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tonight
to be honest really it’s just a dream
come true there’s two ways to play these
moments you know when uh people that you
really look up to and revere or in your
presence you can try to act cool
or you can just have a fan girl moment
and be like oh my goodness priscilla
shire is here
[Applause]
not everybody knows pastor taylor in our
story but we did not have a plan to
plant a church this is something
that god kept pushing us towards and
pushing us towards and although this was
not on our plan it’s been evident that
the hand of god has been on it just
because we were obedient
but i will tell you this before i ever
knew i was going to plant a church
there’s just people that i had on my
mind that said if i ever had a church
i promise you i would bring them in
and priscilla shire is one of those
people
[Music]
[Applause]
i can tell you how she’s a best-selling
author i can tell you how she’s an
actress i could tell you how she’s an
international global speaker i could
tell you how she didn’t fly in she drove
in she lives here in the great country
of texas i
[Applause]
tell you how she’s incredible wife
an amazing mom her sons are here two of
her sons are here and
even her family is here her brother and
her sister anthony and crystal they’re
here
just so honor your entire family
seriously like some people have the
kennedys we have the evans if you lived
here in dallas
we love your family
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i’m just so thankful that she would come
to our baby church
and bring the word of the lord i want
you to get your heart expected i want
you to be ready
not just blown away
by her voice but her gift by how astute
she is and preaching the word of god
especially in this last season i’ve been
blown away
by watching how resilient she’s been
to fight a battle
it’s one thing to see somebody’s
ministry is another thing to see when
they’re going through pain
and they still minister even in their
pain
they can go through the fire and not
smell like smoke and give all of us hope
the way they keep standing
and i’ve watched priscilla and her
entire family do that you
are in
for a treat i want you to treat her like
we do at the 6pm be leaned in shout her
down i want her to come back
okay y’all
so without any further ado please put
your hands together and help me thank
god for the gift of priscilla
sean
come on social fam you can do better
than that
queen
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[Applause]
hi family
you all good
i’m excited to be at social dallas
tonight for many reasons but one of them
is that i love the word of god
and i’m excited to share with you a word
from the scriptures tonight so do i pray
for you before you sit down what do
y’all do with this church i’ll just
stand up the whole message
lord i thank you for your word i thank
you that it is living and active and
sharper than any two-edged sword lord i
thank you that in these next few moments
we are going to hear a word straight
from the mouth of god
father we did not come to see each other
we came to see you so i’m asking you to
open up the windows of heaven and come
down here and see about us father
we need to hear from you lord speak to
us your sons and your daughters we are
listening
in jesus mighty name everybody agreed
with me and said amen
amen
amen you may take your seats it’s a
privilege
to be with you tonight and to have an
opportunity to share uh god’s word with
you as i mentioned uh it is my joy
to share god’s word
it is the living breathing word of god
the scriptures you know that right
it’s not just a book with ink on a page
i’m telling you it’s alive
that every single time we come to the
pages of scripture we ought to expect to
feel the warm breath of god brushing
across our cheeks as he speaks a present
word over every single one of our lives
so i’m expecting that
tonight
i want to tell you before i dive into
this little little piece of scripture
that i want to share with you
i want to tell you that i’m grateful to
be here
because as pastor robert mentioned this
is my home dallas fort worth born and
raised i’ve been here my whole life
and i’m grateful to be able to minister
in the city that is my home
and i’m grateful to be at this church
i’ve snuck in before and just sort of
been here been a part of church been
ministered to
by your church by your pastor and his
wife and i want to say this just before
i jump in
i want you all to know
that every church
doesn’t have leadership
that actually has integrity
unfortunately it’s a rarity
to find churches with leaders that are
the same when the lights are off
as when the lights are on
and you ought to be grateful
that the lord has situated you in a
church with people that actually love
jesus
[Applause]
it’s a good thing
it was about five years ago
that and i’ve mentioned this to pastor
roberts about five years ago that my
husband
drove my three sons
to a conference in austin i didn’t go
with him they drove into austin
and my boys know
many things about me they know i’m
praying for them all the time they don’t
know the details of all that i pray all
the time
but one of the things that i’m praying
constantly for my sons is that the lord
would
cause the trajectory of their path to
intersect with key people that they
don’t even know in the moment are going
to shift the trajectory of their
perspective of their pursuits of their
ambitions of their choices
and i just pray that the lord would line
stuff up so they happen to be in the
presence of greatness when they don’t
even know it and about five years ago
at that conference they ended up at a
lunch table my boys and i heard through
the grapevine through a few people that
they were sitting right across the table
from pastor robert madue
and here’s what i need you to know
pastor and taylor
i need you to know that there are people
praying prayers that you guys are the
answer to
there are people right now praying
prayers
and you’re the answer
there are people that have been praying
for a social dallas
and you’ve answered peop there are
people’s grandmamas that have been
praying that some folks would end up in
the house of god on this sunday night
and i want to encourage you to just stay
faithful
because if you’ll stay faithful if
you’ll keep walking the course that the
lord sets out in front of you not only
in ministry but in your faithfulness to
each other in marriage and in the
raising of those beautiful babies that
the lord has given you i’m telling you
that you will continue to be the answer
to people’s prayers that you don’t even
know they pray in
so lord i speak blessing over this
pastor and his wife i speak blessing
over this leadership team i speak
blessing over this church father i pray
that the holy spirit would rain down in
this church so that the entire city is
shifted
as a result of social dallas being in
this city father i’m asking you that the
whole
city would be transformed because of
what you do in this house thank you for
letting this house be the answer to
people’s prayers
in jesus name i pray amen amen
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so i have three
siblings there are four of us two of my
siblings are here my older sister
crystal
and then it’s me
then anthony we call him nene
and then jonathan we call him john john
john john’s the youngest of the bunch
he’s really the biggest of the bunch but
he’s the baby boy
and john john
is married to kanika
they have five children together
their oldest child is the same age as my
youngest child they’re both 13 now
kelsey is her name
kelsey is a
precocious sassy little thing
she’s a whole lot of fun to watch so
much personality and we saw it when she
was about one two years old we already
saw that personality coming out
jonathan was sharing with me a story of
something that happened when kelsey was
about two and he started to notice all
this personality
at two years old she went over into the
kitchen
to the big box in the kitchen that had
the food in it the refrigerator she
pointed at it and said eat
he picked his little baby girl up and he
put her at the kitchen table in the
chair where she would be able to get the
food she was asking for
in her little two-year-old mind though
she’s just far removed from the big box
that has the food in it
so she begins to throw a temper tantrum
she kicks her feet she wiggles her way
out of the chair she stomps her little
sassy self back over to the big box that
has the food in it she points at it and
says eat
he commences to pick her up take her
back over to the chair where he wants
her to be situated he puts her there she
commences to throw an entire temper
tantrum kicks her little feet wiggles
her way out of the chair marches herself
back over to the big box with the food
in it and says eat he picks her up he
takes her back over to the chair puts
her in the chair she wiggles herself out
of the chair stomps herself back across
the kitchen and says eat this went on
over and over and over again again and
as he’s reliving the thing telling me
the story i can just see his frustration
mounting
as he told me how patient he had to try
to be with this girl as he tried to get
her to see and understand that he’s her
father and he loves her and he’s only
trying to put her in the place that is
the best place for her to be to receive
what it is she’s asking him for
so i’m giggling and i’m laughing
thinking about little kelsey doing this
because he’s telling me the story i mean
i am falling out laughing i don’t know
if you’ve ever been in a situation where
you are laughing about something and as
you laugh mid-giggle the holy spirit
stops you in your tracks and says don’t
laugh too long or too hard
because priscilla that sounds just like
my relationship with you
that i keep trying to put you in a place
in a relationship in an opportunity i
keep trying to situate you in a place or
a position and in your little uh in your
little personality priscilla you
oftentimes will try to wiggle your way
out of the places that i’m trying to put
you in
because it doesn’t feel comfortable or
convenient to you it doesn’t make sense
to you and so oftentimes priscilla you
just like little kelsey will ignore me
turn your back on me try to circumvent
me go the opposite direction and
priscilla unlike your brother who did a
good job but his patience began to wear
thin after the fifth or the sixth or the
seventh time priscilla the good news
about my relationship with you is that
my grace is sufficient for even you
and i don’t know if any of you have ever
needed a second chance
a third chance
i don’t know if there’s anybody in the
house other than me that’s ever needed a
20th chance
his grace
is sufficient for you
that you do not have i don’t have the
capacity to wear god out
you not that powerful
somebody needs to be encouraged tonight
and i drove over from the south side of
town just to encourage somebody that it
doesn’t matter how many times you’ve
needed a redo how many times you’ve
needed to to to backstep just a little
bit and get the forgiveness and the
grace of god i came just to remind you
that god’s got enough patience for even
you
that he doesn’t need
a good nap before he can handle what’s
going on in your life
we don’t have the capacity to wear god
out
i want to talk to you for just a few
moments about the patience of god the
reason why i want to talk to you about
the patience of god is because if you
don’t have a full revelation of the
greatness the vastness the boundlessness
of god’s patience
then you will tiptoe walk on eggshells
in your relationship with god because
you’ll constantly be worried that if i
do one more thing that if i have one
more misstep that if i mishear him that
i’d if i make another mistake this will
be the time that he puts me on the shelf
and he can’t use me anymore and i can’t
participate in kingdom purposes the
enemy wants you too afraid to experience
the abundant life that he’s called you
to
so he wants us constantly walking on
eggshells worried and i came to tell you
that god is not mad at you
i don’t know where you’ve been i’ve only
know where i’ve been i know what i’ve
said i know what i’ve thought i know my
weaknesses and my frailties and my
faults and it’s been a revelation that
has transformed my life that god’s grace
is sufficient for us
his patience
the perfect patience of god that’s what
i want to talk to you about tonight
there are many characteristics of god
that i
am endeared to
like his sovereignty
his omniscience his omnipresence his
holiness his might i mean the list goes
on and on our god has some great
attributes they’re like links that make
up a chain of god’s character all these
different attributes that are links on
the chain of god’s character but really
when i think about it
the central link in all of those chains
that make up the character of god is the
patience of god
because if it weren’t for his patience
we wouldn’t exist long enough to
experience the the sovereignty the grace
the mercy the omnipresence the
omniscience we would have no experience
of all of that if his patients weren’t
sufficient for us
and so a revelation of god’s patience it
really does change your life now most of
the time when we think of the patience
of god or when we think of patience as a
characteristic we think of it in terms
of ourselves
patience
i am naturally an impatient person can i
get one witness in the house
i’m an impatient person i like things to
happen immediately come on let’s move
forward let’s get it going
been married for 22 years and whenever
we have a situation a dilemma something
that needs to be solved i’ve got a
solution in the first five minutes we
ever had the problem let’s get on with
it
but do you know how god is
god will oftentimes situate you with
people whether in marriage or in your
workplace or in your friendships he will
situate you with people that actually
rub against you to help mature the part
of you that needs developing
so i married a guy who you know wants to
pray about it think about it fast on it
ask wise counsel regarding it
lord have mercy
and so when jerry comes up with a
solution most of the time it’s the same
solution i had in the first five minutes
that we ever had a dilemma
now most of the time that that
solution he has come up with
is a good one that he has thought all
the way through because he’s patient
enough
to consider the entire context
in my relationship with my spouse spouse
god is developing in me
patience
so the reason why he might have you
situated next to that co-worker the one
in the cubicle next to you that one that
if she say one more thing to you you
gonna knock her out that one right there
the reason why you might have that
hardship in that parent-child
relationship or in that friendship the
reason why you might have that that
thing is because god is using that
relationship to mature in you
the characteristic of patience so
because it’s something we need to be
developed in
we often times put that same dynamic on
god
we think that because we need to develop
our patience that god must need to
develop his too
we think we have the capacity how
arrogant of us to think that we have the
capacity to actually get on his last
nerve
so god doesn’t react to us
at a knee-jerk reaction frustration
because you just did that
he is slow
to anger anybody glad about it
and he is great in loving kindness and
his patience is
perfect
one of the clearest places in scripture
that god’s patience is described
is in first timothy chapter one
it’s verse 16.
the apostle paul is writing and you know
if you actually have an old school bible
like i do with paper pages feel free to
turn to first timothy chapter one if not
your iphone your ipad any manner of
i-ness will work in getting you
to first timothy they’ll also be on the
screens paul is writing to a young
minister named timothy and he’s
basically given tim instructions on how
to minister well and right here at the
very top of his very first letter to
timothy he begins to speak to him about
the nature of the patience of god he
knows up front that timothy is going to
make mistakes that there’s going to be
hard times that there’s going to be
hardships that he’s going to take one
step forward and sometimes two steps
back and so right here at the top of his
letter he begins to speak to timothy he
says in verse 16.
yet for this reason
i found mercy
in order that in me as the foremost he
means the chief of all sinners in me
jesus christ might demonstrate here it
is his perfect patience
y’all what kind of patience is it
it’s his perfect patience perfect which
means even at that which represents its
furthest extremes there is not one bit
of deficiency or imperfection it is
completely perfect through and through
the patience of god towards you and me
and paul i love how he describes in this
verse who he is he says i’m the foremost
i’m the chief of all sinners because he
wants to make sure that just in case
there’s anybody that thinks you are the
exception to the rule
because you know what you did 10 years
ago this time
you know the decision that you made you
know the people that you allowed in your
sphere of influence you know the
addiction that you had you know what god
has delivered you from and so paul says
just in case you think you’re the one
that doesn’t fit into this passage
that doesn’t qualify for a visitation of
the perfect patience of god he says let
me free you of that right now he says
i’m the foremost the chief of all
sinners paul says you ain’t done nothing
i haven’t already done
your hands haven’t touched anything that
i haven’t already touched your feet
haven’t gone anywhere that i haven’t
already gone your ears haven’t heard
anything your eyes haven’t seen anything
your mouth has not said anything i have
not already said and if god’s grace and
mercy is so great that he could reach
down into the pit that i dug for myself
if his arm is not so short that he could
not save me
then paul says that i came to tell you
that he can save you too
he says i’m the chief of all sinners and
i am a witness paul says
that the patience of god
is perfect
i love when verses start
the way this verse starts because when
verses start like this it tells me
exactly what i need to do in my study
and in my teaching verse 16 starts by
saying for this reason
anytime you see a transition phrase like
that little bible study for a second
y’all anytime you see a little
transition phrase like that it tells you
exactly what to do it’s kind of like
seeing therefore in the scripture
anytime you see therefore you need to go
see what it’s there for
the transition is intentional because
it’s trying to draw connections draw
some intentional dots so that you know
exactly what to do paul says for this
reason
i have come to the conclusion of the
perfect patience of god that means he’s
already
developed a hypothesis he’s developed
some evidence that leads him to the
conclusion that we have come to in verse
16.
he says yet for this reason so i figure
if just for a few minutes you and i
could backtrack up through the text and
figure out what the reasons are
that we’ll be able to figure out how he
came to the conclusion of verse 16 and
in doing so i think we’ll realize that
he’s not the only one that is a witness
to the perfect patience of god i think
we are too
so he says here’s the first reason we’re
backtracking up verse 15.
he says it is a trustworthy statement
deserving full acceptance
here it is that christ jesus came into
the world
to save
sinners
says here’s how you know the patience of
god is perfect
he saved you didn’t he
he
saved us
you all know he didn’t need us right
y’all know he didn’t have to make a way
for us to have relationship with him
it was his grace and mercy his desire to
have relationship with humanity
most of us are sitting in this room not
because we found god it’s because god
found us
it’s because the hound of heaven would
not let us go even when we were trying
to run away
he saved us
never in a million years should we hear
that phrase and sometimes if you’ve been
in church all your life
you can hear a phrase like that that
you’re saved and it kind of rolls off
your shoulders casually as if it’s no
big deal
he saved you
never in a million years should that be
a casual comment that doesn’t make
something on the inside of us just want
to say thank you
because paul says that’s one of the
reasons that you know his patience is
perfect okay
do you know that it is a miracle
that you were born
okay i mean physically born that you’re
alive at this time in this generation in
this skin with this hair texture in that
gender none of that was unintentional
that is divine strategy that god
organized to make sure that you are
exactly who you were intended to be
at this time in history for the purposes
of the kingdom
this is good news i’m on a little rabbit
trail this is good news for anybody in
the house that thinks that you might be
a mistake just because your parents were
surprised that you arrived on the scene
they may have been shocked but god was
not
before the foundation of the world he
had you planned for this generation
you and i have been assigned for this
y’all
we didn’t come through 2020 all the
havoc of 2020 we didn’t exist at the
time of 2020 on accident we’ve been sign
for this
he planned us to rise up in the spirit
and the power of god right now in this
generation in these bodies in this skin
with this hair texture in this gender in
my neighborhood in my high school on my
college campus in this church
he made you for this
it’s a miracle
there was a guy
generations
ago at the time he didn’t know it but he
was going to be your great great
grandfather
he just happened
with seven billion plus people on the
planet to run into the woman that would
be your great great grandmother they
came together and they created your
great-grandfather
then your great-grandfather with the
seven billion plus people that are on
the planet
he just happened to run into the woman
that would be your great-grandmother the
two of them came together and created
your grandfather and then your
grandfather with the seven billion plus
people that are on the planet he just
happened upon the woman that was going
to be your grandmother
then the two of them came together and
created your father and then your father
with the seven billion plus people that
are on the planet at just the right time
on the right day he came together with
the woman that would be your mother and
they created
you
there ain’t nothing chance about that
that’s a miracle
and if you think that it was a miracle
that you were
born
think about how much more of a miracle
it is that you were born again
again
there was divine strategy involved in
wooing you into a relationship with your
heavenly father
i’ve heard my own daddy describe it like
a cosmic chess board
that all of time and history has been a
cosmic battle that has been waging
between a god who loves us desperately
and wants us to be in relationship with
him and an enemy you do know that there
is an enemy vying for your allegiance
and mine
so it’s like a cosmic chessboard god is
on one side of the cosmic chessboard and
the enemy is on the other side both of
them vying for our attention our
allegiance and our commitment to them
and so pre-genesis 1 1
god makes the first move
he speaks the world into existence and
he creates adam and eve in a perfect
environment perfect relationship with
himself perfect opportunity to commune
with him
but then the enemy made a move on the
cosmic chess board he slithered into
that perfect environment and he
introduced sin into the equation all of
a sudden rebellion begin to have a
ripple effect till you get to the point
where cain ends up murdering abel and
they have to be removed from the garden
because sin is now introduced into the
equation and it seems like all hope is
lost but
our god never to be outdone he makes
another move on his side of the cosmic
chessboard
somehow he causes cain he causes adam
and eve to come back together again they
have a baby boy named seth
seth gives birth to a baby boy named
enosh and i don’t know what it was about
enosh but genesis chapter 4 says that
when enosh was born everybody began to
worship god again
then the enemy made another move he
introduced sin and rebellion back into
the equation it proliferated across the
earth so much so that the entire world
now needed to be destroyed by a flood
and this time it looked like for sure
the enemy had one but our god never to
be outdone he had another move up his
sleeve and his name was noah
and he said no i need you to build an
ark noah said you need me to do what
he said i need you to build me an ark
because by your obedience humanity will
be preserved through this flood
so humanity is preserved through noah’s
obedience as the flood destroys the
entire earth and if
the enemy decides he needs to make
another move
he introduces sin and rebellion back
into the equation again it ripple
effects over time till it proliferates
across the earth and it seems like this
time the enemy has won but our god has
another move up his sleeve he goes to
this little pagan town called er he
plucks out of it a man named abram and
he says abram i’m getting ready to
change your name and i’m going to change
the gps coordinates on your destiny
your name is now abraham and look up in
the skies abraham because if you look up
you’re going to see so many stars you
need to know that that’s the number of
people that are getting ready to be born
from you i’m going to create a brand new
nation of people they will be mine and i
will be theirs
the enemy makes another move
he now takes god’s people and
causes it so that they now go down into
egypt land 400 years y’all four
centuries of brutal slavery one
generation after the other generation
under the brutal uh task masters of
pharaohs in egypt
and they are tired and weary and worn
and calling out for a savior
god makes a move
and his name is moses
he raises up moses so that at the right
time in the right way he can send him to
pharaoh and he says go to pharaoh and mo
i want you to tell him let my people go
and so pharaoh releases the children of
israel and after 40 years wandering in
the wilderness and 10 miraculous plagues
that induce their release they finally
come through their wandering in the
wilderness into the promised land that
was always intended for them god’s
people in the place of god with the
presence of god and the promises of god
here they are in the promised land and
it looks like the battle for our souls
is over but then the enemy makes another
move
in the book of judges it’s all about
god’s people being introduced to
idolatry listen to me
they do not turn their backs on the one
true god
they just station their worship of god
alongside their worship and the idols of
the culture
and the duplicity of the people of god’s
allegiance
is so devastating that by the time you
get to the end of the book of judges the
last line of the book of judges says
and everybody was doing what was right
in their own eyes
if that don’t sound like the world in
the year 2021 i don’t know what does
and it wasn’t because god’s people
totally turned their backs
it’s just because they weren’t
singularly devoted to the worship of god
this time it looks like for sure the
enemy has won but god has another plan
and her name is ruth
and ruth’s life starts off pretty hard
she has some devastating losses and some
griefs and her struggle is hard she has
to relocate to a place she doesn’t feel
comfortable and she is unknown but in
that unfamiliar place she ends up
meeting at the right time a man named
boaz who is her kinsmen redeemer and the
two of them will come together and they
create a man named jesse and and jesse
gives birth to obed and obed gives birth
to a little baby boy named
david
and the enemy doesn’t even know it
but with that one move the checkmate is
already on the way
and y’all then the old testament closes
and there’s 400 years of silence
god is sitting on one side of the cosmic
chess board the enemy is sitting on the
other side and all of history is hanging
in the balance everybody’s waiting to
see who’s getting ready to make the next
move
and then the old testament closes
and the new testament opens
and god the father makes a move the
likes of which the enemy still to this
day has never had a response
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you got it
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he puts on flesh
and basically says you know what i’m
gonna come down here and take care of
this myself
and he lives a perfect life and he dies
of substitutionary death and then three
days later he is raised the resurrection
is our receipt
that he is who he said he is
and he has accomplished for us exactly
what he has said that he has
accomplished
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he
saved you
and it wasn’t a quick job
it was over the course of years hundreds
of years in millennia that he was
maneuvering circumstances throughout
time and eternity to make sure that
everything lined up to where you would
hear the beckoning of the holy spirit in
your heart and want to resp have no
choice but to respond and say yes i
receive you as my lord and savior the
only reason you or i could ever see
clearly is because he himself opened up
our eyes so that we could see
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why in the world would paul bring up
salvation in a conversation about god’s
patience
because he wants you to know that if god
had enough patience
to walk through the last few millennia
for you
that he’s got the last six weeks of your
life covered
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there is nothing you could do
to wear a god like that out
so paul says the first reason you got to
know that god’s patience and grace is
sufficient for you
is because he saved you
but he says there’s another reason
verse 13. he says even though i was
formerly somebody say form formerly
some translations say previously even
though i was formerly or previously a
blasphemer a persecutor and a violent
aggressor yet i was shown mercy
all right y’all
paul told us in verse 16 he was the
chief of all sinners
he was like i’m not going to tell you
all my whole sin resume you don’t need
all the details ain’t nobody got time
for that i’m just going to let you know
my resume of sin is full
so i don’t have to give you all the
details and i’m kind of glad that right
off the bat he didn’t give us lots of
details because we you know we
christians we have a tendency to be
looking at the details of other people’s
sin resumes
and we’re so caught up in what they did
in dissecting it and critiquing it and
talking about behind their back about it
that we forget that we actually don’t
have time to be dealing with anybody
else’s thin resume because we have one
of our own
so i’m glad that up front he didn’t blur
our attention with all the details
but here in verse 13 he says you know
what i’ma hand you just three
on my sin resume i’m not gonna let you
see all of it but i’m gonna pull down
the the shade just enough to where you
can just get just a glimpse
he says i was a persecutor i was a
violent aggressor i was a blasphemer
so he gives us a handful
but he says i want you to know even as
you read my sin resume
that there is a title
at the top of my sin resume
it is an all caps bold font so that you
don’t miss it before you read what i’ve
done
and the subtitle is this
formerly
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he says
this is who i was
but this is not who i am anymore
paul wants you to know that the proof
that god is patient
is not only that he saved you
but also that he’s changed you
oh this is great news for anybody that
is in the room and the people that told
you they would stick with you while you
change
they’ve long since gone
that friend told you she had your back
while you went through that development
that you needed in that area of weakness
or struggle that you had she told you
she’d be with you till the end that
partner that spouse that person that was
covenanted to walk with you through that
thing and now you’re sitting here alone
tonight because that mother that father
your cousin and your mama them they all
left you because they didn’t have enough
patience for what you were dealing with
paul wants you to know that there is one
who will never leave you nor forsake you
even as you change
even when you still have work to do
even when i still have work to do even
when i see the struggle and the the
difficulty and the weakness and the
frailty of my flesh his grace is
sufficient enough for us
and paul says the reason why i know it
is because i am not the same person that
i used to be
he keeps on changing me he keeps on
walking with me he keeps on giving me
grace he keeps on by the power of the
holy spirit within me sanctifying me
somebody say sanctify
sanctification is the process by which
you and i are molded into the image of
jesus christ
him saving you was your justification
him changing you is your sanctification
this is when your mind starts changing
your perspective starts changing your
attitude starts changing your ambitions
start changing you never thought you’d
not want that but all of a sudden you
have a distaste for it you never thought
you would ever have an ambition like
this because you’ve always wanted to do
this and go here but now that thing just
ain’t appealing to you anymore and this
is a new direction that you want to go
this is the process by which the holy
spirit is molding you
into the image of jesus christ and i
don’t know about you but i’m so grateful
for the sanctifying power of the holy
spirit of god
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because i bet if i took this little
microphone off and we just started right
here on road number one and we started
to go all the way back through this room
and then into the overflow we would be
here well into 2022 talking about how we
are not the same people that we used to
be
i don’t know what your testimony is i’m
telling you that i can look back on a
time in my life where i don’t even
recognize that girl back there
that person who allowed those kinds of
relationships and made those kinds of
decisions and walked that kind of walk
and talked with that kind of talk i
don’t even it seems like an entirely
different individual than when i look in
the mirror today and i’m so grateful for
the sanctifying power of god
i’m not the same person that i used to
be anybody happy about that
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thank you jesus
i’m telling you he can change you
the biggest miracle that often our god
does y’all is not in our circumstances
it’s in you
it’s i’m telling you he can change your
mind
i’m telling you he can make you want
stuff you don’t want right now listen
i i there have been times in my life
y’all where i’ve had a messed up want to
i mean i wanted to do what’s right the
problem was my want to didn’t want to do
what my want to was supposed to want to
do
anybody
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i wished i wanted to do right is what
i’m saying
it’s it’s like paul in romans 7 he
describes this tug of war he’s like the
desire is present within me but there’s
something about my body that keeps
wanting to go in the opposite direction
of what is the right thing to do and he
is so frustrated by the time he gets to
the end of romans 7 describing this war
that he just says oh wretched man that i
am
who’s gonna deliver me from this tug of
war anybody know the tug of war
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i’m telling you that the holy spirit of
god can make your want to line up with
what god wants your wants you to want to
do
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have you ever wondered how popcorn pops
somebody say yes
i’m so glad you want to know
there’s a little dot of water
microscopic
inside each kernel of corn
so when you put the little bag of
microwave popcorn inside the microwave
the heat is not heating up the kernel
it’s heating up the little drop of water
that’s on the inside of the kernel
and as the water heats up it creates
steam and the steam creates more and
more pressure until finally the kernel
pops open
and you see an entirely different item
not because you heated up the shell
but because you heated up what was on
the inside of the shell
listen
y’all gotta be up here with a baptist
towel like y’all
don’t play with me
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listen to me y’all if you concentrate on
the shell on behavior modification
the best you’re gonna get is something
temporary
and not only will it be temporary but
you’ll be plain old flat out exhausted
but
if you will concentrate on heating up
the work of the holy spirit on the
inside of you the holy spirit is not a
ghost or a wind or a fire or a dove he’s
often symbolized by those things but
y’all that ain’t who he is
the holy spirit is the third person of
the trinity
not third because he’s least in value
just third because he’s the last to be
revealed to us in the pages of scripture
all of the power all of the goodness all
of the authority of god the father is in
the person of the holy
spirit and ephesians chapter 1 says that
the moment you believe you receive the
greatest gift you will ever receive this
side of eternity you receive the holy
spirit of god
okay
that means now that the holy the
presence and power of god lives on the
inside of you and 2 thessalonians 1 13
says that the holy spirit has a phd
in sanctifying you
it’s his work in you he’s doing it right
now he’s molding you changing you
transforming you redeeming you making
you a different person than you used to
be until one day you look at your
sentiment resume and realize that the
subtitle is
formal
foreign
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amen
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i’m trying to tell you he’s got enough
patience
for whatever that journey is that you’ve
got ahead of you the place of sin or
rebellion or indifference or hardness or
apathy that you have in your heart right
now the anger the unforgiveness the
bitterness the struggle that you’re
having and you see no way out and you
wonder if anybody’s gonna hang in there
with you this time
you are not too too far gone
that the arm of god can’t reach out and
find you where you are
he will walk with you every
single day
while you change
grace is sufficient for you
paul says
he saved you
that’s your justification
he changes you that’s your
sanctification
and then he says there’s just one more
reason
verse 12.
i thank jesus christ our lord
who has
strengthened
your salvation is your justification and
your changing is your sanctification and
now he’s giving you some fortification
he says
i’m gonna make you stronger
than you are right now
i’m going to give you a resilience and a
fortification that’s going to be
required
if you’re going to be able to weather
the storms that are coming your way
because listen in this world jesus said
john 16 33 you will have trouble
you don’t have to go looking for trouble
have you noticed
you just keep on living and the trouble
ends up coming and finding you
you’re gonna need a supernatural
strength for that
now you know some of you may still be in
your teen years or maybe even in your
early 20s and maybe you haven’t
experienced any storms so you think life
will always be like it is right now
baby keep living
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because the storms of life are
inevitable
you’re gonna need some strength
you’re gonna need some backbone for
anybody in this day and age to actually
have some integrity
to actually use your social media
platform and influence to be unashamed
about who your savior is to not lean to
the left or to the right in order to be
politically correct but to decide i have
made my decision as for me and my house
we’re gonna serve the lord
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you’re gonna need some backbone for that
you’re gonna need some resilience for
that
and paul says he’s got enough patience
to make you strong enough to be able to
stand up
when everybody else caves in
so i’m speaking to everybody in this
room all the people my sons ages
teenagers who were in this room listen
you were made for this hour god has
given you the strength and the
resilience that you need to stand up
even if you have to stand alone to be
the sore thumb that sticks all the way
out to have resilience and fortification
and to be peculiar and an alien and a
stranger to this world you’ve got enough
strength for that
i’m telling you you were made for this
don’t back down and don’t bend the holy
spirit of god is making you strong
enough
for this hour
some of you are in the storm of your
life right now
culturally collectively we’ve all
globally we have all been in a storm
y’all we haven’t just been through one
pandemic it’s been like layered
pandemics on top of pandemics there’s
that medical one of course but there’s
been a social one there’s been a racial
one there’s been a political one layered
pandemics on top of pandemics you and i
are gonna need a supernatural strength
for this
and on top of what we’ve all been
through personally i know that some of
you have been through the same kind of
stuff we’ve been through
loss after loss yo we have had eight
losses in our family in two years
back to back like where every three to
four months another person in our life
passed away
we’ve had medical diagnosis after
medical diagnosis where the storms of
life it’s like that the world just
opened up over our family and there were
storms that were pelting down on us and
the reason why i can tell you that god
will give you enough strength to sustain
you
is because i’m a living witness
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that y’all we have been through the
storm
but the holy spirit reminds me that god
is still who he said he is that i’m
telling you my faith in him my hope in
him has not wavered have i cried the
tears have i been disappointed have i
asked the questions yes but i’ve asked
the questions without questioning the
character of god he is who he said he is
and i don’t tell you that to tell you
how strong i am
i’m telling you there is a supernatural
strength
that he’ll make available to you it’s a
fortification it’s a resilience
high school student you’re gonna need it
university student you’re gonna need it
jc you’re gonna need it mariah you’re
gonna need it ryan you’re gonna need it
pastor madhu you’re gonna need it
stephanie you’re gonna need it a
resilience for what it is that god has
called you to and he gives it to you
by the holy spirit
okay
he’s got enough patience for that
i want to know if you are in this room
and you have literally felt like even
before you came here you kind of felt
like you know what i’m actually too far
gone for any of this to work for me
because my story is different than
everybody else’s story
the history i have the background i’ve
come from the abuse that i’ve suffered
or that i have rendered
the hard place that i have come from i
just don’t know
that god’s grace is sufficient for
somebody like me i’m telling you if that
is you and you are in this room and you
can just feel your heart burning within
you that’s how the holy spirit speaks to
you listen to me if your heart is
burning within you right now and you
know you need to respond
and receive the patience of god for you
just come down front right now if that’s
you don’t think twice about it don’t
debate with yourself just just come on
down
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his grace is sufficient
his grace is sufficient
his grace is sufficient
his grace is sufficient
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he’s got your back
his grace is sufficient
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his grace is sufficient he’s got you
he’s got you
grace is sufficient
his grace is sufficient
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i bet you there are some of you
that maybe have never received christ as
savior before
then there’s others of you who have you
have accepted christ as your savior but
you’ve kind of taken a little detour and
you’ve worried about whether or not the
arm of god is long enough to bring you
back
whichever category you fall into and
pray for you tonight
and i believe that the holy spirit is
going to give you before tonight is over
an awakening a revelation of the
extravagant patience of god for you that
you’re going to walk out of here not in
fear and insecurity anymore in your
relationship with god no tiptoeing no
eggshells anymore now is the time when
you’re gonna live the abundant life ryan
that god has called you to without fear
and with complete abandon walking in
faith before the lord that’s what’s
gonna happen tonight so if you need to
place faith in jesus christ if this is
the first time you’ve ever even heard
that whole salvation story what god went
through for you
and you want us to receive christ as
savior the bible says that if you
confess with your mouth
and you believe in your heart that jesus
christ is lord he did all the heavy
lifting all you have to do is receive
the gift
so i’m just going to pray this prayer
and i want you to repeat after me if
that’s the prayer you need to pray
it’s no magic in the words this is you
believing in your heart as you confess
with your mouth
in fact we can all pray this prayer
together to build an atmosphere of faith
for those who are praying it for the
very first time
so let’s pray lord jesus
i am a sinner
in need of a savior
and i believe
that you are that savior
so today
i place faith alone
in christ alone
to remove my sins
take up residence in me
in the person of the holy spirit
right now
in jesus name
lord i thank you for those who have come
into the family of god in this moment i
thank you that the angels are rejoicing
if you draw them in
i praise your father
and then lord i thank you that the
rescue mission that you’ve been on for
our soul is evidence to the fact that
your grace and patience is sufficient
for all of us so i pray right now in
jesus name that the blanket of
discouragement that the enemy may be
putting on anybody’s shoulders i ask you
to lift it off of their shoulders right
now in jesus name i pray against every
scheme of the enemy to cause there to be
a distortion of your grace and your
mercy i asked father that you would
renew their minds right now i pray lord
that you would pour out your grace upon
them your patience upon them father and
give them a revelation of your love for
them
thank you father that right now in jesus
name you are setting them free in the
mighty name of jesus christ
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you
amen <3