Are you outnumbered? In Numbers 13, Moses sent 12 spies to possess Canaan, but 10 of them believed it was impossible. Caleb, on the other hand, resolved not to come back empty-handed. His set-apart spirit silenced their disbelief, because even facts are powerless against God’s truth. Your confidence has the momentum to cut through the crowd’s murmuring. In the moments when you’re outnumbered, speak up and call it “done” — the giants will be forced to lay down. You might be one voice, but one voice has always been powerful enough to seize the land.
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go ready i’m ready let’s go to the book
of numbers chapter number 13
verse number 26-33
the book of numbers and there you will
find my assignment
for this morning
my assignment is to deliver you
the word of the lord so you need to be
listening at the word
for the word
listening at the word
for the word
that the dr valve i have been thinking
about how when you say the word of god
the church thinks the bible
but the bible says in the beginning was
the word
there was no bible in the beginning
oh y’all can’t handle that
so the word of god is more than the text
jesus said man shall not live by bread
alone but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of god so that means as
i deliver the word of god through the
text
there will be a word of god that comes
out of the word that is rhema to you
and the holy spirit will say this is
about that this is how you handle that
this is how you do that isn’t that good
we’re in the book of numbers chapter
number 13 verse 26 if we are in the book
of numbers we are on the precipice of
the promised land
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i was shocked when i went to the
promised land to see how close moses got
to the promised land from mount nebo you
can see the jordan
he got so close to it
he got very close things get tough
when you get close
now all the people the only people who
ought to be shouting are people where
things have gotten tough
things get tough when you get close they
were so close that moses
had sent spies
to case out the place
and in the book of numbers we’re going
to have that discussion today
number 13 26-33
they came back to moses and aaron
and the whole israelite community at
kadesh in the desert of paran
there they reported to them and to the
whole assembly and showed them the fruit
of the land
they gave moses this account
we went into the land to which you sent
us and it does flow with milk and honey
here is its fruit
in other words what we have been
thinking all through the desert is not a
lie
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it’s there
it’s real
what god has been promising you is real
it
exists it is really worth the journey to
get there it really does exist this
report is very important and they let
them know first of all the land is there
it does exist it is real and the reason
i stopped there i’m a text teacher a
little bit for a minute the reason i
stopped there is that the devil is on
your shoulder saying that’s not real
that’s not gonna happen
that’s not going to come to pass
but moses has sent spies to spout the
land and they came back saying it’s real
it’s there
it exists there is a land that flows
with milk and honey and milk and honey
is an expression for abundance
and increase
and sweetness and provision
it’s a colloquialism there is a land
that flows it doesn’t literally mean
that the promised land had milk flowing
in the rivers and honey flowing in the
river but it was that abundant that the
only way they could describe it is that
it flows with milk and honey
and so they are saying your hope is not
in vain
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who i’m preaching already
but the people who live there are
powerful
and the cities are fortified
and they’re very large
we even saw descendants of anac there
the amalekites live in the gav the
hittites the jebusites and the amorites
live in the hill country and the
canaanites
well they live near the sea
along the jordan
now watch this then caleb silenced the
people before moses and said
we should go up and take possession of
the land
for we can certainly do it
that’s what caleb said oh i love you you
write with me he said i like his spirit
i want you to understand that carrot
caleb said we should go up and take it
not talk about how much it costs
not talk about the opposition
not talk about the sacrifice we should
go up and take it somebody said we
should go up and take it
but the men who had gone up with him we
can’t attack those people they said we
can’t attack those people they are
stronger than we are
and they spread amongst the israelites a
bad report about the land they had
explored they said the land we explored
devoured those living in it
all the people we saw there are of great
signs those people are huge
we saw the nephilim there the
descendants of anac come from nephilim
we seem like
grasshoppers
in our own eyes
and we look the same
to them
go back to that verse where he caleb
steal
the people
then caleb silenced
the people before moses
and said all
all of those people
murmuring and complaining
all of those spies
and caleb silenced them
my subject this morning is outnumbered
outnumbered
this is a
prophetic utterance
more than a sermon or a bible class
out
numbered
isn’t it funny that god would give me
the subject outnumbered
in the book of numbers
god has a sense of humor
spirit of the living god
we embark upon the mission
of espousing to your bride
those truths that have been tailored
to the continuity and the curves in her
life
speak to us out of the volume of the
book
tailor the texts
to the needs of your people
extract from it
extrapolate from it
those truths of such profundity
that we are transformed literally while
the word of god is being preached
so as i preach to them
holy spirit you echo in them
the word that they need for the times
that they are in
i
sanctify this word to everybody online
everybody in the room everybody in the
building everybody see it on facebook on
youtube whatever device through the app
however you’re looking that you would
have a god encounter
of
supernatural relevance
now i believe you to do it in the name
that has been exalted above every name
in the name of jesus we pray
and all the people said
amen you may be seated
yeah let’s go to work
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we are in the book of numbers
in essence in it is one of the books of
the pentateuch the first five books of
the bible
we are in the book of numbers
and in other words
we are in the book
of a census
taken by god
through moses
to count and categorize and regiment and
organize
who’s with us
we want an accurate accounting
of what we have
so the book of numbers is preoccupied
with numbers
and numbers become very important
now
numbers are very important to people
who like
the numbers
okay
people who have
large investments check them every day
but numbers
shrink in relevance to people
who feel inadequate
but i want to challenge
those who feel like they are not enough
or they don’t have enough
i want to challenge you that until you
count up what you have
you can’t get
what you’re about to receive
for example if if if the little boy
didn’t know
that he had two fish and five loads of
bread
we might not have the miracle with the 5
000.
he when they said how much do you have
he didn’t say i don’t know because it’s
not enough
knowing gives us a sense of control
even the woman who was about to bake a
cake and die knew she had
a handful of meals
the woman who was had so much debt that
she was about to sell her sons knew that
she had
a pot of oil
do you know what you have
paul and silas said silver and gold have
i
but such as i
give out unto thee see if you don’t know
what you have you become vulnerable to
deceit
if you don’t know what you have you
won’t protect it
if you don’t know what you have you
won’t value it
if you don’t know that your grandmama’s
watch has got real diamonds around it
you won’t insure it
the enemy capitalizes off of ignorance
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i don’t want to look at my credit report
well you can’t fix it
if you can’t look at it
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i’ve got a surgeon in the room he can’t
operate if he can’t see
how can you fix what you will not
look
at i don’t talk to that daughter she
craves if you don’t talk to her
she’ll never get better
so speaking that word and speaking that
challenge and speaking that thought is
very very very important
if you’re going to be able to go any
further
moses you have gone as far as you can go
without a census
numbers are important to god
when they got the two fish and five
loaves of bread from the boy in the new
testament then jesus told the disciples
to set the people the 5 000 down in
groups of 50. he said count every last
one of them and organize
what you have so a proper accounting
is important to run anything
i talked to one of the entrepreneurs
young entrepreneurs here at the church
and he said i can’t seem to get up on my
feet and i can’t seem to get myself
together and then when he told me that
he was taking the business money and
mixing it with the personal money in the
same account i said you can’t go forward
because you can’t see
separate your business account
from your personal account
even if you have to pay yourself from
your business account you can’t see what
you’re doing
if you mix everything together you can’t
tell
what you’ve got and you will hamper
where you’re going
so because
they were about jesus was about to
perform a miracle he’s getting organized
by numbers
okay and in the text because moses is
getting ready to take the promised land
he’s getting organized by numbers
last year they did a
census
and it was important that you fill out
the census because it determines how the
taxes are distributed and whose roads
get done and whose uh schools get income
and so many things are in control
by
the numbers
you go into the doctor to to get a
physical and the first thing they want
to do is put you on a scale
and i think look i didn’t come in here
to hear how fat i am
i came in here because my knee hurt but
you want to put me on the scale
because the numbers
measure the impact
on the knee
so you can’t just fix the knee
without assessing how much pressure is
on it
and by the way what do you do for a
living how long are you standing what
are you going through you know
they ask you all kinds of stuff and
moses has given them a series of
questions in the upper part of the
chapter that i didn’t read because he is
doing an evaluation
of what will it take
to take over
what
will it take
to take over
what will it take when i’m when i
counsel couples i ask them and they’re
fighting they don’t come to me till they
mad
i mean they real mad they won’t come to
couples class or uh anything like that
they won’t come they come when all hell
is breaking loose and they’re on the way
to the courthouse and they stop by the
church
and they really don’t want me to fix the
relationship they want me to validate
who’s right
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but the first thing you begin to do is
ask a series
of questions
because those questions help us
not only to evaluate but for you to be
introspective
and hopefully in the process of asking
the questions you cease to worship
around the throne
of who’s right
and begin to ask yourself
what will it take
to make this marriage work
okay i understand
she cheated on you and you’re angry
about it what will it take for you to
forgive her
until you answer that question how much
does your forgiveness cost
a hundred and fifty i’m sorry what what
what just just just give me a number
and generally they don’t know
and as long as you don’t know what it
will take to recover
you’ll never get better
what will it take to move this
relationship forward
what will it take to get us to our
destiny what will it take for my son to
graduate what will it take for me to be
able to apply for this grant what will
it i’m not going to fill out a form for
a grant when i don’t know what it takes
to win
or let me say it in biblical language no
man go up to bill without counting up
the
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you’ll be surprised at the people who go
to bill and they have not counted up the
cost
they don’t read the small print
they don’t all they want to know is how
much are their payments
see see
uninformed people want to know how much
are the payments
informed people want to know how much is
the interest
because if i’m gonna have to make them
payments the rest of my life for the car
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that means i paid for the car 12 times
and the sticker is alive because of the
the interest and
and who pays the closing costs
if you don’t know what to ask
you can never change your situation
so moses begins by telling them not only
do i want you to go because if you send
people into a room without an objective
it becomes a tour
i trained our staff when we have a
business meeting and we have a strategy
meeting every year and all the people
i’m going to do business with from
everywhere comes in and we sit down at
the table
come into the room with an agenda
we are not really there for
lunch so don’t let the dry chicken
distract you
eat a cracker and close the deal
you might not even get to eat the lunch
at all the lunch is camouflaged
and moses is on the precipice
of entering into something
so massive
and so big and so different and so
unlike anything he has ever seen see
moses has never seen the promised land
he has only heard about it
god is about to give you something that
you have never seen
shot about
you heard about it but you have actually
never seen it you didn’t grow up in it
you hadn’t been exposed to it you don’t
understand it but god keeps waving it
before you and dreams and visions and
this is what is called exceedingly
abundantly above all that we may ask or
think
i can only imagine
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saying god is about to give you
something that you can only
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amen they have come
40 years on imagination
and this is the turning point where
imagination
becomes reality
and before they ever even send the spies
they want to get the numbers
and the questions right ready
we want to know who we are
what we have to offer
and we want to know who they are and
what they have here some questions about
the land questions about this questions
about that questions about the other are
you asking enough questions
to prepare you
for what you’re about to step into
marriage is survive when you ask the
right
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questions
and not make
assumptions
because you could be working hard
to give the other person something
that they don’t need
and the only way you can find out what
they need is to ask
questions
so the book of numbers is a census
and moses is sending the spies over
to do an inventory on what’s next
because he is humble enough to know i
know how to live in egypt i know how to
address pharaoh i know how to survive in
that culture i know how to survive in
the desert because i learned how to
survive in the desert by staying out
there with jethro but i don’t know how
to possess what’s next i want to talk to
somebody this morning that you’re about
to possess something that you don’t even
know how to do and you’ve been looking
at it a long time afraid of it because
there is nothing in your background that
has prepared you for your future
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i mean a radical change
i don’t mean a continuation of business
as usual i mean stepping into another
dimension of anything you have ever done
before and you’ve been afraid of it and
you’ve been staring at it and you’ve
been looking at it and you’ve been
thinking about it and you’ve been
dreaming about it but you haven’t been
moving on it because you’re afraid of it
i rebuked the spirit of fear greater is
he that’s in you than he that’s in the
world god is going to do what god is
going to do
oh
i feel a shout coming in the house i
feel a praise coming in the house as my
spirit receives this word and ingested
and digested and appropriated it also
drives out the toxicity of fear and
intimidation and procrastination
you’re not procrastinating because
you’re lazy you’re procrastinating
because you’re afraid
ye shall know the truth and the truth
shall set you free how big are they
what does the land look like
what do they wear in that setting
what is an appropriate conversation for
what’s next
in my life
oh
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i feel i feel the prosperity cutters i’m
gonna take my time with this because i
feel like this is prophetic in the life
of somebody that you’ve been knowing for
the last couple of years that things
were about to shift for you
and you’ve been standing there staring
at it you heard about it you felt it you
sensed it but it doesn’t fit where you
came from and god is going gonna cause
you to take a leap of faith into a realm
that you’ve never been in before and
you’re gonna step into it
the entrance of thy word giveth light
the entrance of thy word giveth light
when you take in the word it gives light
which when you have light on the inside
is called enlightenment
in enlightenment
enlightenment cannot be measured
external light can be measured
the lumens from external light can be
measured but the lumens on internal
light there is no mechanism to control
enlightenment the devil doesn’t mind you
turning lights on on the outside
he doesn’t want you to have lights
turned on on the inside but this word
that i’m preaching to you this morning
is getting ready to lighten you up until
you’re enlightened and prepared for what
god is about to do next in your life
whatever you do don’t click me off right
now because i’m getting ready to get you
ready for what you’re about to step into
god doesn’t want you to step into it as
a fool
with assumptions and ideas that are
inaccurate because if you step into it
as a fool
when the wind blows the house will come
down
because you didn’t build it on a rock
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you didn’t build it on a fact
you didn’t build it with a clear
understanding
so moses in an attempt
to assess he’s already done an
assessment of who he’s got with him and
what he has he is now
assessing what he’s up against
he rather start a fight
without assessing
what he’s up against
he doesn’t make assumptions
about what it takes
to do what i see it’s one thing to hear
me preach on sunday morning but you
cannot assess what it costs to be me
by watching me preach on sunday morning
because that is just
the chicken wing part
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of what leadership takes
to run this
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you you you don’t know
the multiplicity of issues
and actions that are necessary that goes
into any decision that we make
you don’t know that if we’re going to
have a leadership conference we have to
make sure that we put people in the
safest possible environment so that
means we have to spray the room we have
to change the mites we have to make sure
that we do social distances we have to
count all of that up because of the
times that we’re moving in
extra measures and precautions have to
be taken and we have to meet about it
and we have to talk about it and we have
to strategize that we have to talk to
the hotel managers and we have to manage
their expectations
and their cleanliness and their
methodology before we do recommendations
it’s not about just can you speak to the
leaders
it’s about making sure that you have
done due diligence to protect
what god has given you
so moses has assessed what he has
and now he has sent the spies to assess
what he’s up against
have you had anybody spy out
what you’re up against
i get calls all the time for people who
say i want to
they they say
the interviewers ask me all the time
what’s a typical day
in the life of tdjs which i laugh
because there is no typical day
every day is a surprise
you know every day is different every
day is new every day is unpredictable
and it’s hard for me to describe for
them uh there are a lot of things i
can’t do people who want you to have an
appointment every monday and every
wednesday at two o’clock drive me crazy
because my mondays and wednesdays are
not typical
suppose i have a funeral
suppose i have a crisis
suppose we’re shooting a movie
suppose i have an interview about the
movie suppose we have a situation where
we have to negotiate to be able to uh
provide products for our hospital
overseas
i can’t be locked up
to a schedule other people might be able
to do that you so you have to know what
your need is like
and then assess
what you’re up against
the text before us is after the analysis
behind it that has evaluated
what they have and now they’re going to
see
what it takes for what’s next
because never assume
that what’s next
is like where you’ve been
never assume
that you can get married and still be
single
never think for a minute that having a
baby won’t change the whole dynamics of
the
marriage somebody ought to be shoving me
down right now
every change in what’s next
affects everything that was
so the biggest part of leadership is
thinking
and you can’t thinking you can’t do
great thinking with poor information
oh that that’s a tweetable right there
you can’t do great thinking with poor
information
footnote be careful who feeds you
information
because somebody feeding you bad
information will cause you to make bad
decisions could cost you to be killed
when somebody sends me an article the
first thing i i look at is who wrote it
how reputable is the company is this
legitimate where did it come from then i
validate it then especially now
so moses is doing validation he sent 12
scouts to assess the feasibility of
taking back the land he is taking back
what has been promised to his
forefathers not what has been promised
to him
because he has never seen it
but
years of being in egypt has not taken
away the promise of god
400 years of being a slave has not taken
away the promise of god some kind of way
though the word was diluted and polluted
by the egyptians theology and their way
of life still
the rumor persisted
that where i am is not where i’m from
that i’m an immigrant to this situation
and some kind of way the rumor had
persisted that there was a promised land
you can’t move from a place
when you think that you belong in the
place
you can never move from poverty if
poverty has become your normal
the day you accept it is the day you’re
defeated
many of you heard me tell us how i
walked in my house one day in west
virginia years ago and we had first got
married we were young people and the
house was there and it was okay it was
sort of okay a little bit in a way and
you know
it was kind of
cruddy and everything and i walked in
the house and i started talking to the
house and i i said to the house i said
to the house i sent to the house
i said to the house you’re lying on me
now i know that sounds kind of crazy and
there might be some therapists that want
to meet with me after service but i
talked to stuff
i told her how’s you a lie
this is not my reality it might be my
situation but it is not who i am it
might be where i gotta be at this moment
but this is not me and you are lying on
me and i was living in a lie
and then i told the house i’m better
than this
i hadn’t seen better
but down in my spirit i knew
that i was better than what was around
me i was better than choosing which
utility i was going to keep on i was
better than having to use my neighbor’s
phone i was better than dropping their
cable line through my window
i’m in it but i’m not of it
that’s why you got to tell your children
who they are and keep reminding them who
they are because if you don’t remind
them who they are somebody else will lay
hands on them and make them what they’re
not
they will molest them that’s what
molestation
really is is to make me what i am not
because you’re making me what you need
me to be rather than what i am
oh i’m on a roll this morning i’m in my
zone this morning hell is in trouble
this morning demons out of trouble this
morning i want you to get ready for me
get ready get ready get ready because i
feel the flow of the holy ghost in this
place i feel a wind about to hit this
place i feel the power of god about to
shatter this place of his shatter is
gonna shatter every misconception that’s
held you down to the same level and said
you can’t be anything else it’s a liar
felon and russia lockage are one of the
richest black women in the world who is
in oil and went from fashion to oil
started out as a secretary in the bank
so she’s typing around it
she don’t have it but she’s typing
around it
and the spirit of prosperity
fell on her
and so she went from being a secretary
to being a seamstress to being a stylist
to being a fashion designer that hit the
paris runway then she flipped the money
from the paris runway and put it in oil
and she bought some property that they
thought would never be worth anything in
fact she bought it in the middle of the
water and they laughed at her and
thought she was a fool till she hit oil
somebody in this place is about to dig
your way into some
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the men that
that moses sent were not just 12 men he
picked at random
no no they were the heads of the 12
tribes of israel
so they had influence
and you have to understand they had
influence
they had leadership they had insight
they had impact
he picks these 12 men to go
and they are going into a city
knowing that when they get there though
they are 12 and representatives
they know that when they get in the city
they’re going to be outnumbered
it’s not like he’s 12 men going to visit
12 men
the hittites were there
the jebusites were there
the canaanites were there
they had uh the sons of a night were
there they had all of these people they
knew they were walking into a situation
where they were outgunned
they knew they were carrying a knife to
a gunfight
they knew they were carrying a
checkerboard to a chess game
and still they went
can you go into a situation where you’re
outnumbered
because that determines whether you’re
going to be able to go into the promised
land if you can only work with people
who look like you and dress like you and
walk like you until you’re willing to
walk into a room where you’re
outnumbered you’ll never receive what
god has for you
there were 12 men
12 leaders representing the 12 tribes of
israel each one having influence over
different tribes
oh let me stop there for a minute and
say even though israel was moving
they had tribes
tribalism
exist in progress
you can’t wait till everybody is one
to move
if america only moved when america
agreed we would get nothing done
not only do we not agree now we have
never agreed about anything and one time
the agreement got so bad it broke out to
a civil war and still the country
survived
and you might be having a civil war in
your house right now but just because
you’re at odds doesn’t mean you can’t
survive i’ve seen folks stay married who
fought every day and the folks who was
walking around hugging and kissing broke
up in three years
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can i go on
they knew that they would be outnumbered
what they didn’t know
is whether they would return
look at the courage it took for all 12
of them
to go into a land where they’re
outnumbered
and to not be certain
that they would ever come back
can you imagine being the wives or the
sons or the daughters of one of these 12
men
and you’re packing their bags
and you’re sending them out
and you’re kissing them at the door
and you’re watching them as they go away
and you’re wondering is this
the last look
they could have been killed
they could have been murdered they could
have been destroyed
when you get ready to make your next
move
you have to understand and live with the
fact
i get killed
it might go bankrupt
might not come out of it
this is progress is not for the faint of
heart
can i preach this
the part of the text that i’m focusing
on right now
describes their return
so they did come back
and they were they lived to tell it
i told them when the pandemic started
and and all the young people
younger younger than me and the church
were laughing because i put protocols in
place in my house and my life in my car
everything
and i told them somebody got to be alive
to tell what happened
so i already had my speech prepared what
had happened was
they was arguing about masks and
vaccines and stuff and that’s how big
you
got a plan
on coming back
[Applause]
somebody shout i’m coming back
anybody getting anything out of this or
am i just i don’t know
now now they come back with a report and
they come back to report to moses i
don’t understand this part of the text
and i think moses is a great leader
one of the greatest leaders in the old
testament uh amazing person
uh a amen
to me in many many ways i don’t
understand this i don’t understand why
he let the 12 spies come back
and make a public report
i don’t understand that i would never do
that
i would never do that
to me no contemporary leader
would get a report from your top men
with a news station
because you don’t know what they’re
going to tell you
and i would rather hear that information
process that information and disseminate
that information until you have a
respect for information you can’t be
trusted with
the moment feels like
a csi
abduction story you know in csi where
when the police have surrounded the bank
and set up boundaries and begin to ask
all kinds of questions and they call for
the architectural designs of the
building and they want to know what the
ventilation system is like and how big
is it and they want to know how many
entry doors and access there is and they
want to know what it what would happen
if they cut off the heat or the air or
the power and they want to assess
everything how many hostages are in the
building uh uh where are they being held
and what type of weapons do does the
enemy have and how it’s that kind of
feeling
but they don’t do that with cameras
the press is put out
while the facts are coming in
don’t tell your story too soon
because we’re still fact-finding we’re
still gathering information and you’ll
hear the police make reports sometimes
no i can’t answer that question we can
tell you this we can tell you that we
can’t answer that question it’s still up
under investigation when the
investigation is complete we’ll give you
updated information while you’re still
in a stage of investigation don’t start
bragging
if joseph would have followed that he
would have never ended up in the pit
don’t tell your brothers you’re going to
be king before your king
or they’ll throw you in a pit and tell
your daddy you’re dead
[Applause]
let’s get the architect’s blueprint this
kind of fact-finding moment isn’t done
in front of the presser around a whole
lot of people yet moses is gathering
intelligence and exposing it to the
public in real time speed
and i’m like tripping off of this
because
the the intelligence that he’s gathering
is is relative
and intelligence is always relative
intelligence is based on perspective
and so you don’t want to send out mixed
messages to multitudes
because if you send out mixed messages
to multitudes it creates murmuring
that’s why i want you to delete some of
your pictures
on your instagram
because one moment you’re talking about
how good god is
and your your your name on there is big
breath
betty
and you’re sending mixed messages and we
don’t know which one of you
[Applause]
did i say that out loud
i didn’t mean to say that i i i
apologize big breasts betty i didn’t
mean to call your name out loud
in the middle of my sermon but but there
has to be a continuity of information if
i know
it’s a cultural thing pray for me
you can’t create trust
with conflicting truth
and so they’re having a private debate
in a public place
ten of the spies have said we can’t do
this
there’s no way in the world we can do
this
now look at this for a minute wait a
minute the option to not doing this is
living in the desert
where we have been for the last 40 years
when when you look at the option of not
going forward
it will give you courage to fight the
opposition
because i don’t know about you i’m more
afraid of stagnation than i am
opposition i would rather fight the
opposition than to succumb to the
frustration of stagnation and wasting my
life being stuck in the same spot do i
have anybody related to me in here are
you from are you from my tribe holla at
me if you ready to make a move
only joshua and caleb brought back a
positive report
two men out of 12 again
outnumbered
their report is a true report
but they were outnumbered
i won’t focus on joshua as he will get a
lot of face time in the scriptures he he
will fight the amalekites uh he he will
become moses his successor he he he will
split the jordan river he will march
around the walls of jericho he will
defeat jericho he will successfully
subdue the promised land i’m not going
to spend a lot of time on him because he
gets a lot of face time in preaching a
lot of face time in scriptures a lot of
face time in history but i am fascinated
by caleb
and i’m shocked that joshua who is
mighty in battle
did not silence the crowd
with his ability to fight
and i’m fascinated that caleb who has
less face time
seemingly has more
influence
can it kind of go deeper can i go deeper
the bible so i started studying caleb
caleb the bible says has another spirit
he’s just a different kind of guy
but but but what about caleb who who
what can we know who is this man who
silenced the entire
congregation millions of people shut up
when he spoke up
what do we really know about him he he
he is outnumbered in the text he one man
stood up and silenced the whole crowd
the first thing he teaches me is use
your voice
[Applause]
even when you’re outnumbered use your
voice don’t let anybody take your voice
i have a right to my opinion i have a
right to say what i think i have a right
to speak how i saw it even if everybody
else sees it another way i still have
the right to say what i saw
[Applause]
he is he’s outnumbered by the 12.
he’s outnumbered in the details provided
in the torah he’s he he is mentioned in
the koran
but not by name
caleb
has a low profile
but a powerful voice
what gives him the power to silence this
crowd in such a dynamic way and see what
10 others did not see
no wonder the bible said he had another
spirit when you see
what others cannot see you can do what
others cannot do glory to god
imma say it again for the people in the
back when you see
what others cannot see you can do what
others cannot do
good god almighty type it on the line
when you see what others cannot see you
can do what others cannot do turn up had
another spirit and the bible said that
because caleb had another spirit god
blessed him god will bless you if you’re
willing to be different if you step out
from the herd if you get away from the
pack if you’re willing to be ostracized
if you’re willing to be cussed out if
you’re willing to be cast down god will
bless you
[Music]
[Applause]
not somebody tell them i got another
spirit
i got another spirit the devil don’t
know who he’s fooling with i got another
spirit i got another spirit i was cut
off another piece of material i got
another spirit i’m not trying to be like
you i’m not trying to fit in with you
i’m not trying to win you i am who i am
you like me or you know this is it check
it out
[Music]
it is what it is
[Applause]
my god can you feel the anointing that’s
in this place can you feel the anointing
somebody’s faith is leaping up and down
in their belly somebody’s getting a
witness down in their soul somebody’s
getting a confirming word on the stream
somebody’s getting the confidence to go
where they’ve never gone before and
everybody says you’re a fool but you’re
willing to be called a fool and laugh
laughing because you have another spirit
and god said he’s going to give you a
voice that will silence your enemy that
will silence your critics that will
silence your opposition that will
silence your story god said when you
open your mouth he’s gonna shut them up
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
not somebody say i’m outnumbered
but i’m all right
and give god a praise
i’m outnumbered
but i’m all right
i’m outnumbered
but i’m all right
i’m outnumbered
but i’m all right serena i’ve always
been outnumbered but i’ve always been
all right
i’m outnumbered
but i still believe
that god’s word is true
if you got the spirit of caleb
give me three seconds of the holy ghost
[Applause]
i’m all right
i’m all right
i’m all right by myself i’m all right if
you don’t say it man i’m all right if
you don’t like me i’m all right if you
don’t like what i got on i’m all right
i’m good with it
[Applause]
can i feed you just a little bit more
sit outside i want to feed you just a
little bit more i’m running out of time
but i feel something but i feel
something but i feel something and i
feel something about to break and i feel
something about the break in the spirit
world and when it breaks in the spirit
world it’s gonna break in every area of
your life when it breaks in your belly
you’re gonna flood your situation when
it breaks in your heart it’s gonna renew
you oh my god
somebody’s praying for me and i can feel
it somebody’s got my back cause i can
feel your hand in my back pushing me
forward i’m gonna break this yoke before
i sit down i’m a prank
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
let me move on i gotta hear traditional
jewish scholars
record a number of stories and theories
about caleb which expand on the biblical
accounts
it expands on it in many
significant ways one account records
that caleb wanted to bring produce from
the land but the other spies discouraged
him from bringing the produce from the
land to avoid giving the israelites
a positive impression of canaan
so the spies were arguing
how much do we show them
if we show them how much they can have
they’re gonna get excited about
possessing the land
only caleb wanted
to expose them to what’s next there are
very few men
that are confident enough in who they
are to expose you to what’s next
caleb pulled out his sword and got ready
to fight he said i’m not going back
empty-handed we gotta show them
something and they argued about it and
they almost went to blows about it and
the historian said that they settled on
the fact
that they would they would at least show
them the grapes
so they pull check this out a cluster of
grapes
now i know what a cluster of grapes is i
have eaten a cluster of grapes
but this cluster of grapes was so big
that it took two men
to be able to carry it
and the lord told me to tell you
that what he has for you
is not what you saw at the grocery store
it’s not what you saw in the magazine
but it’s so big
it’s gonna take two men
to carry back one
cluster
[Applause]
[Music]
last three people say this is gonna be
big this is gonna be big
this is gonna be big
this is gonna be big i can tell by the
giants i can tell by the fight
i can tell by the sickness
i can tell by the struggle
i can tell by the demonic attack that’s
been launched against me whatever god is
about to do it’s going to be bigger than
i could imagine it’s gonna be greater
than i could ever conceive it’s gonna be
exceedingly abundantly above all the
exceedingly abundantly above all that
are exceedingly abundantly above all
that i can i gotta get ready i can’t get
ready for grocery store grapes
if i’ve got grapes so big that it’s
gonna take two men
[Applause]
[Music]
and caleb wanted to bring more produce
but because the 10 spies
did not want to incite the people
to possess the land
they discouraged him
he fought him back and at least
got to show them the grapes
i want to talk to somebody you don’t
know all the details yet but you have
seen the grapes on what’s next in your
life every person who’s dragging some
grapes
that are prophetic to where you’re going
give him a moment of praise in this
place
yes
i see the grapes
i see the grapes
it’s heaven
but i’m carrying the grapes
it’s bigger than i expected but i’m
carrying the greats
i got to go into a partnership but i’m
carrying the grapes
i had to open up a limited liability
partnership but i’m carrying the grapes
what god is getting ready to do for you
you can’t do it by yourself
you’ve gone as far as you can go
by yourself
these grapes are big
these grapes are being
these grapes are big
these grapes are big
these grapes are big
these grapes are big
the devil don’t like it
hell don’t like it the witch don’t like
it your body is fighting you your health
is fighting you but the devil is alive
if i gotta drag it back
with
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so i went a little deeper
and i started reading the midrash
and a midrash
is
a commentary
on old testament theology
that includes both the written
and all interpretations
of the scriptures
and it’s called a midwestern when you
read the midrash it opens up insight
that caleb is fully
devoted to the lord
and to moses
until you can be faithful
to that which pertains to another man
you can never have your home
until you can work in somebody else’s
house as if it were your house you can’t
conceive
what god can do
in your life
somebody give me more time
i feel the holy ghost
about to break a yoke and when the yolk
is broken
the blessings are going to flood your
life
get ready to swim in it
get ready for your tobacco
get ready for the power of god to come
down in your life
[Applause]
so the midwest says that he was wholly
devoted to
the lord and to moses
splitting from the scouts
he also went over into hebron
on his own
and visited the graves
of the patriarchs
to remind himself
of what he came from
whenever i get in a fight
i go back in my past
and tell the devil you’re not fighting
the td jakes they know
you fighting the storefront tdjs
you fighting this tv jason was preaching
and frying chicken and selling dinners
to keep the church doors open
you fight the country td jakes that
preach with a towel wrapped around his
neck that left wet spots in the floor
and not only that
you’re fighting my mother
you’re fighting my grandmother
you’re fighting my grandfather you’re
fighting my great-great-grandfather
all of my ancestors are standing up here
preaching with me
all of my ancestors you’re fighting all
the mississippi here all of alabama
you’re fighting nigeria you’re fighting
ghana
you’re fighting the west coast
all of my ancestors are down inside of
me
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
people who survived
against all adversity
people who ran away
and threw
balls of cornbread
at the dogs that were chasing them
and that’s why they’re called hush
puppies
because it would husk a puppy
long enough for them to run
you can’t handle this
i’ll throw bread in your face
i’ll shut up your barking
i’ll run through the woods
i’ll weave rice in my hair
and live off the rice
you’re fighting everything i came from
so the men were saying
i’m almost there
don’t let me go
cause i’m just not getting be part of
life
it took me a while to get there
the midrash said
that caleb had a voice
that was so loud
that when they got ready to get the
grapes they had to drive off the sons of
haynik
and caleb shouted so loud
that the giants ran
and the holy ghost said to me
tell my people
you can bring it down with a shout-out
[Applause]
if you open your mouth
the giants will run
if you open your mouth
the wall will crumble
if you shout
god’s given you a voice
caleb had a strong voice
that’s why you shut up the enemy
stop being quiet
stop being cute
stop being polite
pull your earrings off
open up your mouth
kick off your shoes
this means war
devilish means whoa
[Applause]
shall you
yes
[Applause]
ah
[Applause]
[Applause]
my god i feel the holy ghost about to
take over this church
i feel the spirit of god
speaking to somebody in this room
i feel demons
running for exit doors
because somebody opened their mouth
i feel cancer
power
[Applause]
tell the devil i’m getting ready to
shout
i’m getting ready to scream i’m getting
ready to holler
i’m getting ready to go to war
you can’t have my stuff
you can’t have my peace
you can’t have my joy
give me 30 seconds of holy ghost shout
music
i
got a feeling
[Music]
wow
[Music]
open your mouth
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
give him a praise in this place
[Music]
[Music]
i see the warriors
i see warriors all over this room
i see warriors and they gonna take and
laying down you will open your mouth and
shout
you’re outnumbered
but the power is in your mouth
you shall have
whatever you say
[Music]
[Applause]
i think
[Applause]
[Music]
caleb
is the son
of
jefferson
and jeff and her
ancestors
were kennezites
and the kinazites
dwelt in canaan
and the reason he went
to the tombs of the patriarchs
was to remind himself
that this is my natural habitat
it might feel strange
but this is the land
of my forefathers
and when he began to remind himself
that these grapes are normal
[Music]
to who i am
they might feel heavy
but the norm
who i feel like preaching so bad
to who i am
it might feel strange
but it’s normal
to where i came from
until you think you have a right to be
blessed the devil will talk you out of
being blessed
but i came to serve notice
devil you a liar
this is my stuff
i ain’t gonna let you have
my stuff
this is my house
you may be living in it
but it’s my house
suddenly i understood
why caleb
had a different report
he had a different
perspective
[Applause]
he had a different perspective
he had a perspective of ownership
not stewardship
the tombs reminded him
of his story
of his ancestry
that the only reason you’re in this mess
is that the enemy
is sitting on your land
and we’re not stealing from them
they’re squatters
all of the canaanites
all of the hittites
all of the jebusites
had come in since abram had left
there squatters on my left give me my
stuff back
give me my house back
give me my piece back
give me my joy back up
give me my family back
give me my child back
are you crazy that’s my child
[Applause]
[Music]
everybody standing the amazing thing was
this
[Applause]
you see
ten spies
brought back what the bible says was the
evil report
but it didn’t say
that they were lying
they were not lying
evil
doesn’t always lie
the ten spies were reporting the facts
the facts were
the jebusites
dwell in the land
and the garish heights
dwell in the mountains
and the canaanites
are down by the river
the facts were
we also saw the sons of anac
and the facts were
the sons of anac
were huge
[Applause]
and no matter what you do with this text
you cannot negate the fact
that the sons of anak
were as big over them
as people are
over grasshoppers
this is not just low self-esteem talking
these are facts
[Applause]
we were in their
as grasshoppers
we were outnumbered
they were they were taller than us
they were more than us
their cities were walled they did not
lie
the fact that the bible said it was evil
doesn’t mean it wasn’t true
it calls it evil
because it contradicts
the facts
contradict
the truth
[Music]
[Applause]
for example the facts are
you are in debt
the truth is
god will supply all of my needs
according to his riches and glory
the fact is you got a lump in your
breasts
the truth is
by his stripes we are healed
the facts are
you have a need right now
the truth is
the lord is my shepherd
i shall not want
ten spies brought back facts
two spies brought by truth
and when all the facts are over
it is not the facts that set you free
it is the truth
that sets you free
the truth is
if god before you
he’s involved in the world against you
the truth is if god is on your side
you can’t be outnumbered
the truth is
one can chase a thousand
and two ten thousand you have to decide
are you gonna live by the facts
[Applause]
or are you gonna fight for the
truth
[Music]
facts
have sent innocent men to jail
[Applause]
facts
have caused unnecessary surgeries
[Applause]
facts have made
descendants give up
airship to property
the
facts are they’re about to sell
grandpa’s house for back taxes
the truth is if we all get together
[Applause]
we can take it back you have to decide
right now
you hear what i said right now
before you click off you have to decide
right now are you going to live by the
facts
or are you going to stand for the truth
caleb stood
for the truth
and he stood so long
moses died
and caleb was still standing
at
85 years old
caleb was still standing
at 85 years old caleb said
to joshua
i serve faithfully
under moses
and moses is dead
i serve faithfully under you
now give me this mountain
he’s 85 and he’s still under attack
he’s 85
and he’s still using his voice
he’s 85 wait a minute he could have
chose
a land that had already been conquered
but the spot he picked out
meant he had to fight
at 85.
listen at me
everybody my age and older
the day
you stop fighting
it’s the day
you stop living
[Music]
strengthen yourself
drag yourself up
and tell god give me something to fight
as long as i got something to fight
my limbs will move
motion is lotion
i gotta keep moving
if i stop fighting death will take me
i ain’t going out like that
caleb was 85 years old
and he said give me something to fight
[Applause]
but caleb
if i give you that piece of ground
you’re asking for you’re going to be
outnumbered
okay
outnumbered all my life
i’ve been outnumbered all my life
i’m used to being outnumbered
i can still win it
listen at me there’s some
thing in your life
that makes you think you’re disqualified
you didn’t finish school
you had a baby out of wedlock you went
through a divorce you come from a broken
home your emotions are shattered we all
got some reason
to settle
but we also got a reason to fight
if a 85 year old man
has not lost his voice
and has not lost his fight i’m not
saying he ran like he did when he was
40.
but i’m saying he was a bad 85.
he was a tough 85
because it ain’t
the years on the body
it is the mentality
of the mind
as a man thinketh in his heart
[Applause]
so is he
i told the lord i don’t care what you do
with me
i’m yours
i don’t care where you place me
how you plant me i’m yours
but always leave me something to fight
give me a reason to get out the bed in
the morning
give me a reason to shave my face and
get dressed and have something to do
because when i run out of something to
do
i run out of reasons to live
young folk get up off your grandmama’s
couch
and fight something
you’ll never find out how smart you are
how tough you are how strong you are
[Applause]
until you fight back
[Applause]
and i know you’re outnumbered
that’s chapter
but fight back
i know the odds are against you
but fight back
i know the facts are against you
but the truth is you gotta fight back
fight the facts back where the stats say
you’re at risk
and the stats say
that a person from your background
isn’t going to go anywhere but to jail
and the stats say i don’t care
what the stats say
i’m going to outnumber the numbers
so i preached to you
[Applause]
about being
outnumbered
in the book of numbers
because the numbers may be against you
but you can outnumber
the numbers
[Music]
yes sir
i love the way you shouted that out
i love the way you shouted that out
because hell heard you say that
when you said yes i can demons heard you
say that
when you say yes i can d sickness heard
you say that when you said yes i can
weakness heard you say that somebody
shout yes i can
[Music]
[Applause]
as i come to a close in this message
this is a word for people
whose facts outnumber you
but the truth is god
gave them
everything that was against him
the truth overcame every fact
that the spies reported
and in the end
the truth beat out the facts
so jesus does not say
you shall know the facts and the facts
will make you free
[Applause]
you shall know the truth
and the truth shall set you free
so jesus walked over to a woman
who had been bowed over for 18 years
bent in a way that she could not lift up
herself
and she came to jesus
bent over
jesus never said woman you are bent over
because those were the facts
the truth said woman
thou are loosed
and the moment the truth hit the facts
the facts came into alignment
with the truth
the bible said immediately she
straightening up herself
that spirit of straightening is in this
room right now
that spirit of divine alignment is in
this room right now
that spirit of empowerment
is in this room right now
that spirit of speaking against the
multitude
and stealing the voice silence the voice
of all of those
who are murmuring
shut them up
[Applause]
i have always said the best answer to
criticism is success
[Applause]
god told me
to tell you
to shut their mouth
he’s not going to do it for you
you
have to speak
up
because the power of life and death
it’s in your tongue
[Applause]
as i prepare to close today
if you want to sow in this prophetic
word sow
into this prophetic word if your
business needed this prophetic word
so out of your business into this
prophetic word if if you needed
this word so into this prophetic word
what does that mean it means build an
altar and offer up a sacrifice
as an acknowledgement is god i
hear you
talking right to me
i heard what the preacher said but i
also heard what you said through what
the preacher said
you talking to me about something i’ve
been scared of
something i’ve been running from
something i felt like quitting about
and you just pushed me in the back and
stopped me from procrastinating
everybody heard something different
somebody’s going back to school
somebody’s opening up a business
somebody starting a mission field
i don’t know what it is that god told
you was your promise
but i do know that god is tired of you
settling on your
because you’re afraid of your promise
and i’ll give you a moment i won’t beg i
won’t plead i won’t give an amount i
won’t that’s between you and god i don’t
know what it’s worth to you i have no
idea how big your grapes are
[Music]
look at somebody say i got big grapes
one cluster
took two men
you’re gonna need partnership
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you don’t need alignment to carry
what god is getting ready to drop on you
now you’re going to be hard-headed and
be solo you’re going to lose your grapes
god is doing something
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i told my wife i’ve heard from the lord
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she knows i walk around the house
looking funny until i heard from the
lord once i hear from the lord we can go
anywhere we can do anything that we got
to do but until i hear from the lord i
don’t want to come to you
until i have heard
from the lord
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she said you’re all right i said i’m
good now
because god told me to preach
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