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

[Applause]

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

[Applause]

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]

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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

[Music]

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

[Applause]

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

[Applause]

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]