Until you know who you are in the midst of the noise, you don’t know who you are at all. Jesus was the man in the middle. In the days leading to His crucifixion, He was positioned between two groups of people. There was a camp who praised Him, and a camp who would crucify Him. Jesus wept but still kept walking. How could He function in all that noise? There was something He knew that they didn’t: He had a purpose that couldn’t be rushed or delayed. We’re living in the noisiest time, and the only way not to break is to know who we are. Do you know whose you are and what God has done for you?

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two thousand years ago about this time

we now commemorate what is called holy

week

this is the most dynamic

and demeaning degrading

and elevating moment

in the earthly life of jesus christ

this is the ultimate purpose for which

he came

this is the opiate of the expression of

the love of god

toward us begins this week

it is during this entire lit season

that we become more sacrificial

because we honor his sacrifice

he paid the ultimate sacrifice we honor

his sacrifice

in our own lives reminding ourselves

that

that our desires or our needs or our

habits or our routines

can be disrupted as a sacrifice unto god

so that we can be one with him because

if i know him in the fellowship of his

suffering

then i shall be like him in the power

of his resurrection are you with me

today

and so this starts to this i grew up as

a little child

everybody got little crosses in the back

of the church

y’all don’t remember the little palm

crosses they were about an

inch by inch long and everybody got

little crosses

with a straight pin stuck through them

and you stuck it on your shirt

and it was palm sunday so it’s palm

sunday saints and i’m going to go

close to the text that is normally

used on the day it is the same day

it is the same moment but it is a

different emphasis

i want you to go with me to the gospel

of saint luke chapter 19

verse number 37-44

and there we will begin to allow

the word to craft to our souls

the bible said the engrafted word of god

is able to save your soul

that means word that doesn’t stick don’t

stay

if it doesn’t stick it doesn’t stay if

it doesn’t stay it doesn’t change

anything the engrafted word of god

so we want the word of god to be

engrafted into ourselves

are you all ready y’all don’t look ready

are y’all ready

y’all need to get me in the mood are

y’all ready are you

are you online are you ready are you

ready are you ready

are you ready and when he was come now

even now at the descent of the mount

of olives the whole multitude of the

disciples

began to rejoice and praise god with a

loud

with a loud

voice

for all the mighty work that they had

seen saying watch this closely

blessed be the king that

cometh in the name of the lord peace in

heaven

and glory in the highest

and some of the pharisees

from among the multitudes said unto him

master rebuked thy disciples

and he answered and said unto them i

tell you

that if these should hold their peace

the stones immediately

would cry out

and when he was come near and when he

was come near

having left the mount of olives when he

was come near

he beheld the city jerusalem

and he wept over

it over it

saying if thou has known even thou

at least in this thy day the thing which

belong

which belong unto thy peace but now

they are hid from thine eyes

for the days shall come upon thee the

nine enemies

shall cast the trench about thee and

capacity about

and keep the end on every side

and shall lay thee even with the ground

and thy children within thee and they

shall not leave in thee one

stone upon another

because thou knewest not the time

of thy visitation

go back to that first verse

and they see to the first verse first

first first

first verse that i read yeah and when he

was come nigh

even now in the descent of the mount of

olives the whole multitude of the

disciples begin

to rejoice and praise god with a loud

voice

for all the mighty works that they had

seen

i want to talk to you today about

knowing

in the noise

knowing

in the noise spirit of the living god

fall fresh on us today we desperately

need your glory and your presence

in order to be effective at doing what

you’ve called us to do

annoy these slips of clay that they may

be endowed with the grace that is

necessary

to do thy will oh god the blind is the

kingdom and the power

and the glory forever and ever and ever

and ever and

ever and all the people of god

said amen

you may be seated in the presence of us

i got all caught up into this noise

and the noise drew my attention

the loudness of the scene

let me let me set it up a little bit the

loudness of

of the scene between the screaming of

the disciples

saying hosanna and later the screaming

of his enemies saying crucifying

the doubting of the pharisees

doubting him and jesus had to function

in all of that noise these are these are

noisy times we’re living in right now

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constant trauma we got we got it coming

through ways

that our parents and our grandparents

never had to deal with it before

we got it coming through the media

24-hour news cycles

we got it coming through social media we

got it coming through

politics like i’ve never seen in my life

we’ve got it coming through the pandemic

we’ve lost normal

we got racial tensions

we got the rolling back of our rights to

vote in this country

it’s so loud right now that it is

deafening add all of the turbulence

on the outside to your own personal

noise

the noise in your family i know you

don’t have no noise in your family pray

for me

yeah but sometimes my family get noisy

you know you always got something going

on you got the noise in your family you

got the noise

in your finances you got the noise on

your job i don’t care what you do

there’s always somebody that you work

with that don’t like you you got the

noise

of your job the pressure of deadlines

the dates

to me this to do that to do the bills to

be paid

the taxes to come have you had your

teeth cleaned

where was the last time you’ve been to

the podiatrist

you haven’t had anybody do anything with

your scalp or your skin or your

and you’re standing in the middle of so

much noise

you live in it you’re driving it you

walk in it

you get your car and you get in the

traffic they’re honking and blowing

and pushing and shoving you’ll turn on

your phone

and there’s somebody you don’t even know

on instagram

laying you out about something you don’t

even understand about

and you have to live in the noise

it isn’t just a decimal of the noise

itself how loud

how boisterous it is it

also goes far beyond that it is the

constant living under the threat

that takes away our peace

peace has become valuable

when i was young i wanted joy

we danced all night long they put us in

the car we were still dancing

and out but y’all don’t know that about

that but in all

holy ghost sanctified church we go to oh

and we

shout and shout and then we just had joy

but as i got older i appreciate joy but

lord can i have a little peace

oh if you give me a little peace

i don’t have to dance all night now i

just want to be able to sleep all night

oh y’all not going to talk to me

we we we’ve lost the sense of peace the

sense of contentment

the sense of well-being the feeling

of safety looking over your

shoulder in the grocery store

can’t go to a theater without watching

everybody

in the airport looking for a strange bag

drop

at a strange place you’re scared of

everybody

living constantly under the threats

of not knowing what’s going to happen

next

it has taken away our peace

we don’t like to admit it but it’s

taking away our peace we have to take

something to go to sleep

we have to take something to keep us up

during the day about two o’clock you

just almost go into a coma

because you didn’t get rest all night

and about two o’clock

there you are just stumbling all over

thomas so you got to get something going

for ain’t number coffee

trying to keep going it’s taken away our

peace our contentment

our feeling of safety has brought about

brought us to a place of longing

for the quietness of nothingness

right then at the quietness

of nothingness young people don’t be

in such a hairy to make something happen

i understand your energy and your

passion and your drive to make something

happen

but after a while you’re gonna have so

much happening you’re gonna wish for a

little

the quietness of nothingness

some peace you got

noise in your head that has nothing to

do with your family

nothing to do with your bills nothing to

do with your debt nothing to do with

your deadlines your responsibility

nothing to do with the news nothing to

do with your neighbors nothing to do

with the break

the noise in your head

you know you could have done this you

know you should have done that you know

you’re not this you’re not

you’re not adequate about this you don’t

do this where you don’t do that well

and then you’re never going to get where

you’re trying you’re never going to be

you’ve got a all that noise in your head

it’s

loud so loud that even when you lay down

at night science is teaching us

that your mind is going when your body

has stopped

and you wake up as tired as you were

when you went to bed

because you went to sleep but you never

got rest

because your head is still turning at 90

miles an hour

and i’m wondering how you can stand

the noise of being you and you don’t

have to be famous

or rich or well-known or anything

everybody in here got some noise

everybody i’m gonna say that again

because i’m gonna drive that spirit of

hypocrisy out here

everybody in here got some noise some

noise you want to shut down

some phone calls that when you get them

and you see who it is

you act like you didn’t hear it rain

cause you don’t need no more noise

i hate to confess a neighbor but

sometimes i look at it and i see who it

is that i don’t

answer because i don’t need no more

noise i got my own noise i’m trying to

deal with this

shut up

i don’t have no more room for noise

you’re

bursting my eardrums with your story

shut up

right now i’m trying to handle my own

mess

then i walk past the tv and i listened

at their mess

and i go past the news and i listen to

their message and i got

international noise going on

and it is deafening now in the natural

when noise gets loud we know it can

damage the eardrums

but a recent study that was done in

germany’s main

university medical center says an

increasing amount of noise

can actually throw your heart out of

rhythm

it can cause atrial fibrillation atrial

fibrillation that’s hard to say

what it is irregular heartbeat

can create blood clots

can cause a stroke even

heart failure if atrial fibrillation can

cause

a heart failure just by noise there’s

nothing

biologically wrong with you but the

intensity

of the noise in your life can affect the

rhythm of your heart it’s already messed

up the rhythm of your sleep

oh y’all ain’t going to talk to me this

is god talking to you this morning

and but but it can go so far that it

messes up the rhythm

of your heartbeat

and it’s not just outer noise because i

can cut off the tv i cut off the radio

and cut off the telephone i can cut out

all of that but the noise in my head

anything that can create agitation

irritation

or changes your mood

affects your blood pressure can trigger

trigger atrial fibrillation in your life

just

because you’re upset it’s not surprising

that irritable noise

or noise in general when someone is

looking for quiet

could trigger cardiac arrest

that’s why i don’t answer the phone

that’s why every now and then i just

don’t answer i saw it i just don’t

answer

because you ain’t going to give me no

heart attack i’m already at my limit

it interests where are my real people at

i need some real people

are there any real people in here that

you’re already at your noise limit

you don’t need to know that i feel like

the witch in the in

it all don’t nobody bring me

no bad news

and yet you can’t wait for the noise to

quiet to go ahead

you can’t wait for the enemy to leave

you alone to go ahead

you have to be able to go to work in the

noise

you got to be able to take care of the

kids and the noise

you got to be able to cook dinner in the

noise you got to be able to get dressed

in the north

you have to be able to function in noise

that you can’t always

control and today my goal is to show you

what knowing will do to noise

now normally on a day like this the cult

steals the show

all over the country preachers are gonna

be preaching about the cult

that was tied to the post and they’ll be

preaching hot messages

like loose him and let him go and then

across town they’ll be preaching

the lord has need of him and they’ll be

preaching about how jesus

sat on top of a coat a beast of burden

carrying the one who carried our burdens

and they have all unique kind of ways to

discuss it

but today i refuse to allow

the cult to steal the show

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but not the cult when it when it’s

compared to christ

i’m in the presence of christ and i’m

going to preach to you about the cult

who is the code who cares about the code

you preach about the code you preach

about it

you’ll preach about the i want to preach

about the christ

this is the inaugural week of the

greatest week of his life

and i don’t want to be talking about his

car

you know you know petty people have

petty conversations

you’ll be saying something real profound

they’ll be talking about your shoelaces

is that gold shoelaces he got all people

can get caught up

in the crazy stuff and i am not gonna

worry about the cult

when i can tell you about the christ

that rolled on top of the coat

[Applause]

and the portion of oppressed people

who see christ’s entry as some messianic

leadership

that will free them from the oppression

of

rome they were not following behind him

shouting hosanna because they saw him

going to the cross

they were not shouting hosanna because

he was going to die for their sins

they were calling him the king because

they thought he was going to release him

from their oppression

the oppression of rome the status of

jesus has escalated in their minds

beyond the miraculous at first he was

just a miracle worker

but he has gone from the miraculous so

now they see him as the political

and they see him as a possible liberator

and so they’re saying hosanna because

after

hundreds of years of not having a king

maybe he’s going to be the king he

called himself the son of david

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they called him the son of david so

maybe he’s going to liberate us

and when he gets to jerusalem he’s going

to overthrow

the powers that oppress us jose now they

said blessed be the king

they were his disciples they were his

support mates

they were his friends and they gave him

they lauded him

with praise through all types of praise

at him but sometimes even your admirers

don’t understand you

sometimes the praise from your admirers

can be as stressful as the criticism of

your enemies

the the pressure it puts on you the

expectations they have of you

the plan they have for your life already

mapped out didn’t ask you

can put more pressure living up to other

people’s expectations will drive you

crazy

it will bring you down to your knees it

will make you

function in superman mode until clark

kent has a heart attack

beware you know to be aware of them that

say crucify him

but watch out for them that say hosanna

too

because hosanna will put you in a state

of over performance

hosanna will put you in a state of

trying to live up to their expectations

hosanna will put you in a place that

they called him

rightly they call him the king of the

jews

they rightly called him the king of the

jews but not

the way they thought he was going to be

king of the jews they thought it was

going to be a coup

an overthrow a restoration of what they

lost

because the truth of the matter is

they’re following him

for them

i i hate to bust your bubble but most of

the people who are following you

are not following you for you

y’all ain’t talking to me today i wish i

had my real church in here

they are following you for them they

have an agenda

they have an expectation they have

something they want you to do

they are following you for them

hold on they threw

their coats down at his feet hold on

and they laid branches down on the

ground hosanna

blessed be the king

they shouted unto him they weren’t

calling him the king when he first came

they had experienced him as a prophet

the woman at the well said i perceive

that thou art a prophet sent from god

they understood him to be a prophet no

man can do such things

save god be with him they understood him

as a prophet

later they would recognize him as a

priest for we have not a high priest

who cannot be touched by the feeling of

our infirmity

tempted in all place like as we are yet

without sin

but this week they see him as a king

they see him as a king they had seen his

miracles

they had seen his power they had seen

his compassion for the people

he was so compassionate that he stopped

preaching

to feed them lunch the lord of glory

started making fish sandwiches

for his congregation they were sure that

he was empathetic

they had seen him move in such power

that when they sought him out

he said i just speak and he and the

ground trembled

he was bad they had seen him walk

on water where there was no bridge

who could imagine a better king than

this

if there’s any chance of overthrowing

herod

and getting past pilate and getting past

caesar

it’s got to be this water walking

it’s got to be this water walking jesus

it’s got to be this healing of leprosy

jesus it’s got to be this jesus that

loves the people

and they were excited the prophetic

entrance to jerusalem demands

that jesus enter in riding on a cult

that was to fulfill prophecy

and jesus was interested in fulfilling

prophecy

let the records show even though i am

not going to be crowned

but crossed let the record show

i am the king

even though they will make my crown out

of thorns

and it will prick my head till blood

runs down my face

and they will spit on me and pluck my

beard

i am the king even though they’ll laugh

at me and call me a charlatan

and a crook i am the king

even though the church people that have

been preaching

about my coming for years have rejected

me

i am the king you got to know who you

are

jesus comes riding in on the coast to

fulfill scriptures

they followed him out to the mount of

olives

i’ve been to the mount of olives the

mount of olives is a high peak

overlooking jerusalem the view from the

mount of olives

is absolutely staggering they followed

him out

to the mount of olives and all of a

sudden in the noise of their praise

and the accusations of the pharisees

jesus starts weeping

weeping and walking

weeping and walking

a good percentage of my life i have

spent

weeping and walking

[Laughter]

y’all are going to talk to me about

weeping and walking

i had to keep walking because i had a

schedule to maintain

but i couldn’t stop weeping because i

knew

in my own heart what i was gonna have to

deal with is there anybody in

here that knows what it is to be weeping

and walking

just sweeping and walking just driving

down the road and you’re just weeping

and walking

on the highway and you’re weeping and

walking drying your face before you get

out of the car

because you’re with jesus was

oh but curtis it helps me to know that i

can weep

and still walk oh that that i can cry

and still be moving

that i can groan and still do what i got

to do

the bible says

[Applause]

to jesus we’ve been walking you ain’t

heard of praise

until you’ve heard a praise from

somebody

who’s weeping and walking all of them

look cute praises cause you got a new

car

and you got new shoes and they put your

dress on sale

you can’t praise god let somebody in

here go to praise of god

who been weeping and walking and you’ll

see a real holy ghost praying

i dare you if you’ve been weeping and

walking to take a minute

and give god some praise

yes yes

yes yes

i’m praising him because i can weep and

walk

i’m praising him that i cried my way

through stuff

i cried but i kept crawling i

cried but i kept crawling i weep

but i kept walking i kept on going

devil i’m still here

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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that’s the

praise

that’s the praise that’s the praise as a

praise

that’s the sacrifice of praise when

people just praise him because they got

some

that’s not the sacrifice of praying but

if you can praise him through tears

if you can praise him half sick if you

can praise him in debt

if you can praise him in trouble if you

can praise him in the storm

that is the sacrifice of prayer i need

30 seconds of

sacrificial

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let me preach on a little bit he he

[Laughter]

oh my god glory oh my god

i just felt the devil resign

i just thought the demon resigned

because you won’t stop

praising god after all he did to you

you still keep praising god you’ve been

to hell and back

and you still keep praising god and the

devil’s about to throw up his hands

and quit his job because if you praise

him again

that devil’s gonna have to get out of

your house i dab you to take a minute

the thing the thing that i’m trying to

capture out of this text

is how jesus keeps his wits about

him in the noise

in the noise of their lofty expectations

and on the other hand their vehement

hatred

their venomous hatred of an innocent man

he had to live in between

the noise of the pharisees

saying you should make them shut up

because they’re calling you

king see the pharisees were afraid

that he would make their jobs obsolete

their religion replaceable fear creates

hatred

i will say that again fear creates

hatred

most of the people that hate us are

afraid of us

i don’t care who you are those people

that hate you

they only hate you because they’re

afraid of you they see your potential

and they hate you for it they see your

favor and they hate you for it

they see how god uses you and they hate

you for it

and i’m attracted to jesus because

jesus has a way of living in the

eye of this storm

with a sense of himself

in in in the in between the noise

of hosanna and crucifying their stance

jesus and let me be clear when he’s

weeping

he is not weeping for himself

he is weeping for jerusalem

he is weeping for jerusalem if thou has

known

even thou at least in this

thy day the things which belongs unto

thy peace

but now they are hid from that eye if

you knew who i

was

we could have changed the world we could

have

escalated the millennial reign

we could have brought in peace on earth

but i came unto my own

and my own receive me not oh

jerusalem jerusalem how oft would i have

gathered you as a hen

does her chicks jesus wept

for them you don’t ever see

jesus crying for himself

when lazarus died he wept

for them oh y’all hear what i’m saying

from the mount of olives he wept for

jerusalem

he is in between the hosannas

that were good but not quite right in

their expectation

if you don’t see that you won’t get the

whole thing

sometimes the people who think the most

of you put the most pressure on you

see i got to show you what’s wrong with

this hosanna

it’s not that he’s not king is that

they’re expecting him to do

what they want how they want when they

want it

in the way they expected it

and the pressure of people’s expectation

will kill you there are people listening

at me right now

you are exhausted because everybody

who loves you expects you to perform

as they expected

and you’re just worn out because they

just want more and more

and more and can you do this and can you

do that and can you take me here and can

you go with me there

and can you fix this and can you do that

and can you do the other

and then after you do all of that they

don’t even

comfort you they just say oh that’s how

he is

you you know mama mama just couldn’t do

that mama just can’t cook for three days

without getting off of her feet you know

mama she can just do that

you know they think you can just they

don’t appreciate

the sacrifice of what you do

their hosanna is deafening because they

think it costs you nothing to do

what they expect you to do they think

it’s easy for you

to be where they expect you to be they

think it’s so

easy that even when you come in from

battle they give you no comfort

because they think so much of you

that they give nothing to you

i want that to sink in because i know

that’s getting into some deep places

you’ve been wondering why you’re not

appreciated

you’re not appreciated by the people who

say hosanna

because they think you’re supposed to do

that

you supposed to do that that’s how you

are she just like that

he’s just wide like that he can just do

that

you never get appreciated for the level

you’re on

by your admirers and you don’t doubt for

one moment that they love you

but you do lay down weeping because they

take you for granted

hosanna

is stress

and on the other hand there’s this group

waiting on him

crucified

and jesus exists between these two

polarities he is the man in the middle

he he is the man in the middle

he cannot rest in the hosanna

and he cannot stay in the crucify him

he is the man in the middle

let us not overlook the fact that the

bible takes the time to tell us

that jesus comes to the mount of olives

he comes to the mount of olives

where he had preached the beatitudes

about attitudes and grace and overlooks

the city of jerusalem

what starts at the mount of olives were

in

at the mount of calvary

and this text is stuck

between two mountains

i got the mount of olives behind me but

i got the mouth

calvary before me

and i want to know can you live between

two mountains not

fully reaping the benefit of either

he has come to the mount of olives where

he cannot stay

and he is approaching the mount of

calvary

where he must die

and he will spend his last walk

between two mountains

jesus is used to being the man in the

middle

i feel like preaching

jesus is used to being the man in the

middle

he at dinner last night he was the man

in the middle

he sat down at the last supper and he

had

john on one side and judas

on the other side then john had his head

on his breast

and judas would betray him with a kiss

and

one loved him to death and the other one

would cause him to die and jesus

jesus jesus

a man in the middle what a precarious

place to sit

between john and judas

and to and to know who you are to the

point

that you can eat

can you eat between john

and judas

[Applause]

hey can you walk between mount olive

and mount calvary only brings the

question

can you eat between john

and judas can you exist

between two opinions hosanna you’re the

king

you should tell your people to shut up

and jesus

has to exist between two opinions

without trying to fix either one of them

he doesn’t have time to go back and

explain to them yes i’m the king

but this is not the messianic age where

i can set things up

the way you want i’m going to the cross

he doesn’t have time to delay his travel

dealing with his critics he has to live

between two opinions without acquiescing

to either one

they know that he will die

being a better man than they thought he

was

but they also know that though they

thought he was good

he was not going to be good in the way

that they expected

and he had to live between two opinions

i want to talk to some people today

who are living in controversy

you got your lovers and you got your

haters

you got your well-wishers and you got

the people that hope you choke

and you can’t shut down either group and

god

wants me to tell you that you can live

between two places you can live between

two mountains

you can live between two disciples

you can live between two opinions

you can live between a priest and a man

named pilate chaopas

the priests initiated the crucifixion

and pilate said bring me some water and

let me wash my hands

and jesus had to live between the two

i want to deal with some people that are

living between

gap fillers

some gap filler paul talks about living

between

i i i i count myself to have apprehended

i’m not where i want to be but this one

thing i do

i’m forgetting those things which are

behind me

i press toward the mark of the prize of

the high calling of god

he says the art of being a believer

is to be able to believe even when

you’re not quite

there yet

jesus tells thomas you have believed

because you have seen

but blessed are they who have not seen

and yet they believe i want to talk to

people

who aren’t quite there yet i’m not the

baptist church we used to say

i’m not what i’m ought to be but i’m not

what i

used to be uh i’m between

two places i’m between k office and

pilot i’m between two opinions i’m

between

two disciples i’m between two mountains

and before the week is out they would

hang him high

and stretch him wide between

to thieves

and had he not been able to function

between two mountains and between two

disciples

and between two opinions and between the

priest and pilate

and between two thieves then he wouldn’t

be able

to exist as a mediator between

god and man jesus was the only one

who could be the mediator between god

and man

because jesus was the one that was used

to living in the middle

he’s the man in the middle

how can you be who you are

in the middle of the mess you’re in

that’s what i want you to get out of

this message today

that jesus is teaching us how to be in

the middle

my the late o phil dukes one of the

great public relations

uh people out here in the united states

he’s deceased now

he told me he who stands in the middle

of the road gets

hit by both sides

there’s a price to be paid to be in the

middle

but balance is in the middle

you can’t balance anything you can’t

center

and jesus is going to bring back balance

to what adam took to his dreams

and he is the one who stood in the

middle

and he was able to be in the middle i

want to talk to some people who are in

the middle of something right now

i want you to write down three things

you don’t have to give personal details

that you’re in the middle of right now

in the middle of i’m in the middle of it

i’m in the middle of parenting i’m in

the middle of a crisis i’m in the middle

of a bad marriage

i’m in the middle of a promotion i’m in

the middle of opening up my business

i’m in the middle of redesigning myself

i want you to write down three things

i’m in the middle of

i’m in the middle of it i’m in the

middle of it i can’t quite get the joy

out of either thing cover i’m in the

middle of it i’m in the middle of

getting out of debt

i’m in the middle of a bill in the house

i’m in the middle of going back to

school

i’m in the middle of raising my children

i’m in the middle of figuring out how to

be single again

i’m in the middle of learning how to be

a wife three things three things three

things three things

i’m in the middle of it i’m in the

middle of it i’m in the middle of it i’m

in the middle of i’m in the middle of it

i’m in the middle of it i’m in the

middle of it i’m in the middle of it

right now

it keeps me up at night sometimes i wake

up and i can’t go back to sleep

because i’m in the middle of it i’m in

the middle of it right now i’m in the

middle of my life

i’m in midlife crisis i’m in menopause

i’m in the middle of it right now i’m in

the middle of it right now

i’m in the middle of it right now i’m in

the middle of it right now i’m in the

middle of transition

i’m in the middle of changing jobs i’m

in the middle of frustration

and i don’t quite feel appreciated in

either place

because i’m neither at olives or calvary

i’m neither with john or judas i’m in

the middle

of it right now i’m between

two places right now

without the luxury of either i am in the

middle of it

and i am trying to figure out how do you

function

in the middle how do you function

in the middle because being in the

middle is noisy

the gravitational pull of your past

is saying you can’t go that high

and every time you take a step forward

it’s trying to pull you back

saying you don’t even belong in that

arena

the gravitational pull of yesterday if

you’re not careful

will cause you to end up with a

conclusion like newton

that says what goes up must come down

and so you’re afraid to believe in up

because you might come down

you you got somebody that loves you but

you can’t you can’t quite believe

in love because you’ve been betrayed

before

you got a promotion in front of you but

you can’t believe it because you had one

before and they gave it to somebody else

and you’re in the middle of it right now

and jesus

jesus keeps his head

in the middle

in the middle of all of this noise

there’s something that he knows

that stabilizes him while everybody else

is going to extremes

there’s something that jesus knows

coming in the middle

that causes him from tipping anybody

else would have stayed at the party

hosanna hosanna oh yeah let’s do it

hosanna

let’s do it you talking about me you

like me you love me

oh yeah you with me you my boy you

almighty anybody else

would have stayed back there but if he

had stayed back there he would have

missed his purpose

sometimes staying too long with people

who are saying too much

it’s just as bad as facing off with your

enemies

he has the ability to know who he

is without needing their palms without

leading their branches

without needing their accolades without

needing their song

they weren’t calling him anything

that he didn’t already know about

himself

he knew somebody shot he knew

he knew he knew independent

of either mountain he knew

independent of john or judas

he knew in the independent of the priest

or pilate he knew

independent of a thief on this side and

a thief

on that side he knew

in between god and man

he knew somebody shot he knew

now everything you’re trying to tell god

he already knew

he he showed you how much he knew when

he walked up to him

and told him he said there’s a colt in

the next city

he hadn’t even got to the city yet he

said he’s over in the next village

and he’s tied to a post

you will find him tied to a post and

when you find him loose him and let him

go and tell him

the master has need of here i’m not so

crazy about the cult

i’m so impressed with the fact that we

ain’t even got to this village yet

and you already know what’s in here

somebody shout he knew

whatever you’re dealing with right now

god wants you to know you might be

surprised

but i’m not surprised i knew this was

gonna happen in your life

and my grace is sufficient for what

you’re facing

right now if i’m talking to you give him

any kind of praise you got come on

marcus

give me any kind of praise to god

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he knew he knew he knew look at somebody

say he knew

type it on the line he knew put it in

the comments he knew

tweeted out he knew he knew he knew he

knew

he knew he already knew your father was

gonna get sick he already knew your

mother was gonna die he already knew you

were gonna face that calamity he already

knew you were gonna have to downsize he

knew he knew

he knew he knew he knew he knew your

friend was a betrayer

he knew you were gonna be lighter he

already knew he knew where the cult was

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he said at the table with his disciples

and said one of you is the devil

and all of them ask is it i because they

didn’t know

but he knew

i can prove to you he knew cause he

turned around and said the one that dips

with me

that is the one and what thou do is do

it quickly

he knew he already knew

how the week would end

you see knowing is what you

do with noise

uh no

i know

i ain’t gonna let this noise bother me

today

cause i already know you can’t buy me

with compliments

and you can’t run me home with criticism

because i don’t need your opinion to be

who i

am i already know

i know somebody’s hot i know when you

know what you know what you know

it don’t matter what they’re saying on

the right or what they’re saying

on the left you have to know jesus

knew

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he knew who he was

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i heard him say i am

that i am i

am the bread of life

i am the lily of the valley

i am the day star

i am the kinsman redeemer

i am a will in the middle of the wheel

i am the lamb of god

i am the scapegoat

i am your bridge

i am the physician

i have water in dry places

i am the bright morning star

i am the hope for tomorrow

i am the light of the world

i am the mighty god

i am the wonderful counselor

i am the prince of peace

i am your help

i am your strength i

am your joy i

am

i know i i know i

know i

that i know

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yes i know

somebody said i know it’s not just that

jesus knows

who he is but i also know

who i am i am

the righteousness of god i am

the seed of abraham i am

blessed in the city i am

blessed in the field i am

the favor of god i am

the beloved of god i am

the son of god i am

a child of god i am

god’s man i am

god’s preacher i am

tell somebody you better know it

you better know it you better know it

you better know it you don’t need a

crowd

you don’t need a choir you don’t need a

coach

you don’t need a fan you better know for

yourself

you better know who you are you better

know what you got

you better know what you can do you

better know what god

called you

i know i’m a good man i’m not a perfect

man

but i know i’m a good man so if you

forget to tell me

i know

i know i’m a provider in case you don’t

tell me

i already know look at somebody say i

know

god knows he’s a provider whether you

tell him he’s a provider or not

he already know do you know who

you are

do you know how tombow

culture do you know who you are do you

know what you got

do you know what you bring to the table

do you know what god did

in your life do you know where god

brought you from

somebody typing now i know i know i know

i know i know in the noise

i know in the store i know

in the crisis i know in the hospital

i know in the unemployment line i still

know

i know i know i know

i know i know

so today

until you know it in the noise

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you don’t know it at all

you got to know it

even though you ain’t got there yet

you got to know it i told you i was a

little boy

young boy not a little boy young boy

they call me minister jakes

and they used to make so much fun they

said look at minister jake’s

walking around like he a bishop

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[Applause]

they didn’t know but

[Applause]

i know

you got to know who you are

they used to talk about me when i had a

little church in west virginia

they said he can preach when he came

pastor but it didn’t matter what they

said

because i know

[Applause]

they used to tell me that i needed to be

more like them or i couldn’t be

successful

but i stayed like me because i know

they told me that preachers who preach

like this would never make it on

television because everybody

was teaching back then i got on camera

talking about getting ready get ready

get ready get ready get ready you know

why

i know you got to know

in the noise

who you are in christ jesus

so when jesus cries he doesn’t anybody

else would have been crying about the

cross

he stands over jerusalem saying you

don’t know what you missed

you don’t know what you rejected

you don’t know what i offered you

oh jerusalem you don’t know what you had

you don’t know what you had you don’t

know what i was offering you

he said now your enemies are going to

bring you down to the ground

not one stone will be left standing upon

another

they will dig ditches around you and

they will bring you down to the ground

and you will well and your children

will suffer because you rejected

what i brought you because you couldn’t

decide

who i was but i knew

who i was in the noise we’re in now

i’ve never seen such noise in all of my

life

and the noise we’re in now

the only way not to have a nervous

breakdown

is to know

in the pressure we’re facing right now

the only way to survive it

is to know it’s not safe to be nobody

women aren’t safe men aren’t safe black

folks ain’t safe

asians aren’t safe latinos are unsafe

ain’t nobody’s safe now everybody’s a

victim right now

all hell is breaking loose everywhere

you got to know

whose child you are you got to know

what god has done in your life you got

to know

where god brought you from you got to

know

that he didn’t bring you this far to

leave you you got to know

that you’ve been through the tough side

of the mountain before

you got to know that the same god who

brought you through yesterday

will take you through today and tomorrow

you got to know

that what surprised you didn’t surprise

god

god already knew that was gonna happen

god already prepared you for that

his grace is sufficient for what you’re

dealing with right now

go to the next village if god keeps

track

of a cult

[Applause]

if god knows what post he’s on

and the rope that tied it that there’s

nothing that you’re facing right now

that god didn’t know

and if you can just trust

that he knows nothing snuck up on him

nothing left him a gas nothing left him

without being prepared

god has prepared for what you’re dealing

with right now i feel like i’m talking

to somebody

i don’t know who it is god has prepared

for what you’re dealing with

right now and though it’s noisy

you got to know i’m the woman for the

job

i’m the man for the job i’m the preacher

for the job

i’m the son that can handle it i’m the

daughter that can deal with it

i’m the one that can keep my pace

in my pain

i’m the one that can keep

walking while i’m crying

i can cry and crawl

but i will get there in time

before the week was over

jesus was right where

he was supposed to be

and the noise of his fans didn’t push

him

and the noise of his critics didn’t

delay him

y’all didn’t hear what i gave you if you

knew what i just gave you

you would run around your house right

now

the noise of your fans don’t make you

and the noise of your enemies don’t

break you

it is not what they know about you

it’s what you know it’s what you know

it’s what you know it’s what you

know everybody else said the woman with

the issue of blood was gonna die

all of her doctors had given up

her bank account had given up her family

had moved away

even jesus paid her no attention

but listen to how she said to herself

if i can touch

to him of his garment i

will not i might

i will be made whole

jesus wasn’t steading her

that’s grandmama talking jesus wasn’t

standing there

he wasn’t looking at her he wasn’t

paying no attention

he asked him who touched me

it was not even his knowledge of her

that got her you it was her

knowing if i

touch him right now

somebody right now if you touch him

right now

going through what you’re going through

right now bleeding like you bleeding

hurting like you’re hurting

finances like they are family like it is

emotions like they are situations in

your mind your emotion if you

i know you can’t stand up if you crawl

over

if you crawl over if you crawl over your

hands and knees

and just says you ain’t got to shake him

by the head if you just touch the hill

of his car you you’ll be made whole

you have to know that

you have to know this is your moment

and even though they paying you no

attention and you’re not in the circle

and you’re not part of the crowd

and you’re not one of his boys you got

to crawl up behind him

and touch the hem of his garment and say

today is my day

to be made whole lift your hands and

open your mouth to god

tell them today is my day

today’s monday

today

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today is my day to be

made whole right

now i made up my mind i’m not going to

leave

till i get a touch

make all the noise you want

but i know i will be made whole

i know i will be healed i know

i will survive this moment i know

i will land on my feet i

know i will prosper i

know i will succeed

i know my latter days

will be greater than my former days

i know i’m more than a conqueror

i know i will land on my feet i know god

will take me through this

i know god will guide me through the

night

i know god will show me where the green

pastures are

i know god will help me in the time of

my trouble

i know god will protect me in the

presence of my enemies

i know he will anoint my head withhold

i know my cup will run over i know it

i know it in the noise i know it in the

pain

i know it in the sickness i know it in

the crisis

i know it i just know it till cancer

i know it tell the person

i know it

i know it i know it

i know it i know it

i know it i know it

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what day did you say

[Music]

you mean right now

today is

after all you’ve been true

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[Applause]

[Music]

you gotta know it in spite of the noise

around you

as i close today two things i want to

challenge you

is to sow in this anointing

not the not the the shaking of it

not the clapping of it

not the theatrics of it

the intelligence of it

the knowing of it i

call your mind to divine order

i call your mind to divine

order i rebuke

chaos and confusion

you will have clear direction in the

next three days

god’s going to give you clear direction

the fogginess is passing by the

indecisiveness is leaving

the forlorn man is leaving i

call your mind into sobriety

been drunken with worry you’ve been

drugging with uncertainty

you’ve been drunken by care

summer

it up god knew this time was coming

i can see clearly

god’s gonna let you know

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as you’re so into it we’re not sowing

into

this part of the anointing or that part

of the anointing or

shouting at no no no no no we’re sowing

into

the classified intelligence

that god has that i need

to know to handle the situation

i’m in right now whisper it in my ear

show it to me in a dream send it to a

prophet

but in the next three days

in the next three days

i’m gonna put this to rest i’m gonna put

this dress

speak to your bed and tell them i’m

getting ready to get some good rest

i’m not gonna be thinking in my sleep

i’m not gonna be wrestling in my sleep

i’m not gonna be worried about it in my

sleep

i’m gonna get some good rest cause in

the next three days i’m gonna settle

this

and you’re showing me i’m gonna know it

i’m going to know what to do i’m going

to know what to say

i’m going to know who to talk to i’m

going to know where to go

god is going to give you

knowledge

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in the noise

i was reading about noise and they said

noise confuses the mind

even has a biological effect on the mind

it’s a tactic and a device that the

enemy uses

to confuse you noise

is how battles were worn in the old

testament

not always one with swords and shields

they were worn by noise beating on

lanterns and making noise confuse the

enemy

out of the confusion

knowing gives you a certainty

the steps of a good man are ordered by

the lord

i want to walk in what’s ordered for me

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give me my piece back

give me my contentment back give me my

rest back

i’m going to know and finally if you’re

here

and you don’t know jesus

on the holiest week of the year

the most sanctified week out of 52.

i’ma tell you something i

really don’t understand why you insist

on not getting saved now

it was a bad choice anytime but right

now

with the bible looking like the

newspaper and the newspaper looking like

the bible right now

with plagues coming

one right after the other and as soon as

it gets up

a vaccination for what here come another

one another

strand and the bible talks about in the

last days

how plagues and diseases and wars and

earthquakes

in diverse places the weather would be

uncertain

a month ago it was freezing here water

pipes were bursting

people were freezing to death in their

house

30 days ago outside is 70 some degrees

now

you don’t know whether to turn your heat

on or your air conditioner

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the trees don’t know

one moment they’re freezing and now the

leaves are budding

we’re living in the last days

and i thank god for all the people

that’s trying to make it better i thank

god for all the physicians i thank god

for all the doctors

i thank god for all the politicians

that’s trying to hold the country

together

trying to hold the nation together but

all of you together does not take away

from the fact

we’re living in the last days

if ever was a time you needed jesus

ain’t nothing out there to make you high

enough to make this not true

if ever was a time you needed

a foundation that was solid

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it’s right now i’d like to pray for you

you can’t earn this

you can’t deserve this don’t nobody

deserve to be saved

it’s mercy

god wants to extend mercy to you right

now

yeah yeah yeah i hear you talking yeah

we go through all the stuff you go

through

you get sick we get sick you die we die

you lose a job we lose the time all of

that

we might lose a job but we don’t lose

ourselves

there’s something that undergirds us

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that we might cry but we still walking

because we know in whom we have believed

can i pray with you right now

in the spirit i just took you by the

hands

and i’m leading you to jesus

on the holiest week of the year

give me your hands

him your heart

let’s pray father

forgive me in my sins

wash me in the blood

set me free

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my old life is not working

i repent of my sins

now god have mercy on me

i gotta grow

[Music]

but i’m taking the first step today come

on i’m taking the first step today

i’m giving my whole life

to you right now so i can know

in all this noise

[Music]

who i really am what i was created to be

and do i receive it right now

[Music]

in jesus name amen

i want two minutes of praise can you

last that long

just two minutes of praise for souls

for the word for the truth

for liberty for healing

for restoration for the things you wrote

down on your list

for the things you’re in the middle of

for god given you answers

for god opening doors come on come on

don’t get tired

for god open the doors for god making

ways

for god giving you peace for god giving

you directions

for god set me afraid for god

for god is the kingdom

for god is the

for god is the glorious

thou and forevermore

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in jesus name

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you