God has a unique way of incubating us in cramped spaces to prepare us for greatness in our lives. Like the ark, God places us in cocoons for safety and growth. Although it may feel like a prison now, the cocoon is the promise! We must be careful not to abort our blessings because of our impatience. We must realize what is being birthed will cause movement yet stability in our lives. When we expand from distressful places, we can’t allow past trauma to lead us to build a tower of defiance; instead, we must construct an altar of praise.
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we’re gonna go to the book of Genesis
chapter number 8 verse 15 through 22 and
I’m gonna ask you to stand for the
reading of the word hallelujah I’m gonna
be reading out a NIV version of the
scriptures when you have it’s a man then
God said to Noah come out of the ark you
and your wife your sons their wives
bring out every kind of living creature
that is with you the birds the animals
and all the creatures that move along
the ground so they can multiply on the
earth and be fruitful and increase in
number on it so Noah came out together
with his sons and his wife and his sons
wives all the animals and all the
creatures that move along the ground and
all the birds everything that moves on
land came out of the ark one time after
another then Noah built an altar to the
Lord and taking some of all the clean
animals and clean Birds he sacrificed
burnt offerings on it
it’s what I want you check out the Lord
smelled the pleasing of Roma the Lord
smelled the pleasing aroma and said it
is hard never again will I curse the
ground because of humans even though
every inclination of the human heart is
evil from childhood and never again will
I destroy all living creatures as I have
done as long as Earth endures seed time
and harvest cold and heat summer and
winter day and night will never cease
can the church save man
back to that God smell the Lord smelled
this is what was got me going this
morning the Lord smelled the pleasing
aroma and said in his heart never again
will I curse the ground that’s good I
want to talk about when God smells honor
when God smells honor her there’s some
things that I have in my heart to share
with you this morning I’m so excited I
feel like a little boy on Christmas Eve
something is about to happen in this
place today there’s something that
happens in your life in your heart
between you and God when God smells
anybody want to honor God this morning
anybody ready to honor God in such a way
that then you break a curse over your
life with it
anybody wanna honor God in such a way
that that he closes a door on your
history and says never again anybody
wanna honor God in such a way that he
closes out the past and opens up a
bright new future and gets you ready for
what God is about to do with your life
shout amen father I pray that these lips
of clay would be endowed and anointed by
your grace and power and such a
supernatural way that we’re able to be
infused with life and give that what you
have placed down inside of us without
restriction bind every devil and every
evil spirit that would get in the way of
what you would have done today I think
you in advance for what you’re about to
do move in the midst of your people in
the name of Jesus we pray somebody who
loves him shout a man you may be seated
in the presence of God yeah let’s go to
work I have been really really busy this
week I’ve been in various retreats have
been preaching everywhere I’ve been
preaching so much I don’t even know what
day it is or what time it is
one of the interesting things that one
of the sessions said I was in this week
we were talking in a team of pastors and
get away into a retreat every year and
they were talking about how important it
is that you rehearse the simplistic
stories of the Bible because we can no
longer assume today that the
congregation knows the word it used to
be that a text like this is so so
elementary that that I wouldn’t even
rehearse the text but let me explain to
you that one day God told no it was
gonna rain and told to Noah to build an
ark now you must understand that it had
never rained before so Noah didn’t
exactly know what rain was so he’s
building for something that he doesn’t
even understand and yet he builds an ark
an art that looks ridiculous to his
neighbors and friends but he builds an
ark and as God has says he says I’m
going to take the righteous his family
and put them inside of the ark because
man is so wicked
that the wickedness has become so
destructive and so overwhelming that I’m
going to start this whole process over
again and I want you and your three sons
ham Shem and Japheth to get on the in
the ark with your wives and together the
eight souls sealed in with all of the
animals that they could gather
representatives of all of the animals
two by two and the Lord shut the door on
the ark and it began to rain drip drop
drip drop little by little the rain
became so pervasive that the ark begins
to lift and it’s the heart began to lift
and take its buoyancy it began to set
sail for forty days and forty nights as
the earth itself was submerged beneath
water and finally finally as the waters
receded Noah comes to a resting place on
the top of a mountain and it funny how
God will move you where he wants you to
be
Noah comes to a resting place on the top
of the mountain and our text begins at
this stage of the story when the door of
the ark is opened and God begins to
speak to him and I want to talk a little
bit about the whole what what really God
wants us to understand about this this
this amazing experience that happened
during the antediluvian age and and what
it means not only there’s so much that
it means that I could talk all day about
it on one hand I believe God wants us to
understand that he provides a safe place
for his children that that no matter
what’s going on around you that if you
belong to him that he will always put
you into a place of security and take
you through things that you couldn’t get
through by yourself on one hand I want
you to understand that God opens doors
and God closes doors and when God closes
a door no man can open them I think he
wants us to understand that when a door
is open we have to seize every
opportunity to maximize that moment not
assuming that the door will stay open
that anything you’re going to do for God
you must do it now that if you’re gonna
accept it you have to accept it now and
if you’re gonna receive him into your
life that there is no guarantee that
opportunity will remain open to you I
think he wants you to get that out of it
I think he wants you to understand the
buoyancy of a new beginning often is
symbolized by water that Noor and his
sons were actually baptized in the
oceans and the waters in the seas and
those that were not committed to God
were drowned in what the righteous
sailed through
I think he wants you to understand the
advantage of being a believer that Noah
built by faith to the saving of his
house and that ministry begins at home
not a church I think he wants you to
understand that he’s more concerned
about you winning your family that is
you winning your friends of being
impressive to other people that walking
around with egg to some of your cars and
crosses around your neck had Bibles in
your hand and you are not who you say
you are inside your own house I think he
wants us to understand that if the love
of Christ is going to show it’s you show
up first in the way you live outside of
Sunday morning I think he wants you to
understand that he has a way of
designing a safe place so secure that no
matter how violent things are outside
you can have peace inside and I think
that’s a real problem today finding
peace on the inside it’s written ahead
of time in the world when the whole
world is going crazy every time you turn
on the news you see something that makes
you want to throw up God says I want to
insulate you the Bible says that art was
pitched within and without in such a way
that Noah and his family were secure I
think he wants to understand that they
were secure and they were safe and I
think that the Ark is figurative of the
church but I also think he wants you to
understand that even though it was
secure and safe it was kind of smelly in
there imagine being locked up in an ark
for 40 days and 40 nights with all kind
of animals and no bathrooms and no
restrooms and only one window
I think he wants us to admit the fact
that you could be a Christian to be a
believer and be surrounded by other
believers that it can still be smelly in
there I think he doesn’t want us to have
any false illusions that that his arts
are air conditioned that they are
climate control that if you believe
where everything’s going to be
comfortable all the time I think he
wants you to understand that in the
course of dealing with other people that
they bring their own drama into the
atmosphere and that each living thing
contributes to the odor including you so
that you don’t become judgemental and
started talking about the person next to
you and what they did and how awful they
are I think he wants you to understand
that all of us bring a certain stench
with us with our same self with our
Handclap itself with our foot stomp
itself with our Jesus love and Bible
told the scripture quoting him singing
self we all bring a certain stench that
you have to learn to live with I think
he wants you to understand that the
stench on the inside is better than the
storm on the outside so before you give
up on the church and say I don’t want to
be in the stitch just remember that it’s
either the stench or the storm how many
people would rather have the stench then
they have the storm
I know the church has a lot of problems
and a lot of issues that a lot of stuff
for Noah but that stint ain’t so bad
when you think about the storm going on
on the outside are you hear what I’m
saying to you today but there’s
something deeper that I want you to see
this morning about the ark because
because this there are certain things
about God that that never ever change he
is what he is his methods may change but
he is who he is you must understand that
we are to perceive God before scriptures
just by his doings and his actions and
his deeds amongst the people and when I
look at the ark I begin to understand
that God works with cocoons yeah that he
will he will put you into a place of
protection to develop you that how you
go in is not always how you come out
that this incubation that he does with
Noah not only brings us some historical
context context of how God dealt with
the flood and how God recreated a new
environment for man to dwell in but I
think it hips to how God handles us as
well then he’ll put you in a cocoon
sometime in a holding place sometime
make you wait sometime make you endure
something sometime that God has a way of
holding you up while you develop and
will open the door until everything is
ready for you to step
from a smaller place into a much larger
place no wonder he says despised love
today a small beginning the god
incubates greatness in small places in
tight places in isolated places that God
will hold you back until everything’s
ready and being he’ll open up a door for
you people are amazed to find out then I
spent the first 10 years of my life
pastoring less than a hundred people in
the back side of a mountain in a city
with one red light and they said you TV
says yeah yeah yeah but let me tell you
something God starts you out small put
you in a cocoon where he can work on you
and work on your attitude and work on
your leadership and work on your
character and work on your disposition
and work on your integrity and work on
your relentlessness and some of you are
trying to get out of the womb but I want
to warn you that it’s dangerous to get
out of the there women will have two
more pregnancies and and if the baby
doesn’t stay in the room or the baby
begins to just stayed outside of the
world generally the baby doesn’t make it
because when God cocoons you is for your
own protection I want to talk to
somebody who feels as fixated in their
own life and frustrated in their own
circumstances that you’ve been praying
for God to get you out of something I
want to tell you to just get comfortable
and ride it out
anybody understand what I’m saying I
want you to see when we look at the arcs
something about how God incubates
greatness in cocoons and I want you to
understand something about God because
when I looked at the arc and I started
thinking about the arc floating in all
of that water and all that would live
being in the arc I begin to see a
pattern I begin to see a pattern I begin
to see that the same God who gave the
direction for Noah to build the ark it’s
the same God
they gave the insect the cocoon that
nature itself that Noah is it’s doing
what God told him to do but he’s also
imitating what nature is teaching us
about gestation that God puts the insect
in the cocoon so that it can discover
itself so that when it comes out it will
be greater than it was when it went in
so that it can be protected in its early
stages of development that God will
conclude greatness sometimes that you
might not give the reward immediately
you might get your wings immediately you
might not take flight immediately you
might not get married immediately
you might not find a happiness
immediately then sometimes God has to
put you in a cocoon so you can find out
who you really are and you have to have
enough faith to stay where he put you
until he opens up the door to take you
into the next dimension without crawling
your way out to your own destruction
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am i talking good this woman and it
occurred to me that the womb that will
bend the arc and the cocoon are not new
ideas that what God had no one to build
with the arch had been done when God
built the woman
that the woman was the first art that
God would he form the woman y’all don’t
hear what I’m saying to you but when he
put Adam into a sleep and then he built
the woman out of Adam that he built her
with the womb so that the world would
hold life and suddenly I saw a
connection between this and this and
this
I will hear some woman talk to me right
now that when God made the woman out of
the man and the man woke up and sold the
woman he doesn’t start talking about her
hair and her makeup and her fingernails
or anything like that the thing that got
him was she was a man with the womb so
he called a woman oh y’all what I’m
saying to you
you have to understand that when God God
is showing you his methods this is a
pattern that continues to occur all
through the Bible that when God gets
ready to just say anything he puts it in
a controlled environment to incubate it
for what he’s going to do next that life
is in the womb that life is in the
cocoon that life is in the arc that God
creates this to protect you
so what could feel like a prison could
be a promise
Oh
so somebody’s gonna catch me here in a
minute
what could feel like a prison what could
be restrictive what could it be
uncomfortable what could be tight
what could feel like it’s like like like
not easy for me to be in here he could
be God producing a promise in your life
and when the door opens you shall come
forth
who am I talking to this morning I don’t
know about you but I’ve had to stay in
some tight places
I understand some places that were kind
of stinky I came to play I’ve had to
stay in some places that were kind of
sticky I’ve had to stay in some places
that were kind of tight and I wondered
how long Lord how long will I be like
there how long before I get my
breakthrough how long before the job
comes how long before I give the money
how long before I get to breathe how
long before I get but God knew how long
to keep me to protect that which he had
committed into my hands are you
following what I’m saying to you
Tessa might say hang in there see you
don’t want to abort your promise because
of your impatience or you may say that’s
too good to ignore you don’t want to
abort your promise because of your
impatience you want to go through the
whole process if it’s 40 days or not
lunch Lord don’t let me give birth to
something that hasn’t fully developed in
my life here thank you for holding me
back thank you for the doors you didn’t
open thank you for the things you didn’t
release
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see I can’t get off of it see every one
of these every one of these every one of
these feels stuck if you’re in this argh
you feel stuck if you are in this cocoon
you feel stuck if you are in this womb
you feel stuck you cannot live out of
your feelings
because God doesn’t put you in an ark to
make you comfortable and appease your
emotions he puts you in a place to
protect you until the storm is over
until the test is over until the trial
is over and in the fullness of path they
that wait upon the Lord shall renew
their strength they serve an upper
wheeze
just looking somebody said just wait
till I come out of this
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just wait until I come out of this just
wait till I come out of this just wait
till I am obscure right now but just
wait till I come out of this I’m broke
right now but just wait till I come out
of this app lonely right now but just
wait till I come out of this nobody
knows me right now but just wait yeah
just wait just wait just wait just wait
just wait just wait just wait just wait
just wait just wait just wait I got out
of my bed this morning to tell somebody
just wait I put on my clothes this
morning to tell somebody just wait I got
dressed and came down the road to tell
somebody just wait when the storm is
over and the door opens up God is going
to do a new thing in your life can I get
30 seconds of praise
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let me go on a little further I wanna go
on a little further there there are all
kinds of arcs that God issues the woman
was the first one she wasn’t the only
one the ark that Noah built was the next
one but he wasn’t the only one Egypt was
a womb where God incubated the nation of
Israel they went in as a family and they
came out as a nation God incubated them
for 400 years of slavery and the Bible
says the more they afflicted them the
more they grew I want to talk to
somebody that’s incubated in a place of
affliction that the more you’re
afflicted the Lord
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in fact the very Ark of the Covenant
itself is a cocoon the Ark of the
Covenant in the temple is a cocoon to
house the life-giving power of God’s
Word and God’s truth and God’s relevance
and one day God Himself decided to come
in a cocoon so he wrapped himself up in
flesh y’all don’t hear what I’m saying
he poured out of himself his glory and
honor and stepped over into a Virgin
Mary and said I need to build me an ark
so then I can come from eternity down
into time and he said let me use your
body for some construction and we beheld
the wonder of his glory the only
begotten of the Father full of grace and
truth
I’m on a roll with this wolf thing it’s
working on something with this wolf this
I wonder this bit of time in your life
that God shuts you up and shut you down
so he could bring you out stronger did
you have a bit of your life if you
understand that shall a man let me
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the other thing that fascinated me about
the Texas said that God talks to Noah
and his family while they’re yet in dark
he doesn’t wait till they get out to
talk to them but the Texas while they
were yet in the art garden beginning to
talk to them and and it made me thankful
because sometimes the only time I could
stand being in the ark he said God have
you ever had God talked to you in a
tight place
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yeah yeah yeah yeah he God talks to them
in the arc and tells him to come out of
the arc and it for some reason it made
me go to Jeremiah chapter 1 where
Jeremiah and God having an encounter and
God said before I formed thee in the
belly I knew thee our danger and I say
to her
see everybody loves you when you come
out but we have a God who’s doing all
kind of things in your life while you’re
still shut in and the Lord announced to
him it’s time to come out
I made everything ready for you to come
out you’ve been in there long enough now
I’m gonna bring you out the Dory is open
you can come out I don’t know who I’m
talking to this morning but you’ve been
shutting it long enough God is saying
it’s time it’s time to come out looking
somebody say it’s time to come out when
God opens the door don’t stand there
afraid to go through the door when God
opens up a door for you don’t be afraid
to come into the next area
can I can I go deeper you see we like to
shout about coming out and we like to
dance about coming out we like to sing
about coming out but coming out is
traumatic coming out of your cocoon
coming out of a hole coming out of the
arc can be a scary thing it can be hard
it’s like there’s not an inmate in jail
that doesn’t want to come out a prison
until they don’t open that door and he
realizes out is scary new can be
frightening new can be intimidating see
God never brings you out of a cocoon
into something smaller
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he doesn’t bring babies out of wounds
and put them in mason jars if God opens
up the womb he’s gonna bring you into
something that’s so much bigger than
where you were before they’re coming out
could be a scary thing who am I talking
to
we like to think about it we like to
shout about it we like to talk about it
but when the door is open and you
realize I’ve been in my little world so
long they’re coming out into a larger
place means I may not know the language
I may not know who to trust I may not
know how I act I may not know who to
talk to they’re coming out to coming out
and coming out of a home for baby it’s
traumatic
I learned so much being in the labor
room with my wife she was having a baby
I was having class first of all I found
out that that babies don’t look like the
pictures on TV they come out they’re
kind of messy and they’re kind of
bruised RNA and and they kind of they
kind of smelly in and all of that it’s
not like TV I wanted her to have the
Gerber baby
you know the nice fat job baby that they
turn into about five weeks later but
when they first come out there’s a
reason that they wake up screaming
because birth is traumatic all the bones
have to move everything has to share
birth is disruptive come on talk to me
somebody birth means all systems have to
shift in order to accommodate what God
is about to do in your life and those
contractions are for reason because
everything around you has to ship to get
ready for the growth that has happened
to you while you’ve been shut up in the
world come out come out wherever you are
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come out come out
wherever you are can I go deeper with
this it occurred to me that Noah and his
sons were saved and their wives were all
saved but it must have been really
traumatic just think about it for a
minute to be in the ark and hear the
calling outside and the screaming and
the drowning and and and to be the only
one left
imagine if everything outside of this
church exploded was nuked or flooded or
destroyed and we survived just us and on
one hand you’re happy because you made
it but you’re stepping out into
something you have never experienced
before bit like the bruise body of the
baby
sometimes deliverance is traumatic
sometimes better is traumatic sometimes
bigger is traumatic it’s scary you can
see it with college graduates and you
got your degree in you standing there
thinking now what I’m out here now what
do I do outside of this controlled
environment outside of this prison
outside of this room outside of this
cocoon outside of this arch and still
God called him out Noah has a grandson
through cush named Nimrod Nimrod builds
a great Kingdom one of the kingdoms that
he controlled would become Nineveh that
great city Nineveh is founded by Nimrod
and where Nimrod what Nimrod does is he
builds a tower called the Tower of Babel
later where that tower would was built
would be called Babylon
are you hearing what I’m saying now
Josephus the historian says check this
out that Nimrod didn’t just build the
tower out of defiance to God he built it
in part out of fear of the flood in case
this ever happens again
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Oh yo y’all got with me this morning in
case this ever happens again I’m gonna
build something high enough to escape
the flood because Nimrod is still angry
and traumatized by what his father went
through because Nimrod wasn’t alive in
the flood but trauma passes from
generation oh come on come on come on
come on
trauma passes from generation see some
of the nervousness you got you inherited
it recent psychological reports have
been done on survivors of the Holocaust
several generations later their DNA has
been altered by what their
great-grandparents went through now
LeBron is fighting his father’s
experience and he is trying to build up
a defiance against something he himself
did not even
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can I go deeper can I go deeper with
this I want you to understand this the
thing about Nimrod he said Nimrod built
out of fear Noah built out of faith are
you building out of fear or are you
building out of faith the Bible says
Noah being warned of God of things not
yet seen built an ark to the saving of
his house he did it by faith he did it
by what he did it by what yeah by faith
Lord being warned of God of things not
yet seen built an ark to the saving of
his house to all of you who are building
my faith whatever you build my faith
will affect your children and your
children’s children this thing is bigger
than you faith is contagious
faith is continual faith passes now I
know they may not look like it right now
but sooner or later if you build it by
faith they were having awakening
no built by faith and Nimrod built in
fear and anger and negativity that’s why
you got to watch your attitude while
you’re building it’s not just what you
built but why you built it it’s not that
you’re quiet that’s why you’re quiet
see some of you
are so afraid to be loved to be known to
be discovered to be real to be honest
that you have built a quiet wall of
defense around you to protect yourself
and now God is calling you to do things
that are out of your comfort zone
because you built towers but Noah when
he comes out he does not build the tower
even though he has gone through the
trauma Noah does not be if anybody had a
right to build a tower you know how to
be Noah after all Noah already knows how
to build number two Noah is the one
who’s gone through the trauma and yet
the one who experienced it doesn’t build
a tower he built an altar
what do you do when you come through
something that was traumatic and scary
either you build a tower to protect
yourself
or you build an altar to submit yourself
which one are you going to build when
the storm is over everybody builds
something everybody in the story builds
something but Noah built an altar live
rock built a tower what are you working
on can I get into this good God Almighty
Nimrod built a tower because he didn’t
trust God to protect him I’ll protect
myself I’ll build something so if it
ever storms again we’ll go up this tower
and we’ll be safe I’ll build a tower to
heaven because when you have been
through trauma you always build
something you know I love this church
when it gets quiet everybody else loves
church when the shelves I love our
church when we get quiet because when we
get quiet it means you’re saying what
did I be
I don’t know but I bet you spouse does
because they’re having to live in or
with or through what you built
Oh
Oh y’all look like you you just
swallowed a canary
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sometimes you build things you don’t
even know you built
sometimes you snap back you don’t even
know why you snap back
sometimes you’re in rage you don’t even
know why you’re mad you didn’t even
realize that you were building this
tower that God will have to tear down
and that the ashes and the destruction
of that tower would produce a Babylon
that would affect all of history because
you couldn’t handle the trauma of what
you went through that’s why this text is
so powerful because Noah opens the door
after coming through the trauma into a
world that he has never seen recognizing
the fact that the ark is a type of being
born again he comes out of the womb like
a baby birthed into a new experience and
a new world and before he builds a house
a market a grocery store anything at all
the first thing he builds is an altar
the problem with us is that we build the
ultra laugh with your other bills our
ultraverse Oh help me Holy Ghost we bill
our altar after we have done everything
else we can do
and when nothing else works then we say
why I guess I’ll just pray it’s nothing
left to do but pray you don’t pray the
last you pray first no one imagined this
with me hey daddy we don’t have no house
I ain’t worried about the house baby I’m
building this altar the better we got
kids if we got family we got stuff where
you got nothing to do
dime the rules there are no highways
there’s nothing everything’s in chaos
nothing till I build assaulter safety
bus
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oh I wish I had some kingdom secrets the
Bible says seek ye first the kingdom of
heaven in all this righteousness and
everything else shall be added unto you
see you trying to get yours and give
God’s what’s left but if you give God
first everything else you’re vibing with
me you bother with me you feelin this so
the first thing no wonder nor makes it
to the Hall of faith in Hebrews 11 no
I’m not only built an ark he gets out
the ark and he builds an altar
where is your altar
where is your altar where is the place
that only God
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if I ask you where your car is you know
where your car is if I actually wear
your suit is you know where your suit is
if I should wear your brooch is you know
where your bro where is your off
no wonder you act out like you do you
got a war without an altar and a head he
he offers up a sacrifice out of the
Animal Center on the arts y’all
understand that’s all we got left that
is really a sacrifice because there’s
always God when was the last time you
gave God your oh no and I’m not just
talking about money no no no no no no no
no I mean your everything when was the
last time you worship and gave him your
all when was the last time you prayed
and gave me your no wonder you take your
money you can’t even get pray you you
give our little drops of praise like
you’re doing God a favor when was the
last time you gave god yo
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so Noah who built an ark say I’m getting
into this building thing or can I talk
about that a minute
Oh God I wasn’t even don’t say they said
you trusted my spirit I got to give this
for somebody I don’t know who this is
for because it if you want it you gotta
build it
if you want this you got to feel this
nobody’s gonna will you this nobody’s
gonna hand you this you’re not gonna
marry into this if you want this you
gotta build it if you want a better life
you gotta build it if you want a better
marriage you gotta build it if you want
to build a business you gotta build it
stop running around people waving in the
head you something for nothing
there’s not going and going
you have spent years waiting on people
to give you something that they are
never going to give you know understood
if you want to argue gotta build it if
you want an altar you gotta build it if
you want a house you gotta build it if
you want good credit you gotta build it
if you wanna degree you gotta build it
if you wanna business you gotta build it
if you wanna chat
you gotta I’m not gonna guys so you can
pastor
I’m not lying show you the pastor oh my
god but I won’t die so you can be mad
stop trying to kill people put your
brain
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touch me people tell them I got some
building to do
got some building to do I got some
building with you I got some building to
do I got some building with me I got
some building to do I got some building
to do if I don’t have better
I got a building if I don’t have love I
got a build it if I might have a
relationship I gotta build it
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miss Nora couldn’t bill mr. Nora’s altar
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every person I don’t care how close you
are to them
every person got to build their own
altar I can’t bill you all to tell you I
love you I can’t bill I can’t bring your
office but you gotta have your own altar
your own place you only look up your
connection and you have to build it and
so Noah builds an altar this morning I’m
gonna ask you what are you gonna bill
what did God put in your life the raw
materials that need to be built and your
complainant cuz then any bill I gave you
the Woollett
I gave you the wood I’m not gonna make
the chair I gave you the wood and it is
whatever it is it is what it is a result
of what you built it
you want it to be better build it you
want to enhance it build it you want a
better relationship open your mouth and
start communicating it’s not gonna
happen if you don’t you won’t God to
bless your business God will bless your
business but he can only bless what you
build he will bless it but he will not
build it so that means you got to get
off the phone with the people talking
about people
I am 62 years old and I have never met a
rich gossiper I don’t know no rich
costumers every gossiper I know is broke
because rich people don’t have have to
be in your business they got to be
building their own stuff then you get
the record F ragazza back
because if you take them to my business
you ain’t got time to take care y’all
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pestering people said buildin buildin
buildin
this missing I’m almost finished but is
anybody getting anything out of this
word this this this is really to be
honest this is really a weird Bible
story it’s not really a cool Bible story
cuz all these people are dead except
eight people this is a catastrophe
this is a calamity of mammoth
proportions these eight people be
therapy maybe counseling they might need
medication
no wonder Nimrod freaks out and the
question becomes how do you respond to
God when he does something you don’t
like
see you always preach it real pretty and
realize about them coming out but they
coming out of my stall of these dead
people the real test of a true son is
how you respond what I did something you
don’t like the Bible said if you in do a
chest Heisman then you are sons are not
bastards if you’re an illegitimate child
with a chest prize you can walk away but
if you’re really my son with tears in
your eyes you will come back to me
because you came out of me
come on here’s somebody
God said the test of sonship is how you
react to unpleasantries anybody can
praise him when he’s doing stuff you
like can you praise him on a kidney
machine
can you praise him in a hospital bed can
you praise them at a graveside can you
praise them when you’re getting laid off
cuz you’re praising when you’re scared
now we talked about real Christians you
see how the shout range went way down
because half of the people in the world
only praise God when they did good news
but if you’re really his child you’ll
praise it with you don’t understand it
you’re crazy when your heart is broken
you’re praising when you’re upset
I was struck by the presentation this
morning our new Thomas Dorsey wrote
pressures Lord but I didn’t know the
circumstances around him right now but
four dead wife’s from the Dead may be
buried in the same casket he stumbles to
a piano and builds an altar
not understanding why God would give
something and take it away he doesn’t
complain about it he doesn’t get bitter
and uses it as an excuse an excuse to
backslide he stumbles to the viana and
pins to where his precious Lord take me
up take my hand lead me on let me stand
I’m tired I’m weak
I’m worn but through the storm
yeah
through the night
lead me on Lord to the light take my
hand I can’t go through this without you
take my hand precious Lord lead me on
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it is that spirit that made Noah step
down out of the ark and get some wood
and build an altar and he offered up a
sacrifice a sacrifice not a tip
not a toy a sacrifice a sacrifice means
that God doesn’t want you to keep giving
him stuff you can’t feel because if you
can’t feel it
he can’t either what makes the sacrifice
of sacrifice is its significance to you
it’s a statement of value it’s a
statement of value and Noor says I know
I should have drowned too
you had mercy on me
you let me succeed where others fail you
let me get in where others were locked
out you let me complete what other
people stumble there you let me survive
what my friends did not survive even
though I did the same stuff they did oh
you ain’t gonna talk to me this morning
you ain’t talk to me so I’m building
this Alton I’m often I’m dis sacrificed
partly as an admission of the fact that
I should have died too so I offer these
animals in my stead this is the gospel
you took my place he offered a sacrifice
up to God and as he slayed the animals
and laid them out and set them on fire a
burnt offering is always a sin offering
Oh God
I hope you get blessed without Sharia
whoa I couldn’t wait for you to get here
I wanted to preach this so bad I started
to come to your house
I start to come in your living room and
just let you have it just so I could get
this out of me cuz when he gave me this
is bless my soul I want to give him
something he can feel cuz I realize had
he dealt with me according to my sins I
should have drowned with the rest of
them
you didn’t make it to school because she
was better
you made it cuz he was merciful you did
what you got to do was better
you made it because he was kind to you
don’t still get up there and stick your
nose up in the air and I got you
something bring ya
halleluja halleluja
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
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no wait before I do anything I gotta go
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wife will you let my children live is
there anybody in this house is grateful
I said is there anybody in this house
disgraceful is there anybody in the
balcony anywhere watch it on TV watch it
on your phone
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we went to the haunted he went to the
altar to wash up
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he went to the altar to worship
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and as he lay his sacrifice
we ain’t cooked in 40 days and I’m
hungry and I want a meal but then I’ll
eat later I’m going off of this up I
haven’t had any meat for 40 days but I’m
giving the protein to you for the Yaqui
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and you see it’s important that you know
that he set it on fire
because when you set something on fire
you can’t take it back
when you said it Oh far you can’t reach
in and get it you can’t give it to God
and take it back and give it to God take
it back and give it a gun take it back
away with all these people talking about
I gave it to the Lord no you didn’t you
took it back in the car you took it back
in your house you took it back when you
give something to God you put it in the
fire the manner that is what drove me to
the text it was that when he put the
sacrifice on the altar on earth that God
smelled it in heaven
honey the whole story is about when God
smells honor and I’ma prove it to you in
medical anyway I’m a proven to you the
the last verse in Genesis 822 that we
quote all the time it’s not God’s words
while there remaineth they were always
be seedtime and harvest cold and heat
summer in winter holic that’s not God’s
words it was God’s thoughts the Bible
says that when he smelled the sacrifice
the God said to himself
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when he looked down there and he saw no
on his knees and he smelt the first meat
go to him he said no matter how wicked
they get I’m not gonna do that anymore
while the earth remaineth there will
always be seedtime and harvest
day and night
Cole and he there are some things I will
never take you through again
because I smell honor
later he would tell Moses honor that
father and our mother that that days
maybe longer upon the earth which the
LORD thy God giveth thee when God
smells honor
I’m gonna stop we got it we got a lot of
church people that come to church and we
got a lot of people who come to service
but out of this great crowd of people we
got a few folks that offer up a
sacrifice and really give God honor and
if there’s anybody out there under the
sound of my voice who’s got something to
be thankful for
don’t wait on nobody else around you
because most people don’t do it but bill
you an altar and offer you a sacrifice
in the presence of your God and the
glory if he wants you to do anything if
you watch you’re on a sub you thought
you couldn’t get out of it me heal your
body is here indulge your mind it’s the
watch your child through something
they get that Albert dip God up because
with God spells
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real worship is a funky business is the
fact set on fire it’s a bad thing to God
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with God smells honor he smells it in
tears and praise and honor and sacrifice
and your praise is going up before the
throne as smoke before God and when God
smell Dada
he gives promises when God smell huh he
gives promises when God smell vada
ah people coming to church all you want
to that I go to nothing
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Godspell
mama when God smell Dada
young man with God smells on he didn’t
care about what you have or what to grab
or what you hold until God
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God smells on
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he’ll make a decision
he’ll give you a promise
hill-hill your land he’ll hear you laugh
but he can’t do it till he spells
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you want it right now strength when God
smelt up right there if your bedroom
right in your living room right by your
couch you need to stop a minute and let
God smell much smoke coming out of the
chimney you are a sinner praise
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with God smells off
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and the power
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and I go
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for
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is the
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we rest in your presence
we’re a senior
we’re resting in your presence
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we’re asking in your presence
consumers with your power
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we rest in a present she
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we’re
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how the news
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I see smoke going up in the balcony
I see smoke going off in the back of the
church I see smoke going up in the choir
with garlic smells
with God smells are with God smells are
with God spare with your spare
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when God spells when God’s man
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with Godspell
when will it stop wyngarde spells
when will I still live with God smells
with God smelter with God smells leather
give him something he can smile smile
with God’s will
gods and gods fella
I will leave tear smell on won’t stop
tear smell
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go sing to your smeller
go clap to your spell I don’t give to
your smell
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it all belongs to you
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to do
it allows for you the grave can appraise
you the grave can appraise you if you
let me live I breathe if you’re not
believer I’m crazier with God smells
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when Godspell
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father this morning I thank you because
your presence is is in this house and it
is you that we came to see not a reed
blowing in the wind not a song from a
boy so words from a man this you that we
came to see
your presence is in this place right now
and in your presence my problems shrink
so small in your presence my complaints
sound so foolish in your presence I
recognize that I breathe by your grace
forgive us of our foolishness and give
us back our focus
we have a world to build
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we have a world of work to do now like
never before we need to focus on the
assignment before us forgive us from the
folly and the foolishness of the
frivolity of our own vanity our own the
egotistical ideologists if stood in the
way it’s always me me me and I need and
I wanted I apologize it’s not about me
it’s about you it’s not about my
feelings it’s all about you this morning
we pray like David created me a clean
heart
and renew a right spirit of right a
right spirit if ain’t nothing else right
let my spirit be and my job’s not right
if my friends aren’t right if my
situated they let my let me have a right
spirit let let let what I do come from
the right place with the right motive
and protect me from those with ill
motives for Dionysus Kingdom whoa for
thine is the kingdom and the power and
the glory forever and ever
never
and ever
and therefore
and ever
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a man a man
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that the church say man
let the church say man as you moved back
to your seat I want you to move loving
and sharing and praising God for this
moment that we have had in his presence
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this is good
this is good
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yes
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ah
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ha Cory
you’re
Oh
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my god
my god
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brothers and sisters
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found the door
family of God the Lord is in this place
you don’t have to have somebody to lay
hands on you for God to lay hands on you
the Lord is in this place you don’t need
anybody to touch you for God to touch
you the Lord is in this place
and he said to himself
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as long as earth remaineth
I will never take this prove that again
I don’t know what it was you been
through
but while the earth remaineth that will
always be
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hey night good God Almighty
let me stop I feel it
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Wow that’s hard to pick my favorite
woman are loose Mahmoud there were so
many I think perhaps it might be bishop
noel jones and i preaching together
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God over a period of eternity has set an
appointment in a particular moment when
the natural meets the supernatural we
tag-teamed
priest ed he ended up crawling across
the floor like the woman with taste of
blood the place erupted and it was just
an unforgettable moment
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it’s time to come home
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you