the Lord I rebuke
every spirit of worthlessness that has
plagued you things that people said
about you things that people yelled at
you things that people crushed you with
that made you think he was a dog and
then she was nothing and you lost
respect for yourself let it out let it
out let it out let it out let it out let
it off let it out if they’re wrong
they’re all wrong
they’re all wrong you are you are
precious you’re created in the likeness
in the images you don’t have to be
perfect
I’ll let it out
let it out free
[Music]
today you get free today you get free
today
you don’t have to be perfect to be
precious you don’t have to be perfect to
be precious you don’t have to be perfect
to be precious everybody’s flawed and
everybody’s got issues that does not
mean that you are worthless you have
value and you won’t let nobody love you
because you don’t love yourself you
don’t love yourself
[Music]
okay brothers here we are at the altar
before our Father and most of us are
fathers but we’re before our Father and
we get to be kids again and we get to be
little boys here and we get to climb up
on Daddy’s lap and tell it where it
hurts and we get to tell him what’s
wrong and where we’re broken okay don’t
you miss his opportunity cuz a grown man
don’t get this opportunity often to
climb up in his daddy’s lap we’ll say it
hurts right here and I’m cookies right
here and I messed up I messed up and I
keep messing up
okay I can’t believe you love me
[Music]
you love me I’m not saving love what you
did I want to separate what you did from
who you are you are not what you did you
don’t have to rewrite the Bible and
change the truth to fit your situation
he may not love what you did but he
loves who you are
[Applause]
[Music]
we need this space you and me I want to
do a session I kid I want to do a
session with you
where’s just me and you
I want to talk to you
I want to talk to you I want to talk to
you talk to you I had a message I’ve
been holding for months and I can’t give
it around the woman I want to give it to
you
I need to talk to you I’m tired are you
killing yourself some do it the fast way
and some do it the slow way but we kill
in our cities
that’s why the women outlive us we end
up sitting in a chair over in a corner
with a piece of sweet potato pie
dying right in front of him while they
talking in the kitchen mama loves you
and she don’t even know her baby’s died
but today it starts
I’m gonna show you one thing and then
I’m gonna close I’m gonna show you one
thing how many people are glad you came
to church today
let me say something to the women I know
you are mad at him I know you were mad
at your baby’s daddy because he cheated
on you I know he cheated on you with
your friend your girlfriend your sister
your mama your cousin and you are
convinced he is a dog but being a bad
husband doesn’t mean that he’s going to
be a bad father and using your children
to get even with him is not the way to
go because if you do that to your
children they’re gonna end up up here
like this broken and wounded and hurting
[Applause]
I’m not talking about exposing your
children to child molesters and crazy
people and stuff like that I’m talking
about letting your need for revenge make
you use your kids as a switch to beat
him up with because the switch gets
beaten too
I’m talking about nagging your man out
of your life
he escaped a nagging mama to marry a
nagging wife
[Applause]
and now he’s decided I will never be
happy
[Music]
and you win the argument
but just because required don’t mean you
are
we will shut up to keep the peace but
you didn’t win let it out
this is this is what we’re here for God
promised me if I preached his word I
told my wife I did maybe pray for me
because I got something really heavy to
beat and I’m scared I won’t get it right
and I says really poor I got to get it
right
I got it right
Oh
Oh
the Lord the Lord told me that some
man’s life depended on me getting this
message right this one and I thought I
said pray for me cuz I gotta get it
right it’s not easy to get us to come
out of our fig leaves well that’s you
say I got it right did I Lisa
I’d be a woman now loose and I did it
for years and years and years and years
and I think I really help women and I
did what God gave me to do for women I
was called a woman but I’m not a woman
I’m a man and the kind of ministry that
I’m doing right now most women wouldn’t
even think to do or know to do
they don’t know we’re miserable
[Music]
[Applause]
they don’t know that some of us have not
been happy for years they don’t know now
that we can’t take not one more
complaint
[Music]
they’re some of your dying because you
don’t feel appreciated it might not have
been enough but it was the best day it
was the best I had it was the best with
what I had the world with
and for that we say thank you to every
last one of you
i’ma show you this the band said behold
how good and pleasant it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity there should
not be divisions amongst us not by age
not by generation not by money not by
race not my language this should not be
division
the Bible says behold how good and
pleasant it is for brethren for brethren
for brethren to dwell together in unity
it says it is like the oil it is like
the oil that fell upon the head of Aaron
and on to his beers and down to a
scourge which means that when we get
together God will anoint us
it means that the oil will flow down and
when men get into alignment the oil will
come to you all you got to do is get in
place because when they anointed Aaron’s
head everything that was an alignment
got the oil and you need to get in
alignment with leadership because when
the oil flows it’s gonna get to you the
anointing that’s flowing right now is
flowing from the head to the beard to
the skirts is an alignment it says it is
like the dude that fell upon Mount
Harlan and I am told at the bottom of
Mount Hermon that the flowers grow while
because of the moisture content at the
bottom of Mount Hermon that the flowers
grow Wow
and I think you’re gonna bud again and
blossom again you’re gonna blossom again
you’re gonna blossom again
and here’s my killer point the last
verse is for their God commanded a
blessing where is their God said
whenever you guys get together
I will come man to bless I will command
the blessing I will come and the
blessing I will come and the blessed I
will come and a blessing not ask for it
not hopeful it not pray forward God said
I will come and a blessing I will
command a blessing I will command a but
whenever you get together we came to
this altar and we came broken and
repentant and tearful and we cried and
we fell out and we collapsed and we
screamed and nobody died
the earth didn’t stop rotating the Sun
is still shining we kept we can we can
we can cry and the world won’t stop it’s
gonna be ok it’s gonna be ok
to open up before you explode for fair
god commands a blessing i want you to
take one brother by both hands one
brother by both hands and the reason i
want you to take one brother bible faith
is so you can focus on him and i want
you to look him right in his eye and
it’s gonna be a little uncomfortable but
i want you to look him right in his eyes
and the reason i want you to look him
right and i in spite of his discomfort
it’s cuz nobody sees him
[Applause]
nobody sees him nobody sees who he wants
to be who he’s trying to be what he
wanted to do nobody sees it nobody sees
it
[Music]
come up here Michael come up here and
get this brother he don’t have nobody I
can’t have that this brother right here
he got to have somebody it’s really in
the right to strengthen shirt right here
you got a hand somebody coming here
nobody sees him nobody sees him and he’s
got people that love him they don’t
always see him and I want you to command
a blessing on his life
I want you to speak a word over him
I want you to speak a word over his
dysfunction I want you to speak a word
over his disease and I want every woman
who loves the man to stand up and point
your hand this way every woman who loves
the son a daddy or brother or uncle a
husband a lover
I need your intercessory system
I need your intercessory we’re breaking
generational curses
I need mama and Big Mama grandma my
auntie I need wives and daughters and
little girls to point your hand at least
me I’m coming to get suicide I’m coming
to this addiction I’m coming against
death please help me just for a minute
just help me
just happening
[Music]
help me
help me help me
help me there’s some healing going on
here there’s some healing going on here
there’s some real healing going on here
behold how good and pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity
[Music]
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
[Music]
[Music]
thank you
thank you God commands a blessing God
commands a blessing God commands of
listen God commands a blessing God
commands of listen God commands a
blessing God commands a blessing God
commands a blessing God commands a
blessing God commands a blessing God
commands a blessing for fare God
commands
[Applause]
yes God commands a blessing God commands
a blessing God command the blessing God
commands a blessing
[Music]
[Applause]
I love
I love you man and thank you I love you
man I love them I love you man I love
you brother
I love you man
I love you I swear boo
I swear I love I love
I love you I love you man
I love you I love I love you I love you
so real
I hope somebody takes you out and buys
you the biggest steak
I hope the dango steak is so big that
you got to take a doggy bag home I hope
somebody buys you a hamburger so big you
can’t get your mouth around it happy
Father’s Day
[Applause]
happy Father’s Day
happy Father’s Day let the man wrong
[Applause]
churches over that’s it
[Applause]