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I want to close on my portion of what
God is doing through this particular
story of Mephibosheth um by giving us
what I’m calling damage control
principles because we’ve been following
the life of a guy named Mephibosheth
who’s been damaged from a young age he
was 5 years old when somebody dropped
him he was in line to be royalty all of
it was taken away from him he had a
better future that something happened
and it robbed him of that opportunity
like many of us some of us had a
scholarship and then one wrong play got
hurt and it felt like we were robbed of
what we were destined for or you had all
the self esteem in the world and then
somebody sexually abused you and took
advantage of you and it crushed your
spirit see many people come into these
doors and act like life doesn’t happen
you were over the youth ministry and you
made one mistake and they demoted you
and took the position away from you and
you never want to delete again you were
married to the one you thought was your
forever and they committed adultery and
left the relationship and you felt like
you could never recover hey I don’t know
what’s damaged you in your life but all
of us have an area at least one but if
we’re honest many of us have many areas
that are damaged if we if we look at our
history and our behavior and why we do
things and why we don’t do things I mean
some of us right now are scared to be a
part of things that don’t look like what
they used to be let me help you you used
to be on a praise and worship team and
now you see these young people up here
jumping around and doing all this other
stuff and you could be an asset that’s
the praising worship team y’all heard
them they say AHA yes but you can be an
asset but somebody told you along the
way that your voice sounded a little
funny and so instead of working on it
and coming to another level and being
everything that you could be you just
stopped damaged and
today I want you to understand like
mephibosheth that God’s goal for your
life is to restore every damaged area of
your life he does not want you to die
damaged I want you to hear me say that
again when I was when I was studying and
I was praying God said Michael Michael I
want my people to know that it is not my
goal for them to die damaged whatever
area does your anger he said I don’t
want you to die damaged angry every time
something doesn’t go your way you you
roar up and you become the incredible
how many people have an Incredible Hulk
yeah I come if it’s the right situation
the right thing then you turn into
somebody that the what I call it uh
mister uh dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde I mean
you just erupt other people have the
inverse when they get discouraged they
go and become a hermit crab
they isolate how many people when
something doesn’t go your way you
isolate come on let’s be honest like
damaged and God saying to every single
one of us no matter if I’ve named your
situation or not God said I don’t want
you to die damaged so what do we have to
do like mephibosheth when God comes to
us when the King calls and when we get
in front of him we have to submit to him
we got a bow and then the Kings gonna
restore us he was stored Mephibosheth
after years of being in a place called
lo debar a place of nothing
there’s years where nothing happened and
one day God restored everything back to
him I came to tell everybody today that
it is God if you don’t remember anything
else that I say I want you to know that
God’s plan for your life is restoration
more and better than what was even if
it’s broken now and we see that in
Mephibosheth life he goes up and he gets
seated at the Kings table and that boy
went from eating ramen noodles to having
his choice of whatever he wanted and the
beautiful thing about Mephibosheth
life he was damaged in his legs that’s
what the Bible tells us when he pulled
up a seat at the Kings table his damaged
area was what covered it was covered
it’s covered see this is what somebody
yelled healed and I’m glad you did that
because healing is a process covered is
instant so I can still be healing but
God’s got me see what we want to do is I
don’t feel any pain no more or it
doesn’t affect me or if I fully
forgiving them no no no we’re gonna walk
out your deliverance but we’re gonna
keep working on that but if you keep
reminding everybody you’re hurt
then you uncover yourself but in the
grace that I’ve given you I’ve covered
you and what we have to do is agree with
the grace of God on our life and not the
situation we’re still healing from
because once you receive the grace the
unmerited undeserved unearned favor of
God and some of you looking at me like I
don’t understand Pass I’m like I’m
trying to tell you right now there are
things that you are holding on to that
God has said just let it go because I’ve
already covered that I’ve already let go
of that I’ve already changed the
trajectory of your future but you’re
holding on to something and I’m pulling
you this way and you won’t let it go so
you’re stuck because my grace is pulling
you forward but your will is keeping you
back and got a sing let it go because if
you let me do the restoration it’ll be
more than you’ve ever experienced
Mephibosheth again went from eating
ramen noodles to having his choice he
had land that that the king ordered a
guy named zipper and all 35 of his
servants to to work for him this man he
literally went from not having anything
to having it done for him there are
things that God wants to place the Bible
tells us that there is you will live in
houses you didn’t build you you’ll have
land that you get in farm you didn’t
tell this
what restoration looks like God gives
you and placing you in areas that you
don’t deserve but it’s because of his
goodness and his favor on your life that
he says yeah you’re my child you
received me you accepted me here you go
you see there’s nothing my daughter
Isabella does to deserve what I do for
her it’s because she’s mine and we don’t
look at God like that
we look at him like we have to earn
every single thing that he does for us
oh I know why I got that blessing it’s
cuz I gave that five dollars in that
offering no boo-boo that five dollars or
that night he’s trying to make you more
like him he’s trying to give you the
character and the discipline to do the
right things but do you really think you
deserved what God gave you do you really
think you deserved another chance at the
marriage after you screwed it up do you
really think that you did no but we
serve a good god that looks past all of
our faults and he sees our needs and he
says I can’t even do this because of
what they did but I can do it cuz
they’re mine and I want you to hear me
if you don’t hear anything else cuz
they’re these people going through this
damage good series and getting healed I
want you to hear me say this it’s not
going to be by works it’s not gonna be
by works like okay now I’m serving and
now I’m read my Bible 50 minutes a day
and now I’m no I’m serious because we
think that somehow we want all of those
things but if the motivation is wrong
the outcome is going to be wrong god I
want you to know like Mephibosheth that
your damaged area did not disqualify you
to the king and he’s still looking to do
good for you and he still wants more for
you so last week then we saw this wack
guy come into the picture and his name
was zipper if you could just put a
picture a mental picture up for
everybody to see what I feel like zipper
looks like this is what I don’t know why
you know he fights a little kids and
stuff you know what I’m saying I I just
feel like this is what zipper looks like
to me
Yala really realized real quick that I’m
just crazy okay
but I want to paint this picture so
mephibosheth is getting restored from
everything that was stolen from him
zipper comes along and it’s supposed to
be serving with him be careful that
everybody that’s around you that God
places around you to work with you it’s
not always for you you will be naive to
think that and mephibosheth was so
excited just to be restored he’s not
even looking
you ain’t even looking at who’s taking
care of his stuff you know there could
have been I know there was at least one
sign that that that this guy’s Eber
wasn’t really out for the best
but he’s like you know what this is the
best thing I’ve ever had just keep doing
it keep restoring he’s he’s he’s farming
the land his sons are working he he’s
doing all this other stuff in one day I
told you last week David’s family he’s
the king at the time he has a problem
his sons are crazy his sons beginning to
fight one of the sons kills the other
son he sends his son away and then the
son come back then he is mad and was
like I’m about to take over dad’s
throwing him and kill him I bit I put
you I put that on Erik died and then
they get ready to go and kill King David
in the palace I’m just trying to catch
you up because I’m gonna give you some
damage control principles what ends up
happening in this story is that David
runs from the kingdom and when
Mephibosheth who’s been restored by God
been restored by the King hears that
they’re they’re leaving the palace he
tells zipper hey bro hey my source is
moving the the person who restored me
the one who is my sustainer the one who
is who is the one who brought me from a
dark place to this place he’s moving so
I need to move too and let me stop there
because we could
but let me just say if God ever moves
you need to move to like like you’ve got
if God’s doing something new and you’re
stuck in the way he was doing it you
need to move and in Mephibosheth knowing
that the only reason he’s in the place
he’s in now is because of his right
relationship with the king he was like
hey get the donkeys bro get get a
backpack we we oughtta hear if the King
goes we go
but zippers little hating self he goes
and I know he’s just thinking cuz he’s
just a hater and he’s like man the fool
can’t move by himself anyway he’s still
damaged in some areas let me take
advantage of what used to him
let me take advantage hear me hear what
I’m saying let me take advantage and
bring back to his memory his damaged
area cuz up into this point everything’s
good because he can get carried anywhere
he can move anywhere he needs to he has
all the resource he’s not worried about
food he’s not worried about housing he’s
almost forgot that he’s damaged and then
somebody with the wrong motive comes in
to try to take advantage of his damaged
area again I’m supposed to be working
for him but I ain’t he can’t move
without me he wanted a piggyback ride
here and get one and he takes an
opportunity that was a complete normal
thing and he damages mephibosheth again
I said it last week but it’s worth being
said again even when you’re healed in a
damaged area it has the opportunity to
be damaged again and if you don’t know
that you’re playing yourself
you you I’m out of that I’m free from
lust I am free I am free no I don’t look
at women that’s my sister hey sister hey
sister hey sister
y’all know what I’m saying we try to get
this thing that if it’s been healed it
could never get that’s why you have to
have accountability that’s why you got
to have if it was me I was just thinking
about this I think about the Bible if it
was me and I was Mephibosheth I would
have called my boy a maker um that was
down in lo debar see cuz there was a guy
that allowed mephibosheth to stay with
him all those years while he was damaged
I would have caught hey King could y’all
go get my boy and bring him to be with
with me because he cared for me when I
was still damaged he was around in my
struggle and I need some accountability
in this new space that I’m in just
because you get elevated doesn’t mean
that you don’t need protection just cuz
you’ve been better than you’ve ever been
doesn’t mean you don’t need to be
accountable to somebody just because
you’re the leader now do you know as the
past official I’ve people I’m
accountable to so I get up here and say
something crazy
somebody can boo-boo-boo-boo-boo Mike is
up here acting a fool could you please
get up why because as god takes me up as
the elevator keeps going up i need
accountability how will you be in the
position that God has you in and not
have people around see cuz
accountability is not just to correct
its to protect see cuz if maker was
there but do who was with me all the
time he would have salt like um bro
zipper is getting lost with our donkeys
bro and and he would have done something
so what are you saying Pastor Mike when
you know you’ve been damaged never walk
alone’ this ain’t even a point but I
feel the Holy Spirit shifting well when
you’ve been damaged in the area don’t
walk alone in that area if you know you
deal with pride don’t be prideful and
not tell nobody
you need a hey this is what I struggle
with hey this is why I’m at hey this is
still my problem I’ve trouble getting
around sometimes could you just be
around so if I ever need to get around
could you help me
that’s what hey I have trouble around
midnight I start thinking wrong thoughts
in my head and I go to website I started
off looking at some Yeezys but I ended
up with nessam mmm and so a double D ZZZ
and I just don’t it just came to my head
I’m sorry but but hear me but hear me if
you’re not that real with somebody if
you’re not that humble open and
transparent with somebody hey this guy
is coming around and I feel myself
getting weak around him we want to say
so I’ll just messed up I just messed up
I was with you when you took the text
message and you didn’t say anything I’m
just saying you have problems stealing
money you probably shouldn’t have any
accounts with you just on them because
if you’re damaging you don’t have
accountability in that area it is more
susceptible to be damaged again and
that’s what happened to mephibosheth
restored healed more than he’s ever had
now the people who were supposed to be
around him that watch this watch this
watch is the beautiful thing about
accountability Thank You Holy Spirit
accountability is solicited not assigned
the king assigned zipper to serve him
but he still needed to go find somebody
he trusted to be accountable to cuz
you’ll never be accountable to somebody
you don’t trust you will never be
accountable that’s why all these people
going around struggling yes him how you
doing I’m good I’m good and Hale is
breaking loose in your life but the
reason you didn’t tell them the real
deal cuz you don’t trust them and the
reason you don’t trust them is because
you didn’t bring them into the circle
and the reason you didn’t bring them
into the circles you think they were
gonna judge you because you’re damaged
in an area but when you know everybody’s
damaged it’s easier to bring people in
and say hey I’m not telling everybody
this but I need you I need you I think
about my boy John who is just up here
doing transition me and him are
accountable to each other there have
been times when when when that brothers
called me and being like Mike I just
need to confess some stuff that’s him
and he was like my wife don’t know this
yet but nobody else knows it but I need
to tell you because I know if I let this
cancer sit it’s not just going to be
where I could cut it out it’s going to
spread to a place where I’m gonna have
to get chemo around my whole life and
and and because of that trust I’ve been
able to help him be um literally get out
of situations that would have led to his
destruction the same thing I’m saying
with you I’m not telling you to go
around and get 50 people to have a
community meeting every night about
everything you do wrong like this is me
my name is John and I am a sinner like
don’t do that Oh what I am saying is if
mephibosheth would have had real
accountability he wouldn’t have got
played a second time if he had true
friends around him he wouldn’t have been
able to be damaged again and many of us
are damaged because we’re alone and God
just wanted to switch everything up just
for a minute and let you know that
walking alone was never his plan for
your life that’s why he created Eve in
the garden he said it is not good for
you to be alone that’s why sent the
disciples out how many by how many too
much he said none of y’all by yourselves
is gonna do this right so I’m
encouraging you to not get played like
mephibosheth cuz he was damaged again
Zipit and gone off and met King David
and said King haha it’s your boys ever
I’m here I brought all these camera
camels and I mean donkeys I brought this
bread for the people to eat I brought
this wine for everybody to drink and the
first thing the King said he didn’t even
acknowledge zipa he said where’s your
master
where’s Mephibosheth and then he had to
lie and then he had to slander and I
want us to pick this thing up right here
in second samuel chapter 19
and I want you to see it chapter 19
verse 17 because what happened is zipper
lied on on mephibosheth and the king got
frustrated and said well cool everything
I gave to him everything I’ll restored
to him I’m now giving it to you that
messed me up when I read it the first
time cuz I was like hold on now how is
this liar
this thief this hater getting elevated
and he’s wrong
I mean I wrestle with to see some of us
we read the Bible but I wrestle with the
Bible like I cuz if you don’t make sense
I’m like God you have to give me some
revelation cuz if you represent the king
and you a great king and you a good good
father and all this other stuff and now
the hater gets away and you give him all
my stuff but you don’t know I’m in a
broken place and I’m damaging he left me
and I was really trying to do the right
thing but he’s doing the wrong thing and
then you rewarding him God told me so
clearly he said the reason he rewarded
Zipporah was to test Mephibosheth heart
your hater is a part of your growth see
this was never about zipper cuz you reap
what you sow this was about Mephibosheth
God wanted to make sure that his heart
was still in the right place and he
would use somebody that shouldn’t have
been elevated to see cuz you will never
see what’s in your heart till you’re
done wrong I’m just telling you do do
something do something to somebody’s
kids let somebody do something to your
kids and then the prince will be like
well that’s just what happens
that’s just what happens i’ma tell you
what happened
get the baby bring about three or five
like you yall already know in your
minivan scope it is that they’re telling
y’all all the kids going when I say John
I’m a run up you jump out knock them
I’ll meet you at the end y’all triflin
[Applause]
on site you know sick but what I’m
saying is adversity trial injustice it
will expose your heart really quick and
the reason zipper got this was not about
silver it was about Mephibosheth and so
now we pick up
King David gnam they win the victory
they’re headed back to the palace to
rule and Absalon is dead his son and now
this is where we pick up in second
samuel chapter 19 verse 17 all these
people are coming now to help the king
and all his family and all his
concubines get back to the city and it
says there were a thousand Benjamites
verse 17 along with zebra the steward of
Saul’s household and his 15 sons in 20
servants the 35 people that were
supposed to be loyal to Mephibosheth
they rushed to the Jordan where the king
was they took the king and his household
over and did whatever they wish I can
just see them with their coats and just
oh king please don’t let your royal feet
be be bothered by the water they’re just
in here trying to brown-nose their way
because when you don’t deserve a
position you have to work your way to
keep the position y’all see what it says
at the inner it says they the household
all of them went over to do whatever he
wished when you get into a spot that’s
yours you can rest in it jump down to
verse 24 says Mephibosheth
Sol’s grandson also went down to meet
the king now this trips me out see this
how I read the Bible how do you get
there how the guy that was supposed to
help him plate him he’s been literally
sitting at the same spot and now it’s
saying that Mephibosheth come down to
the Jordan to meet the king this is what
see you gotta look past what it says and
see what God is trying to say there’s
always a ram in the bush if they left
your life God will send somebody else if
they didn’t work out God will send if
that business didn’t work and he said
you’d be a CEO he’ll send somebody else
it doesn’t even give their name who they
are cuz they don’t need credit God will
use people to get you to the place
you’re supposed to be at I want you to
see this so clearly instead mephibosheth
saw the damaged guy the broken guy it
says he also went down to meet the king
but look at his condition he had not
taken care of his feet trimmed his
mustache or washed his clothes from the
day the King left until the day he
returns safely
that was a funky meeting
but I want to give you my first point
right here this is a damage control
principle this is the thing that will
help you if you’ve been hurt before that
if a damaging situation is trying to
come back then it won’t hurt you the
same way cuz you’re gonna know now
you’re gonna be able to say y’all know
what damage control is right like it’s
when your wife asks you how do I look in
this dress and you’re not really paying
attention anybody look cool
and then she said cool and then men
automatically have this switch that goes
on – damage control we just start seeing
whatever needs to be said I mean cool
when I said cool I meant like a Bahamas
breeze and 72 degrees so that you know
what I’m saying
because we don’t we don’t want them
problems it’s it’s trying to contain the
damage that could be done and what I’m
saying is things are gonna come in your
life to try to damage you again but
these principle these four principles
I’m going to give you that we learn from
a fibia chefs like it’s going to give
you the opportunity to control some of
those areas that could destroy things
you’re gonna be like I know what’s
happening the first one that you have to
realize is you have to stay faithful to
the king through your trial
this is the first damage control
principle that Mephibosheth gives us the
reason he does some of y’all like why
didn’t he take a bath
why didn’t he shave why didn’t he clip
them toenails it’s because since he
could not go he had to show a sign that
he was still faithful to the king this
was his sign that no matter what happens
to me I need you to know that I’m gonna
be faithful to trust you in this
horrible season and see many of us when
we go through a trial we become
unfaithful to the king just honestly it
didn’t go the way that we wanted to go
we go out and find fun ourselves we go
back to the club we go hang out with the
person we was not supposed to we stop
coming to church we stop doing those
things and and the thing that you have
to understand is yeah you’ll be damaged
but don’t stop being faithful to
the king just cuz you got damaged again
he got played but he stayed faithful he
said I’m going to consecrate myself I’m
going to sacrifice something so that the
King knows that whenever we get back in
right relationship
I stayed faithful what does that look
like I’m gonna parallel this with the
situation in my life a few years back I
had the most horrible business
transaction ever happened in my life and
what ended up happening is through a
series of events we went through a
situation trying to build a home the
contracts were bad stuff started
happening our house didn’t get finished
all this other stuff happened and I was
still coming here I was preaching I was
I was doing all kinds of stuff not
trying not to let it come I was mad I
was pissed I was frustrated I I would I
would pray for people and they’d have
turn around and pray for myself cuz I
was like Lord why not I’m just being
real okay
but in that season I fasted every
Wednesday I mean when I say every
Wednesday I fasted every one it was the
hardest season of my life but I said God
I’m gonna do something too even in a
place where I don’t understand I’m
serving you I’m praying for people we
run in internships I’m doing all it why
is this have out and gave I don’t I
don’t soon see I don’t done all of this
and it looks like you’re nowhere to be
found but I know if I unplug from being
faithful to you even when I don’t hear
you even when I don’t see you even when
it feels like you’ve left me that’s just
gonna be bad for me so every Wednesday I
push away my plate and I wouldn’t be I
wouldn’t eat and I’d pray and some of
those prayers were hard y’all I mean God
Hey
thank you thank you for breath
thank you for life
thank you for my wife yeah thank you for
my wife lord thank you for my my
daughter lord you know we had to sleep
in this house and it’s too cold this
winter and we don’t have any heat in our
home and we just brought our baby home
yeah no I gave the money to get heat and
they didn’t put a heating system in so
now it’s winter and my firstborn is
covered up and we’re wearing full winter
clothes to bed and I just feel like
you’ve left me when I feel I feel like I
don’t know if I can go minister to
people this Sunday and I just need you
to give me grace to do it one more time
I do love you but I don’t feel you
amen now and you know what God does when
he’s not talking you’re in a test no
good teacher talks during the test they
they giving you everything you needed
for this and now I’m going through what
I got to go through but he’s not talking
cuz it’s a test
that’s what Mephibosheth was going
through he wasn’t up places alone and he
felt like God wasn’t talking because it
was not about Zambo remember it was
about my faith it was a test to see if
he would stay faithful when he didn’t
feel like anything was happening on his
behalf you may be in here today and you
like I haven’t heard god I come to this
church everybody act like he’s moving
where he at them like ah I don’t
understand I don’t understand it it
seems like everybody else’s marriage is
happy it’s in my everybody else’s kids
is doing good and getting a’s at school
junior at junior objects come on like it
you just I’m just serious because it
just looks like nothing’s lining up all
my other friends are getting married and
all my other friends getting houses and
all my other friends and I’m just
sitting out here and God says you’re in
a test I came to tell you Shh be quiet
steel yourself and remember the past
seasons that he’s taking you through cuz
he’s trying to allow you to pass the
test of right now I know it’s
uncomfortable I know it doesn’t feel
good I know it feels like you were not
prepared for this but it’s in you and if
you use what’s already been given to you
you’re gonna pass this test and so
that’s what Mephibosheth did his way of
passing the test was showing God that he
would not give up on him so he didn’t
shave he didn’t wash his clothes he did
he didn’t shave he didn’t clip his
toenails cuz he wanted whenever the
teacher came back
see I did this and I passed it won’t be
because I walked away it won’t because I
brought extra problems into my life by
going back to drinking and going back to
alcohol and going back to gossip if
that’s not what have I stayed faithful
even when I didn’t feel you I kept
coming to church when I felt like
everybody was looking at me
I kept serving when everybody was out to
look at leave differently and my damaged
air I kept on so god it will not be
because I quit because your word says
that the righteous man falls seven times
but he gets back up again and so after
I’ve done all to stand I must stand and
some of you need to get that resolved
because you’re in the fight of your life
and you want to run and god says stay
faithful to me even when you don’t feel
me some of you are believing God for
healing right now I feel the Spirit of
God and the doctor’s report keeps coming
back bad and God’s just trying to see is
your confession gonna change I’m healed
well mr. Todd this is not looking good
I’m healed well we ran the tests we said
we were gonna run we did the 6-week
biopsy and it looks exactly worse than
it did before we came in here I mean
he’s just trying to work in you the
stamina to stay faithful even in the
trial my marriage is healed uh I want a
divorce
my marriage is restored I’m leaving you
okay Bob I’ll be there where are you
gonna because I’m coming with you I God
is waiting for somebody to stay faithful
through the trial and mephibosheth
stayed faithful through the trial second
thing verse 27 it says my lord the king
is like an angel of
God so do whatever you wish this is what
happens he comes before the king and he
said why why why’d you leave me he said
this dude lied on me he slandered my
name he betrayed me he said but I
haven’t shaved I haven’t done anything
look at me I’m in a broken state right
now because I’ve been waiting for you to
come back and speak to me and he said
but you know what I’m not even worthy of
all of this you can do whatever you wish
this is the second point I want to give
you to have damage control you need to
trust the king with the outcome see
mephibosheth was so confident in his
relationship with God that even though
he was in a trial even though he was in
a bad situation he didn’t go to
explaining everything that happened and
trying to build the case against zipper
I love this cuz when you read this whole
narrative that I can’t go into but I
wish we had like two hours so I could
just do it he never blamed zipper he
never made it about him he just said my
man betrayed me he slandered my name if
that was me I would have built a case
February 26 you know what I’m saying I
would I would have I would have built
that case so hard and just said and it
is his fault and he is guilty restart to
me he didn’t do that cuz he knew right
relationship with the King would restore
everything that he needed he said so I
trust you do whatever you wish cuz you
know better you know why that person
left my life you know how you took me
off that job you know why you have me at
this church you know better some of us
just need that needs to be our prayer
life from now on
God you know better this is what I want
but you know better there’s a reason I
didn’t finish school at the time I was
supposed to there’s a reason that you
took me through this trial because you
know better God says in Jeremiah 29:11
that I have plans for you plans to
prosper you not to harm you to give you
a hope in the future what is he trying
to say I know better and so when you
know God knows better
you can be confident in trusting that
all things are really working together
for your good proverbs 3:5 my life
scripture trust in the Lord with all
your heart this is the greatest part for
me and lean not to your own because in
my understanding I would have done this
completely different I mean all the way
back from the garden I would have just
killed Adam and even started over with
Abram a meeting like you don’t say like
I would have started over but God said
my ways are not your ways my thoughts
are higher than you so when you trust in
the Lord with all your heart you have to
divorce your own understanding when you
really trust God you have it is the
prerequisite to divorce what makes sense
to you
that’s why many people go through
college and get these degrees and then
God have you worked in a whole nother
field and you know what he said because
when you really started trusting me he
said I had to cut your understanding and
I have to do it to a place where you can
trust me and that’s what Mephibosheth
did he trusted the king with the outcome
today God wants you to trust him
third thing mephibosheth was grateful to
the King for what he already had verse
28 says all my grandfather’s descendants
deserve nothing but death from my lord
the king but you gave your servant a
place among those who eat at your table
so what right do I have to make anymore
appeals to the king this man in his
damaged state was so aware of how good
the king was still to him and many times
we miss that when we go through a bad
situation we forget how far and how good
god has been to us I mean if you really
think about the last 10 years of your
life and how God delivered you he’s
changing you he’s renewing you your
marriage was on the brink it was
over you had made the decision your mind
was made up to commit suicide and God
literally has brought you but he has
restored you and then we get into one
thing my Jack was short God is a tithe I
did what you said and now look and I
know God if I he’s just like Lord Jesus
or maybe Lord me like I mean just it’s
like they haven’t learned yet like
anything I do to make it feel a little
uncomfortable because I’m trying to make
their character more like me they didn’t
get it yet
I am I purposely told them to give that
seed that made them $30 short and they
bills so I could see what they would do
at the last moment you know they don’t
even know I’ve already discounted they
hold cell phone bill for the next month
but they just won’t trust me in this
three hours it’s never what it looks
like it’s all about God trying to make
you look like him and so when damaged
situations come into our life again I’m
making a conscious effort effort to stop
and think about how good God’s been to
me
now I mean just stop just that I don’t
stop talking to God thank you
mmm this is this sucks it sucks yeah
this is a big one but man I I didn’t I
don’t even qualify to be a part of this
decision right now God you’ve been so
faith God I thank you that me and my
wife made it six years marry I mean this
is argument I mean this look like it’s
gonna be it it’s gonna be over at six
but God thank you cuz I know we I
remember thinking we wasn’t gonna make
it – and we’re here at 6:00 God thank
you for providing this home we don’t
have the money to read renovate it but
God I just think I think if you stop and
think how good God’s already I know I’m
dealing with this disease but the one
they gave me before this that they said
was gonna kill me huh I’m still
breathing it changes your perspective on
what’s happening when you get thankful
for what God’s already done yeah we need
more business but God we got a deal God
we do need God we do need my children do
need better great thing you need to do
better but father I thank you that our
relationship is kind of somewhat halfway
getting a little better I mean sometimes
you have to reach for gratefulness but
when you reach for it
gratitude fills up areas in your heart
that will give you the fuel to continue
to move forward and that’s what
mephibosheth did he said you know what
King cool I ain’t got now I have my
other home he bring me up here to just
tell you what happened but I know all my
family deserve death anyway when my
grandfather and father died I should
have died – and you didn’t just let me
live
but you restored me so at this point I
know what I deserve so you know what is
cool because you’ve already done so much
for me it doesn’t even matter what
happens out of this situation see what
does it look like when we get to the
point when we’re in a damaged situation
where you say God you done so much to me
I really would like you to come through
but it don’t even matter I’m not even
supposed to be here but you have been
faithful you have been good you have
restored me once and so he said Who am I
to even ask the king or make any more
Appeals I trust you and you already been
good so what do you do now last point in
the words I’m just gonna read the
scripture first verse 29
now let’s trip me out said the king said
to him after he said all of this stuff
why say more I ordered you zipper the
hater the one who has caused all of this
to be in control of this situation and
now you divide the land now this messed
me up this is me wrestling again with
Scripture coz mephibosheth was done
wrong but zipper gets to divide it now
it was my land in the first place but
when I you know you have to restore and
do everything right you’ll give the
hater the upper hand to be the one to
divide the land first off why are we
dividing the land it was all mine and he
came in lied we’ve we got that slandered
my name made up stuff and he still walks
away with half of my stuff he walks away
with some of my friends they walked away
with the with the business proposal I
made I want to recall back to your
attention that the trial and the hater
is never about them it’s all about your
heart and this is where I would have
messed it all up
like me personally I’m like okay King
haha great mighty king that’s how you
gonna do this I don’t think you heard me
I said he came light on me took my
donkeys you see and then he came in like
and he didn’t even defend it look what
he says he said Mephibosheth said to the
king let him take everything now that my
lord the king has returned home safely
now this is the difference between
immaturity and maturity because
immaturity is worried about the stuff
maturity is worried about the source of
the stuff you missed it
immaturity worries about well they got
the promotion and they got the girl and
and they got the stuff Mephibosheth said
forget all that I am back in right
relationship with the one who gave it to
me in the first place
so if I have right relationship with the
king
what is the land that zipper has I am
back with the restorer so anything I
need has the potential to be restored
and I came to tell many of us we need to
take a cue from Mephibosheth and the
great psalmist Elsa and we need to let
it go oh yes she is a psalmist to our
generation if you didn’t know see many
of us are holding on to things and
forfeiting our right relationship with
the restorer
but Mephibosheth knew as long see this
is the thing the hater wasn’t coming
back I love it
Thank You Holy Spirit you got to see
that he got the land but he lost his job
there’s no way after Moffatt you
remember what his job description what
you work for Mephibosheth for the rest
of your life you and all your sons as
long as he lived
you work for at the moment he got his
land that’s all he would ever get he
just cut off the inheritance for his
children’s children you reap what you
sow there’s no way my favorite chef
would bring him back bro you thought you
had me man get out of here
I bet you will never set foot on this
land again he lost his job he lost a
legacy and he lost his credibility so
anybody in the whole kingdom if they
heard his name it was synonymous with
what he did the Mephibosheth not that he
was a servant of the king or anything
this is what I’m saying
God’s got your haters stop stop worrying
about who doesn’t like you and who’s not
for you and who didn’t pick you and who
keeps overlooking them just just let
that go see Mephibosheth was focused on
the king because he knew the king just
got all his territory back he knows I
didn’t lie I stayed faithful to him I
stand the test of time he gave me he
started me back out with half of what I
had catch the revelation
sometimes when you’re damaged God won’t
start you back where you were
he’ll start you back with half of what
you had and see how you would steward
over it but you can’t think of it as a
loss because you have right relationship
with the king and this is this is what I
felt as I close this morning this is
what I felt that mephibosheth had in his
mind
I’m not going trip and I’m gonna let
that unforgiveness I’m gonna let it go
I’m gonna let the pain I’m gonna let the
right to talk about this to other people
I’m gonna let it go and you may be in
here and you’re saying well you don’t
know what they did to me pass the mic
and I’m damaged because this and I was
free from that and then they did it
again you need to what let it go let it
go everybody just an act of faith just
hold something right here and then just
drop it let it go see cuz if you do that
I believe this was what God gave
everybody in this place is giving
everybody in this place and this is what
Mephibosheth thought if the King did it
before
he can do it again