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open your Bibles with me to the book of
Isaiah Isaiah
53 who has believed our report and to
whom is the Lord the arm of the Lord
revealed he shall grow up before him as
a tender plant and as a root out of dry
ground he will have no form of
comeliness or
handsomeness and when we see him there
is no beauty that we should desire him
he has despised and rejected a Man of
Sorrows AC acquainted with
grief and we hit as were our faces from
him he will he will be it’s a metaphor a
root out of dry ground he’s trying to
draw a mental picture Isaiah sees
something he sees Messiah is coming but
he says this is different the atmosphere
the the environment in which he will be
planted into will not be conducive to
growth he will come out of extreme
adverse conditions but those adverse
conditions will not determine the
outcome you may be facing adverse
circumstances but they do not have to
determine the outcome of your life you
may have come out of a troubled home
family you may have come out of abuse
and pain and you may be in a mess right
now even while I’m speaking to you
wherever you’re watching this or hearing
this
message but he emphasizes the
unfavorable conditions the Messiah would
appear from that’s a pattern that’s a
Bible principle he is not moved by the
unfavorable conditions that we struggle
with and it may feel like you’ve got a
son or a daughter a mom or a dad that
it’s just not the condition that God
could really do anything in their life
you don’t understand the principle that
he’s a root out of dry ground he doesn’t
he does not need anything from that
person for him to do what he
does
hallelujah he mentions the lack of
physical attraction concerning Jesus
that he would not
possess that he would not fit The
Stereotype of previous Jewish leaders
for example David the Bible said was
handsome he was comely he was handsome
unusual uh features and strong and
handsome man the Bible says of Saul the
first king of Israel he he looked like a
leader he um he stood ahead and
shoulders the text says physically of
his stature was a head and shoulders
above every other man in Israel when he
walked in the room he stood out he
looked like a winner he looked like a
leader he fit all of the
criteria of uh someone who would grab
the attention of masses of people not
Jesus not Jesus he will come to power
out of dry ground Barren it’s a
description of someone who would appear
to look like they do not have much of a
chance to
survive not to mention to thrive and
grow and take over the world what a joke
the times in which Jesus came and was
born was a time of immorality immorality
was rampant they sexual
immorality uh was rampant in the world
in the time that Christ was born they
were serving multiple gods false
religions
everywhere hate was stronger than love
but it’s in that dry Barren desert of a
land that that suddenly the tender plant
begins to take root and grow the high
priest’s religious system was
corrupt they had been invaded by Babylon
been invaded by Persians been invaded by
the Greeks and by the now conquered by
the Romans and Israel had was just a
shell of its glorious past they were not
a powerful Nation there was nothing it
was dry ground Jesus in the lineage of
David had lost the lineage of David had
lost the crown had lost its Glory it was
no big deal to anybody but Jewish people
the Romans could care less they
laughed you have to understand that had
he descended from Caesar had he
descended
from uh Pharaoh or some powerful person
who had armies and wealth and power that
might have given him a little chance to
actually become someone that could
change the world world but this is just
a root out in the desert it has no hope
there’s nothing in the circumstances
around it that will cause it to grow up
and be
anything his identity as a Jew added
nothing it was an honor to be a part of
the Seed of Abraham only among the Jews
it meant nothing Judaism had lost its
thrill it was nothing but legalism it
was nothing but ritualism had he been
Greek had he been a philosopher had he
been a Roman citizen at least he would
have some kind of Pathway to to becoming
powerful and mighty but he was just a
root out of dry ground his birth think
about it was not in a Royal Nursery it
was in a
Barnard and then to add to that dry
ground he lived in the city of Nazareth
and the question was asked often it was
a saying it was a it was part if you
wanted to get a point across of how
pitiful somebody was they would say can
anything come good out of Nazareth every
time he introduced himself as Jesus of
Nazareth it said to that culture he’s
he’s from trash he’s from nobody’s there
is no lineage there is nobody powerful
there is nobody influential who has ever
come out of Nazareth it’s really amazing
that this tender
plant didn’t just spring up but he grew
the text
said that tender plant that came out of
the most adverse
circumstances overcame where he came
from because he had been planted in the
in the earth and that tender plant grew
in a magn into a magnificent tree of
life that would bring shelter and would
bring shade to the troubled brows of men
and women who had the Son and the
pressures of life and the diseases and
the Hopeless situations they run into
the Sha shadow of the
almighty and they find the secret place
where there’s healing and there’s help
and there’s hope through
him through those conditions out of that
place of
obscurity in the middle of barren
dry dry ground comes the root
the tender plant didn’t die I want to
announce this morning he still lives the
root out of dry ground is still alive
it’s easy to get your eyes on this world
and you see all the craziness the woke
culture you see everything that’s going
on that evil is called good and good is
called evil and nowadays it’s almost
like you you you feel like this this is
this whole world is so wicked and so
evil and we get discouraged and we
forget he didn’t come into a perfect
society and he came into dry ground so
if the schools and the universities have
kicked God out and and it’s you know
what that’s just dry ground for Jesus to
be planted and he’ll prove it again I
don’t need anything to change this all
you need to do is what you’re doing fast
and pray and seek me and then get the
seeds of the word of life and start
planting Jesus everywhere it’s dry it’s
bad aren it’s lifeless and if he ever
gets room in any condition it doesn’t
matter how bad it is he will start
growing why did he grow cuz he was God
manifest In the
Flesh he needs nothing outside himself
to survive he is
self-existent he did not need the help
of men to survive he did not need
political connections to survive and
Thrive he didn’t need position power
wealth he didn’t need any of it and he
still doesn’t he can do it all by
himself he’s God and he was manifest In
the Flesh he does not need soil that’s
fertile to
survive boy we got to approach God that
way we got to get back to that because
if we don’t watch it we get to thinking
that boy you know you know I I’m really
something no you’re not he did did not
need Soul he did not need anything he
could have chosen
anyone he could have used anyone when I
look at this ministry and I see what God
is doing I want you to know he did not
have to I have not done this and you
have not done this all we were was
people who said I’m going to give him
some room I’m going to give him some
space my life is the dry Barren
Wilderness I am nothing I have nothing
to to offer him but boy when I dropped
him into my Barren life he took my mind
he took my body he took my heart he took
my dreams he took my vision he took my
talents and he said let me see what I
can do you can’t do it on your own I
could do it through anybody but since
you gave me
room I’ll I I’ll I’ll let something grow
out of the dryness and barrenness
uselessness fruitless life
that you are the soil contributed
nothing the soil dry ground doesn’t give
anything doesn’t support the plant
doesn’t support the growth That’s The
Power of Jesus he’s
self-sufficient plant Jesus in a nation
and watch what he’ll do plant Jesus in
our schools oh I want to scream it plant
him plant him but he can fix our schools
he can fix education he can fix our
economy he can can fix the church he can
fix the problems in the family in the
home he can fix all the gender confusion
plant Jesus he’s not afraid of it he
likes he likes the circumstances that
are adverse for for him he actually
likes to go to crack houses he actually
likes to go to strip clubs he likes it I
didn’t say you need to like it I said he
likes it stay out of there you ain’t
that you ain’t got that much Jesus you
just sew it
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come on y’all looking at me like I crazy
I I’m starting to feel this thing kick
in plant Jesus in
Africa plant him plant him in the
jungles of South America plant him in
communist China and watch that church
come out of dry ground plant him in
socialist Europe and watch that church
come alive I’m not giving up on the
world I’m not giving up on the nation of
the world plant him in Russia and they
can say God’s not real but watch him
watch him he doesn’t need the government
he doesn’t need the president he doesn’t
have to have anybody he just needs a
space plant him in downtown
Atlanta plant him in Southern
California that’s what we
did
and I get so aggravated when I go out
there
sometimes it’s just a crazy
Godless money money money is their God
things homes this that the other people
told me now you gonna have to change
when you go to California because and I
walked in and I scream like I scream I
preach and I just plant Jesus and
thousands of people showed up to the
glory of God it works where wherever we
go I guess what I’m trying to say is
don’t you give up on anybody that you
have on this fast on your mind because
the Lord says I am the root out of dry
ground you see no circumstances that
show any
positivity that Jesus is going to grow
there he says you just keep planting
me but I want to tell you an incredible
story true
story in 194 49 Billy Graham went to Los
Angeles California as basically he was
known in the Baptist denomination as a
young evangelist but they had not heard
of him Nationwide or any worldwide
certainly
not he felt like God wanted him to put
up his tent in Los Angeles and have a
crusade in the middle of Hollywood and
the City of La
and he had a press conference and a few
came and they searched the papers the
next day looking for PR that would help
build the
crowd and not one article was written
but there was a woman once the Revival
started it started and it was just kind
of bumping along few hundred
people there was a woman who was a
presbyterian lady and she was a Bible
teacher her name was h Henrietta MIRS
and she invited Billy Graham one
afternoon while he was preaching that
crusade to to her Hollywood Hills Home
there in California to speak to a group
of Hollywood personalities very
influential the biggest movie stars some
of them of that
time and there was a country Western
Star by the name of Stuart
Hamlin
who also hosted a local radio show live
every day that covered all of Los
Angeles it was one of the biggest movie
stars of that day and that
era he was Infamous for
his drinking and carousing with women
and brawling and gambling that was what
he was known off of the movie
screens and he had a huge huge huge
following
and that day at that lunch in that
woman’s home with several people Billy
Graham and this man Stuart
Hamlin they
connected and they took a liking to each
other and Billy gram began to long to
see this man who was far from God come
to
Jesus the campaign went on for three
weeks as he preached Under the Tent and
not one time did steuart would come and
hear him preach but he would call him
and they would eat meals and they would
talk and
laugh
just had to make a decision Billy Graham
did at the end of the three weeks his
his sponsors came his organiz his
organization people and they said um we
feel momentum is building this third
week we think we should go a few more
weeks with the
Crusade and Billy Graham had never done
that before
for and he said that he was hesitant
because he had never done it before but
he said I’ll pray about it and he said
he prayed about it this is Billy
Graham’s words and he said he asked God
for a sign should I go on with that
meeting in Los
Angeles the next morning at 4:30 a.m. he
received a call that awakened him in his
hotel room it was Steward on the other
line he said my wife and I Susie need to
come see you this afternoon can we see
you at your
hotel he met with them at the hotel and
they talked about his life how broken
his marriage was how messed up his life
was how addicted bound he was to
alcohol and that night for the first
time Stuart went to Billy Graham’s
Crusade and broke and walked down down
the aisle and gave his heart to Jesus
Christ and was gloriously gloriously
saved shortly after that meeting moved
to another place steuart Hamlin this
movie
star had a dear friend his best friend
was a man who was the largest movie star
of that day his name was John
Wayne they were neighbors and lived in
the same neighborhood and John had been
off filming and had missed the whole
Revival of Billy Graham for months he
had been filming on location he came
back into town and Stuart said I felt
the need to go share with my friend how
Jesus had changed my life they had
parted together they had done everything
that Hollywood had to offer together
fame
fortune and steuart said he went to his
home that night and he had gathered some
of the other friends in the neighbor
neighborhood because he hadn’t seen them
for months and they were having a dinner
he said the subject came up and they all
began to talk about and this is the
subject how people can solve problems
within themselves and everybody had
their own philosophies not one time was
God or Jesus mentioned and they got to
steuart
Hamlin and they said what do you
think he said these words he hadn’t
written the song yet but he said it is
no
secret what God can do in a man’s
life two hours later he went to leave
and John Wayne got up and followed him
to the door of his
mansion and he said to Stuart he said
you know what you said it is no secret
what God can
do he said that’s a powerful statement
it got me right here you should go John
Wayne told him this is his own words why
where the inspiration came from he said
you should go home and write a new song
and call it it is no secret what God can
do this is a heathen
telling he said he
left John Wayne’s home when a few houses
down sat down at his piano in his own
mansion and within 17 minutes he wrote
the words and the
music the ches of time
I want to sing this a
minute ring out the news another day is
through someone slipped and fell I love
this was that someone
you for there is no power that can
conquer
you while God is on
your
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side take
him at his
promise don’t
run for the
door and
hide it is no
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secet do you need a miracle this morning
morning come and stand do you need
Freedom this morning do you need God to
do something you can’t do are you in
adverse circumstances and you don’t know
how to change them in some area of your
life slip out of that seat and walk down
humble yourself give him room don’t be
like the Room Keeper in the Bible the
hotel keeper that said I don’t have room
in the end give it to him make room for
him in your heart walk down that aisle
in every campus walk walk down that
aisle and give it to
Jesus it’s no secret what God can do
there are so many of us who could say
all we did was make R for Jesus and he
made something beautiful out of our
Lives God does not need the perfect
circumstances in your life to do the
miraculous your part is to make room and
say God I give you room in my mind
that’s why you’re watching this program
you are already doing that you would
have flipped the channel but you’re
making room for Jesus and when you plant
Jesus into your life today when you plan
him into the battle you may be going
through the marital situation the family
issues just plant Jesus into it I speak
freedom to you today he can change it
and I want you to invite him into your
life just pray this prayer today say
Lord Jesus I give you my life I
surrender to you I plant you into my
Barren dry desert and you’re the root
out of dry ground you don’t need
circumstances that are perfect for you
to work in my life and that’s why I have
hope today and I praise you we plant you
in into every desert Wilderness dry
place and Lord we thank you that you’re
our provider Jehovah Gyra in Jesus name
amen and amen if you just prayed with me
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thanking from the bottom of my heart all
of you who have been giving to the
newest initiative that we are involved
in in the nation of Israel we’ve been
giving to Israel and and I just say this
for the glory of God we have been able
to sew millions and millions and
millions of dollars into the nation of
Israel over the last 20 years but we’re
taking on something this time that is
really I think the most beautiful thing
that we’ve done thus far we’re building
the esal resilience Center thank you for
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