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Uh Oh, I Forgot To Have My V8

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Participants: Cory Jackson

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01:00 I'm thankful to be part of this rally.
01:02 You know that the word rally,
01:04 simply means to gather together
01:06 so that you can become inspired.
01:09 And we are living in such a time
01:10 where it's almost hard to be inspired
01:13 because they are so much bad news around us, Amen.
01:18 And so, I entitled to this sermon today,
01:21 oh, I forgot to have my V8. When I was little boy,
01:27 I didn't like vegetables at all.
01:30 Matter of fact I could not stand them
01:33 and it wasn't until I became a Christian 10 years ago
01:37 and decided to be a vegetarian that
01:40 I had to start liking vegetables.
01:43 And even though they are some that
01:46 I struggled with, I eat them, but there is
01:53 popular commercial that's on the TV today,
01:56 and basically whenever you see these commercials
02:00 about V8 juice, fruit juice and one particular
02:03 one that I like is, he is about to throw away
02:05 with his vegetables and amidst he throwing
02:08 his vegetables his wife hit some day at the noggin
02:10 and she says oh, oh you should to have had a V8.
02:13 And so, when I think about that,
02:16 I think about the understanding behind it
02:18 and the understanding behind it is if you don't
02:21 have your vegetables that your life would be
02:25 off balance, it would be unhealthy.
02:26 I never knew the importance of vegetables
02:30 even though my mother would scream at me
02:31 about eat vegetables son this and that,
02:35 but now being a vegetarian I understand
02:37 I can't live without them. And it's the same
02:41 way in the spiritual life that I believe that
02:43 many of us are not taking our vegetables,
02:46 which is the word of God and some of us
02:50 have forgotten the V8. And so if you were
02:55 closer I would probably hit you in the noggin
02:57 and said oh, oh you should have had your V8.
03:00 As you look, in the world around us is seemly
03:06 not getting any better. Matter of fact, it's a
03:09 jungle out here. My children, they love to
03:13 go to the zoo. And I'm at the point now well
03:17 may not have to pay to go to the zoo anymore,
03:19 especially in the city of Detroit which is the
03:21 second most violent city in America.
03:23 I can just go to a local neighborhood
03:26 and watch the Tigers and the animals and
03:29 the Bears oh my, but it's a sad commentary,
03:33 where we live and how we live.
03:35 And I want to tell you that, that's not far from
03:39 many of us, anytime you and I don't spend
03:44 time with God. There is a Beast that resides
03:48 in all of us. I was looking at CNN
03:52 and I'm an advocate of watching news.
03:55 There is anything I'm guilty off
03:56 I watch CNN too much. And yesterday as I
04:00 watching the news I listened to a man,
04:03 who was watching his girlfriend's baby
04:07 and you've probably heard about it,
04:10 he was given her bath, she didn't like
04:13 a hair wash, she began crying, the crying get
04:17 even more intense, he got so upset with her,
04:21 he threw in the dryer, he threw it in the dryer.
04:26 The dryer had already been on so you know
04:28 that the heat was already exceedingly hot,
04:31 but he threw in the dryer and he says for
04:33 only five seconds as though he is some hero,
04:37 but that's the type of world we live in.
04:40 where there is bestiality all around us from
04:45 violence to sexual predators. There is a
04:49 website out now for pedophiles that
04:51 teaches them how to get close to a child
04:54 without breaking the law. And he is a pedophile
04:57 and is so the internet. If you have your Bibles,
05:02 I know you do go to Isaiah 64, verse 6,
05:05 and I'm like Pastor Howard, I love when
05:08 people say Amen. And in my church
05:12 if you don't if you are not there they generally
05:15 say give me a minute. So we won't leave
05:18 anyone out, amen. So if you not there yet
05:22 you can simply say give me a minute.
05:23 Isaiah chapter 64, talking about the need of having
05:30 of the V8, the verse 6 simply says,
05:34 but we are all as an unclean thing,
05:38 and all our righteousness are as what?
05:41 Filthy Rags; and we do all fade as a leaf;
05:45 and our iniquities, like the wind,
05:48 have taken us where, away so the best that
05:51 I could give God is still like a what, filthy rag.
05:56 Go one look over to Jeremiah chapter 13,
05:59 Jeremiah chapter 13th, Jeremiah the 13th
06:04 chapter familiar text, verse 23,
06:09 the Bible says at this way, can Ethiopian
06:14 change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
06:17 Then may ye also do good that are
06:20 accustomed to do what, Evil.
06:23 So, you and I are used to do what Evil.
06:27 I give you an example. Say you have in a bad day,
06:30 no, no, no you folks you don't have a bad day,
06:33 but let's say you have in a bad day
06:35 and for some reason the shoes you worn last
06:38 night just all of the sudden developed
06:40 a corn on one of your toes, and all of the
06:44 sudden someone comes in happy go lucky
06:46 and smile and not really penetrated
06:47 what they are doing and they just step on
06:49 your foot. Get tired, get irritated and you are
06:54 countered, Amen, your first response
06:59 would be hey thank you, have a great day.
07:03 Your first response would be this,
07:05 but didn't you catch yourself.
07:09 So our first response generally is what,
07:11 of Evil and so God says that our righteousness
07:16 as filthy rags and we are accustomed to
07:18 doing what Evil. Jeremiah 17 verse 9,
07:23 says that the heart is deceitful above
07:26 what all things and desperately what wicked.
07:30 So it tells you already of our condition
07:33 before we even get started with a message.
07:36 Uh, oh I should had a what V8.
07:40 One of my favorite books, The "Mount of Blessings"
07:44 page 22 says this; the heart of man is
07:49 by nature cold, dark and unloving.
07:55 The heart of man by nature is cold,
07:59 dark and what, unloving.
08:03 This is the reason why it's easy for
08:05 someone to kill a baby, mess with a child,
08:08 rape someone, rob someone, killed
08:10 without a moment because anytime you
08:13 and I are not possessed by Christ.
08:17 We are not natural state, are you with me so far?
08:23 And I'm gonna to show you real life example
08:25 of this, if I may. Turn in your book to do in
08:30 your Bibles at Daniel chapter 4,
08:34 one of the horrifying things about society
08:38 is that no matter, if you have security
08:40 alarms, no matter if you have an arsenal,
08:46 there is still a chance that you and I subject
08:48 violence, Amen. No matter if we are in
08:53 cold water or Detroit, you're subject to some
08:57 type of violence. There was a young
09:00 girl in Minnesota age 14, who was pregnant
09:05 and her parents did not know she was
09:08 pregnant and how that is I don't know,
09:10 but they did not know she was pregnant.
09:15 So she has the baby and of course
09:17 because of parents did not know she wanted
09:20 to get rid off the baby and so she decided
09:23 that she is going to kill the baby and hide
09:27 the baby in the garage. Now, killing the baby is
09:32 sad enough, but she commenced to
09:35 stabbing the baby a 135 times.
09:43 Now you tell me what's wrong with that
09:46 picture. This is the world we live in and
09:50 in each one of us there is a beast ready to
09:53 lunge out. Are you with me so forth?
09:57 All you have to do is have a bad day
10:00 and watch the beast come out on your spouse,
10:04 on your children, on your co-workers
10:08 or even somebody in the church family.
10:11 You can have a bad day and walk in to miles,
10:13 and she missed ring up your mout,
10:16 and it's more than you having your pocket.
10:20 And there would be terror at the corner,
10:25 there is a beast in all of us. And Nebuchadnezzar
10:28 is a perfect example of this. In Daniel chapter 1
10:33 and I will review for you for time purpose,
10:36 Nebuchadnezzar had many chances to accept God,
10:41 amen. In Daniel chapter 1 we see Daniel who is
10:46 taking away from his family into captivity
10:48 and Scott was believed he was age 17 and
10:51 17 years old he is in Babylon, the greatest
10:55 nation at the time. And because of his wisdom,
11:00 Nebuchadnezzar besides that Daniel and his three
11:04 Hebrews were going to be scholars for him.
11:08 And so he told them that they need to
11:10 change their diet that they need to eat like him,
11:14 eat as food and drink as wine and so Daniel says
11:18 not so king, somebody else say amen.
11:22 That even our young people, when they told
11:24 right would be obedient. So Daniel said not so,
11:27 he said do you understand by doing this what you put
11:31 me at risk to do to you, Daniel understood to God
11:35 he serves so, he says just give me 10 days
11:38 and just give me vegetables and water
11:41 and watch God work and after 10 days
11:43 you know the story he was 10 times what stronger
11:45 and wiser and so the king saw it so the king
11:48 should have known right there, there is some
11:50 strange about these boys. Then you get the
11:53 Daniel chapter 2 the king have the strange dream
11:56 of the middle man and he get all of his soothsayers
12:01 and his astrologers and his scientific men
12:03 and of course they could not tell him
12:05 what the dream was, they go to Daniel,
12:08 Daniel try was to commotion and Daniel
12:10 says just give it to me and Daniel has
12:12 an all night prayer meet. Hymns just three Hebrew
12:16 words and they had have to praying
12:17 and Daniel is given a vision from God
12:21 and Daniel goes with the king and explains to
12:24 the king exactly what the dream interpret in
12:26 and in the king acknowledges God.
12:29 And you get the chapter 3, the temporary fix
12:33 of conversion last shortly, because now he sees
12:37 his head of God and he says oh that's me.
12:39 He makes this 90 foot statue in the plain of Dura.
12:43 He committed to everybody to come into what,
12:45 worship. At the sound of the music they were
12:50 suppose to drop down and bow down and dance
12:52 and all the service staff. But, the three Hebrew
12:56 words that says not so king. And he says if you
13:01 don't do it I will throw you into the fiery furnish
13:03 and he says even if you do you will know
13:06 that the God we serve, amen is strong within you,
13:13 but he get inside and there is foe in the midst,
13:17 don't you, don't you tell me that Jesus never
13:20 with you. Even in the midst of a burning
13:23 fiery furnish. How God will make some cool
13:27 when he is hot, hello, amen. The king sees it
13:33 and acknowledges again, but again as only a
13:36 temporary fix. Now the thing that I enjoy
13:41 about the Lord that he is a chaser, amen,
13:47 he chases us. And I've been married to
13:52 my wife for 12 years now and we just
13:54 renewed our vows last Sunday and I chased
13:58 my wife, amen. I chase her so much I told her
14:04 that I still holding her down, but God chases
14:09 his people. He chases with us because he
14:12 created us and he loves us, amen.
14:15 Now don't misunderstand it comes to time
14:17 when probation will close don't misunderstand that,
14:20 but in Christ Object lessons page 218,
14:27 the book says the heart that does not respond
14:30 to divine graces becomes hardy until it is no
14:35 longer susceptible to the influence of the
14:37 Holy Spirit. The hard, that does not respond
14:43 get hard as a pastor as a Gospel this ministry
14:48 I've seen it that hearts of grown hot on this
14:51 message of salvation, but even in the midst
14:55 of that God still continues to try
14:57 to what soften us and he will take us to
15:00 experiences, are you with me so far.
15:05 And here Nebuchadnezzar had three different
15:07 experiences, three different chapters that show
15:09 who God was and yet he still he only had a
15:13 temporary conversion, that only last at a
15:16 few moments, then it takes us to Daniel chapter 4
15:19 and in verse 10, Daniel chapter 4 the king
15:23 has another dream and I'll read it to you,
15:25 the Bible says in verse 10 of Daniel chapter 4,
15:28 those were the visions of mine heard in my bed;
15:32 I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth,
15:37 and the height thereof was great.
15:40 The tree grew, and was strong,
15:43 and the height thereof reached unto heaven,
15:45 and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
15:48 the leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof
15:51 much, and it was food for all: the beasts of the
15:55 field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the
15:58 heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof,
16:01 and all flesh was fed on it. I saw in the visions
16:06 of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher
16:09 and holy one came down from heaven;
16:11 He cried with a loud voice, and said thus,
16:19 shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit:
16:21 let the beasts get away from under it,
16:24 and the fowls from its branches:
16:27 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in
16:29 the earth, even with a band of iron and brass,
16:32 in the tender grass of the field;
16:34 and let it be wet with the dew of the heaven,
16:35 they let his portion be with the beasts in the
16:38 grass of the earth: Let his heart be changed
16:41 from man's, and let a beasts heart be given unto him;
16:44 and that seven years pass over him.
16:47 Can you imagine having a dream like this,
16:50 that you have a dream and you see this tree
16:53 and everything under the sun, receives its fulfillment
17:00 from you and then all of the sudden
17:02 I don't where, cut down the tree,
17:06 shake the leaves. Now me I would have woke up
17:11 in panic especially, but I know the
17:15 understand enough. Nebuchadnezzar have a
17:18 history with Daniel called Daniel needs to know
17:24 the interpretation, it's important.
17:29 The interpretation is given in verse 22
17:31 and 25 excuse me 26 and 27, and verse 22 he says,
17:38 it is you, oh, king, you are grown and become strong:
17:42 for the greatness is grown, and reach into heaven,
17:45 and thy domain to the end of the earth.
17:48 Verse 26, whereas thy commanded to leave
17:51 the stump of the tree of roots;
17:52 Thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee,
17:55 after that have known that the heavens do rule.
17:58 So God says I got to let you know that
18:02 I'm a transform of heart, but because you being
18:05 heart hurt right now Nebuchadnezzar
18:07 I got to take you to the fire.
18:09 You know any horror here people out there,
18:13 don't look at him, he'll give me away,
18:18 but he said I got to take you through
18:19 something to let you know that I'm in controlled,
18:22 because I want your heart above anything else,
18:25 are you with me so far. See God's word transform
18:28 us from beast, I will take it the rest later.
18:34 Is there a transformer, otherwise we've been like
18:37 a valley of dry bone. Verse 27 careful instructions,
18:44 wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable
18:48 unto thee, and break off your sins, your say,
18:52 by righteousness, by being righteous and thine
18:56 iniquities by showing mercy to the poor;
18:58 if it be for a lengthening of thy tranquility.
19:01 So he says I here is we need to happen,
19:05 we need to take the counsel that I give you
19:07 and there you need to start living right you
19:10 need to start living what, because you've listen
19:13 to me. Now do you start living right
19:15 but now you start showing mercy
19:16 because now you living in righteous life you
19:18 showing mercy of the poor. Whenever, So, So,
19:23 he has to count. Now he knows that Daniel is
19:28 a man of God and everything that Daniel has said,
19:32 he has spoken it from God. God's word never
19:35 changes, amen. If he says it, is gonna to happen,
19:39 then am I right, amen. So, he said of no,
19:43 above all that if I don't listen there is gonna
19:48 to be trouble in the camp. The pass out we can
19:52 tell you we've counsel people we show them Bible,
19:55 but yet and still people still just don't want to
19:57 listen and you fear for them, because God's word is
20:02 there to have our love to be rooted
20:05 and grounded in him. That's what we have to send
20:08 Bibles to Africa, amen. So that they can have the
20:12 same chance that we have. The king being like most
20:18 of us and you know Nebuchadnezzar is
20:22 some of our grandfather; he is kind to us somehow.
20:25 Verse 29 says, at the end of twelve months,
20:34 he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
20:37 How many months with equal to how long one
20:41 year at the end of twelve months,
20:45 he went to his palace. Verse 30 says, the king spoke,
20:50 and said, is not this great Babylon,
20:55 that I have built for the house of the kingdom
20:59 by the might of my power, and for the honor of my
21:03 majesty? Is this not to Babylon that I have
21:07 built I've done this, all of this is mine,
21:12 all of it is mine; not giving God credit all,
21:16 but Nebuchadnezzar had a problem,
21:18 he had a pride issue. And you have to understand
21:22 that God is trying to cut off everything for
21:24 my life that will stop us from being translated,
21:28 are you with me so far. And it's only by his word
21:31 that we know it uh, oh well I should had a V8,
21:38 but before we get to the next verse,
21:40 let's look at the time frame, he had twelve months to
21:46 repent, he had twelve months to get Bible studies,
21:50 he had twelve months to get pastoral counseling,
21:54 he had twelve months to go to church every week,
21:57 he had twelve months to go to pray of me,
21:59 he had twelve months to have a small group
22:02 Bible study, he had twelve months yeah, amen,
22:05 he had twelve long months God was waiting don't
22:09 you tell me my God is not a patient God, amen.
22:12 Let me show you 2nd Peter chapter 3,
22:15 hold just thumb there, hold your thumb there
22:17 and go to 2nd Peter 3 now I don't know most of
22:19 you can be sided, but 2nd Peter 3,
22:23 2nd Peter chapter 3 every one you there please
22:28 say amen. 2nd Peter chapter 3, 2nd Peter chapter 3,
22:36 the Bible says, the Lord is not slack concern
22:39 his promise, as some men count slackness;
22:41 but is long-suffering to us, not willing that any
22:44 should perish, but that all should what come to
22:47 repentant. God is waiting for people to get their
22:51 lives in order and the only way that happens is
22:53 when they know the word of God.
22:55 So for twelve months he has waited on Neby.
22:59 For twelve months he is waiting for him to change
23:03 his thought pattern, for twelve months
23:05 he is waiting for him to stop listen to certain
23:07 music, for twelve months he is waiting for him
23:09 to stop and hanging out with certain friends,
23:11 for twelve months long months he is waiting.
23:17 Besides he is waiting for some of us in this very
23:18 room. For twelve months he is waiting for some of us
23:23 to stop fornicating, for twelve months
23:26 he is waiting for some of us to stop using
23:28 pervaded language, for twelve months
23:31 he is waiting for some of us to come out
23:34 of in a torches relationship, for twelve months he is
23:37 waiting for some of us to stop our lustful
23:39 practices that we have, for twelve months
23:42 he is waiting for us to stop watching movies
23:44 that law of the Christian character,
23:46 for twelve months he is waiting for us to stop
23:49 listening to music that, that brings out the
23:51 animal passion, for twelve months he is waiting
23:54 for us to stop being so mean and so hateful,
23:57 for twelve months he is waiting for us to stop
24:00 gossiping, for twelve months he is waiting
24:04 for us to stop be in judgmental and hypocritical,
24:06 and for twelve months he is waiting for us
24:09 to be more faithful in our given ourselves to God,
24:12 for twelve months he is waiting for us to act like,
24:15 we know and whom we believe, for twelve months,
24:18 he is waiting for prejudice and racism and sexism
24:23 and Agism and all that stuff to be removed,
24:25 for twelve months he is waiting, for twelve months
24:29 he is waiting to remove everything that stuns
24:32 the Christian growth, for twelve months
24:34 they are sitting back waiting,
24:37 Jesus is intercessing on for us, twelve months
24:40 he is waiting for us to stop going to the casinos
24:43 and, twelve month he is waiting for us to eat
24:45 and live right, for twelve months yeah,
24:49 he is waiting for you and I, twelve months,
24:53 now I don't know about you, but if my wife,
24:58 if I was the was like Gomer I don't know
25:02 if I have twelve months, I love my wife to death,
25:08 but if she decided to walk out on our relationship
25:12 and sleep with somebody else.
25:13 I don't know if I would give her a
25:15 twelve months judgment we'll be executed, amen.
25:20 I'm sorry I don't have twelve months,
25:25 twelve months is a long time. 365 days 52 weeks
25:32 that's a long time. All you got is axed someone
25:36 who is engaged, and they are married
25:38 just twelve months from now, I've had some common past,
25:42 can we speed this process up, can we change the
25:45 wedding date, can we hurry up in you know get
25:47 married. Time is running twelve months to go.
25:50 This is a long time, but God is so gracious
25:55 that he is waiting for Nebuchadnezzar to get
25:59 his wife together. And unfortunately Nebuchadnezzar
26:06 like many of us won't listen. Verse 31, verse 31,
26:20 while the word was in the king's mouth,
26:23 their fell a voice from heaven, saying,
26:26 O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken;
26:30 thy kingdom is departed. But brother can't get
26:34 the words out of his mouth before the Lord
26:36 executed the prophecy. Did Daniel prophecy to
26:43 the bones? He did he said change,
26:48 but he don't want to listen, and says unto you the
26:53 kingdom is departed. Now verse 33, the same hour
26:59 was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar:
27:02 and was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen,
27:05 and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,
27:07 till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers,
27:10 and his nails like birds' claws.
27:12 This is the king, brothers and sisters,
27:15 this is not the servant, this is not the jackal,
27:18 this is the king, can you imagine one early
27:23 morning your responsibility is to go to the king
27:26 and serve him his cup of tea for the day
27:29 and you go and you knock on the door
27:32 and don't hear anything and it becomes strange to you.
27:35 So you knock a little bit louder boong, boong,
27:38 boong, and all of the sudden you hear something,
27:40 do you know the king don't have any pets
27:44 in the room so easily your heart start shaking,
27:47 you drop the tea and you nervous you hear again,
27:50 so you immediately called a captain guards
27:55 and everybody is running, run and
27:56 coming what's going on listen wait listen
27:58 let me knock. And now they scare,
28:06 because they know the king did not go
28:08 and bought pit Bulls and German Shepherds
28:09 and Bulldogs. So they tried door open just
28:13 a little bit, they peak in and they always
28:17 send a one, who is a scary send first some
28:21 of you almost been in that boat
28:23 or so he tries the door open, he peaks in and
28:30 he walking slowly and he don't see anything
28:34 and say common, keeps moving, common scary
28:38 guards not the king is now in the room
28:41 and all of the sudden you hear the noise you jump
28:45 and you back out of the room and you look around
28:47 and see nothing there then you go to the courtyard,
28:50 the balcony where the king is, usually have
28:53 a mid-day sun and you go and you look over.
28:58 You come back and just as though you just seen
29:02 a dead man and here you see the king of the
29:06 greatest nation of earth want all full was
29:09 eating grass man. Eating grass, ghost long again,
29:17 hair is long again, he looks up,
29:24 he is the king. I know some of you may look
29:29 like dead in the morning before you get all beautify,
29:32 If you honest, this is how we go, amen.
29:43 But the king now is a beast. Now scholars believe that
29:51 he wasn't really a beast. They simply suggest that
29:56 he had lost his mind for seven years
29:58 and when you lose your mind your nails go long,
30:01 your hairs uncombed and you act like a beast,
30:05 but my Bible said, he was like a beast eating grass.
30:09 There are beasts in this room right now.
30:14 There are beasts watching all around the world.
30:20 When church folk don't live according to God's
30:22 word he became a beast. All you got to do is
30:27 catch one of the wrong time and you are like
30:29 where did that come from. Can we pray together
30:32 no we no need to pray together.
30:39 Brothers and sisters, uh, oh I forgot to have my V8.
30:46 If we you don't get your V8 you began to fear
30:51 feel the beast, are you with me so far.
30:58 And God has a special way of showing his
31:01 people their sins, amen. Nothing is here from under
31:07 the sun. I got a good friend I won't say
31:12 who it is or where is from, but he has a sibling,
31:15 who grew up knowing God's word,
31:20 who grew up knowing what God expects
31:25 and this particular individual decided
31:27 to have an lustrous affair with married individual
31:31 for years. And a friend of mine found out
31:38 that his sibling has HIV then he got understand some.
31:44 The sibling wasn't in the church didn't take
31:46 associate was show up you know make a
31:48 guest appearance you know super star
31:51 appearance and wave and say hello and good bye,
31:53 but this particular person was in his affair for years,
31:58 and now this particular person has HIV.
32:03 Can you imagine how the parents feels send
32:07 the person to church school and college
32:11 and to have the kid end up like this?
32:14 There is a beast in all of us looking out,
32:20 there is a place that I go to often is
32:21 called Advent Home in Calhoun, Tennessee
32:24 and I go there three times a year,
32:26 because my background is a probation officer
32:29 during my probation officer. So I'm used to
32:31 dealing with hardcore case that don't mean
32:33 you could sin or you case to me either,
32:36 but this place is desire to help the linked
32:38 case especially those who have the church.
32:41 And when I sit and talk with him,
32:44 and interview them, and counsel them,
32:46 you will be amazed how they hooked on pornography.
32:50 You will be amazed how they hooked on drugs.
32:52 You will be amazed on how they are hooked
32:53 on all these negative attributes and guess
32:57 where they see it from, the parents.
33:05 There was a beast in me, that's the how
33:08 we are informed you. I was studying to be a
33:11 Black Panther; I was studying to be a Black
33:14 Muslim. So, if I was who I was back then
33:19 and brother do I hold and invited me to a
33:21 rally I wouldn't think it was this type of rally,
33:23 amen. But there was a beast in me and my
33:28 number priority in life was to kill the white man,
33:33 I live for that. Even when my mother sent me
33:35 to college, but I'm from the south side of
33:39 Chicago which is a very segregated area,
33:42 where free of kind is the man his temple
33:46 and everything is there, the Mosque,
33:48 and so I grew up in a early 90's in my teenage years
33:53 and that's one all the black perhaps start resurging
33:55 and black sans party and so as I got to
33:58 acquaint this college in Grand Rapids in Michigan
34:00 they weren't too many folks like me at the campus.
34:03 And so I am running in with folks,
34:06 we are always, and so my buddies
34:09 and I we just knew that we are going to kill us
34:12 white man one day. That was our desire.
34:16 It really was to kill us a white man.
34:21 We were waiting for the opportunity.
34:24 All he had to do would say that wrong word
34:27 and it was on. And I deserved this hardness
34:31 of the heart and as a result of that hardness
34:34 my temper became very quick, so that if we got
34:37 into it I would swing before I asked questions,
34:40 did as I was told. Oh don't worry now
34:44 I'm not like that now, amen. It's only one of
34:50 me, ha, ha, ha. And I won't give you too
34:55 much because I am going to take your more tomorrow,
34:57 but the whole point is, if I could have been a
35:01 wrong force like a beast it would have been,
35:02 but when God gave me this message to a mentor
35:08 of mine, a Richard Magsby, it began to soften my heart.
35:12 So my desire to kill began to diminish,
35:17 my desire to hurt began to diminish and all the
35:21 desires that I had that I grown up with in the
35:23 world began to diminished and as a result God
35:27 touched my soul, amen halleluiah.
35:31 And God has a funny way of showing you how
35:34 he has broken you down. So when I came into the
35:36 church the first person I brought to the church
35:39 was a white female. Isn't that so?
35:44 Does God have a sense of humor, amen? Amen.
35:49 But I was a beast, and I don't mind acknowledging
35:52 I was beast but even when I got in the church,
35:54 I still was a beast because I was eating wrong type
35:59 of food, spiritually, are you with me so far.
36:04 So you can be in the church and not be part
36:07 of the church and not be looking towards sermon
36:09 but I was still a beast, I was not drinking my V8,
36:14 are you with me so far. I was drinking some
36:17 other type of stuff. So I will go to church and then
36:20 after church I was still go to my block buster
36:22 videos, I was still hanging out with some my friends
36:25 I was still doing this and that. I was not drinking
36:29 the V8. I did not have my mind on spiritual things,
36:36 but I was in the church, but I was still a beast,
36:40 are you with me so far, amen. So Nebuchadnezzar
36:45 now is a beast. Now the story ended there,
36:50 there is no hope, amen, amen. He is a beast yeah,
36:58 he is the king look at the picture; he is a beast,
37:02 eating grass land. Oh but my God is gracious,
37:08 he is gracious go to Daniel chapter 4,
37:12 look at verse 15, I get excited,
37:16 so if I get jumping around the camera can catch me
37:19 I'm sorry, but, but, but God, he shows us
37:23 something in his word that even though
37:25 we can act like a beast, there is still hope, amen.
37:30 Daniel chapter 4 verse 15, he says,
37:33 nevertheless leave the stump of his roots
37:37 in the what, in the earth, even with a band of iron
37:43 and brass and the tender grass of the field,
37:46 and let it be wet with the dew of heaven,
37:48 and let us portion with the beasts in the grass
37:50 of the earth. God says that even though cut down
37:53 the tree save the root. See you don't understand
37:56 that? He says cut down the tree,
37:58 but I'm going to save the root,
38:00 I'm going to keep it in the earth.
38:02 Somebody get excited. I will cut down the lambs
38:05 of what, the lamb of sexual perversion,
38:09 the lamb of adultery, the lamb of hatred,
38:12 the lamb of anger, the lamb of lustful desire,
38:16 the lamb of lying, the lamb of cheating,
38:19 but I want to leave the root, and now I going to
38:22 leave the root, but don't put middle band around it,
38:25 see the middle band is there to protect from
38:27 cracking and spinning in two because spinning
38:29 of two is there, are you with me so far?
38:32 So God says I want cut all the sinful stuff down,
38:36 but I want to leave the root and I want to leave
38:38 the in the earth because in the earth is
38:39 where the new trends are and then I'm going to
38:42 take care with the dew from heaven,
38:44 are you with me so far. See God is not want to
38:48 destroy us, he want to save us,
38:51 but he will cut you down, but he will leave the root
38:54 and he will put a band around us so that you
38:57 won't crack, you won't split, because he don't
39:01 want you to die, are you with me so far.
39:05 Nebuchadnezzar did all of that,
39:07 God cut him down to a beast, but yet he kept
39:12 the root and he announced that he keep the root,
39:15 he then put a band around it to protect it.
39:17 He said that's my tree, that's my stone and
39:22 because of that, I can take damage
39:25 Ghost to heaven, amen this good stuff in it.
39:33 And even though Nebuchadnezzar was
39:35 a knucklehead, God so fair that he needed
39:40 to save him. God wants to cut away the sin
39:46 from our lives. He cut all my anger, my prior,
39:51 my lack of faithfulness, my lack of willingness,
39:55 he cut all that down while I was thread
39:57 with 15 years in a prison. He says I got to get that
40:00 boy right there, I was I used to tearful Jesus
40:04 is a white man for a white of full what a black Jesus
40:09 there are you know I'm radical.
40:11 I would start turning focus the Bible is win by
40:14 Shakespeare I said think that all pastors
40:20 and preaches were pimps, look at me now.
40:23 I told you God got a sense of humor, amen.
40:28 I just knew that what was in this word wasn't true.
40:34 And he says he cut this boy down, but I must,
40:38 I must save the root, because there are
40:40 something that I see him that he don't
40:41 see in himself, someone jump him down all the
40:45 way to the ground but then I'm going to feed him.
40:49 I'm going to read to him. I'm going to send him
40:52 away to a small school in South Dakota
40:55 called Missionka. I'm going to convert him.
41:00 I'm going go to teach him how to love everybody
41:03 and not just one body. God wanted to cut all
41:09 this down so that the man can sprout again.
41:12 Go to Job chapter 14, Job is the before psalms,
41:16 Job come along with me Job, Job are you with me
41:20 so far. Oh, oh, we should had a what V8.
41:24 Job 14, Job 14, Job 14, verse 4, are you there amen.
41:40 The Bible says, who can bring a clean thing out
41:43 of an unclean, no one. Seeing his days are
41:47 determined, the number of his months are with thee,
41:49 that has point his bounds that he cannot pass;
41:53 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall
41:56 accomplish, as an hireling his day.
41:58 Here is what I want you to pay attention to,
42:00 For there is hope, for there is hope of what,
42:04 of a tree, if it be cut down, Lord have mercy,
42:08 Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy that it
42:12 what it will sprout again, he has got so what
42:16 that the tree that cut out, God says I need to sprout
42:18 it again so it can be my tree see you
42:20 and I have grown out trees. We've grown a tree where
42:24 we wanted to and because of that our
42:26 lives is not going to where we wanted to go.
42:28 So if you can put a stamp on it,
42:30 it would be pastor Jackson's tree,
42:32 but it needs to be God's tree.
42:34 So he says, I'll cut it down for the whole prove
42:39 that it would what it will sprout again
42:41 and when it's sprout again this time gets
42:44 losing control. Jesus anything control
42:47 because then he can hang on the top of it my tree,
42:51 only for me. Go back to Daniel chapter 4,
42:55 go back to Daniel chapter 4 we can much to a close,
42:57 Daniel chapter 4, this is what folk in Africa,
43:01 need Bibles, so they can get what you got they
43:05 can see themselves perhaps as beast to come again
43:10 and get there and send their same as band,
43:13 are you with me so far. Daniel chapter 4,
43:16 for seven years this brother was a beast
43:20 and unfortunately some of us would have to go
43:22 through trials and tribulation for seven
43:24 long years, until God gets our attention.
43:28 Now hope it doesn't happen, but if it happens
43:31 then he is in control, amen. My wife and I we have
43:35 three kids. Oldest daughter is a singer
43:38 in high school, our oldest boy is in 8th grade
43:43 and our youngest one is in 2nd grade
43:47 and my wife and I, we have family devotion
43:50 we have prayer, and we explain to them,
43:52 if you don't have an experience with Jesus
43:55 of what, experience with Jesus, you are reading
43:59 to be meaningless. And you will leave this house
44:04 and become a beast. And if God has to take
44:07 him down the road and back, we know he will.
44:14 Some of us have to go through the fiery trials
44:16 to be beast. And for some of us it takes
44:21 years you know I've been in my church
44:22 Detroit Northwest for a year and I'm watched
44:25 in so many of the kids left the church as teenagers
44:28 began to comeback and then when their listen
44:30 to the horror stories of how they lived,
44:33 I said this only by God's grace that you just still
44:35 alive. You know the story that our children
44:39 go through and they leave God's church.
44:42 And they come back in the horror stories as there,
44:44 so young people don't leave, because you will
44:48 become a beast, but you can be a beast
44:51 and appear too. Daniel chapter 4 verse 37,
44:59 excuse me I'm starting verse 34, he says at
45:05 the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar
45:07 lifted up my eyes unto heaven,
45:10 and my understanding returned unto me,
45:13 and I blessed the most High God,
45:15 and I praised and honored him that lives forever,
45:18 whose dominion is an everlasting dominion,
45:21 and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
45:26 excuse me, And all the inhabitants of the earth
45:28 are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according
45:31 to his will in the army of heaven,
45:33 and among the inhabitants of the earth:
45:34 and none can stay his hand, or say unto him,
45:37 what doest thou? At the same time Lord
45:41 have mercy, my reason my mind returned unto me;
45:45 and for the glory of my kingdom,
45:48 my honor and brightness returned unto me;
45:51 and my counselors and my Lords sought unto me;
45:54 and I was established in my kingdom,
45:56 and excellent majesty was added unto me.
45:59 Now I Nebuchadnezzar, the hard hated doeth praise
46:04 and extol and honor the King of heaven,
46:07 all whose works are truth, and his ways justice:
46:12 and those that walk in pride he is able to what
46:15 amen, it took him seven years to realize that.
46:21 It took him seven years to finally acknowledge
46:24 that God was who he says he was.
46:27 Seven years, seven long years,
46:34 but he had to come back to the word of God
46:36 in order to find, who God is. There is a beast
46:42 in all of us, if we don't have our V8;
46:47 this is the V8 that you need to eat in drink
46:53 every day. Ezekiel said I eat it and it was good
46:58 to my belly. What about you? I want to tell you a
47:05 story of mount climbers, three mount, four mount
47:08 climbers. The four friends one day
47:12 decided they go on to climb as high in huge
47:15 mountain. In the midst of climb at this mountain,
47:20 it was competitive and so they climb the mountain
47:27 by climbing and then it started to get dark
47:31 outside and that's it get dark outside on
47:36 this particular night the cloud it was very cloudy,
47:41 the stars did not show, the light, the moon was
47:45 not visible, it was very, very, very dark.
47:50 And so as they began to go up higher three
47:55 of them friend says hey we just stop
47:58 and camp here for tonight, but see there
48:01 is always one in the bunch who is gonna to
48:03 do what they want to do anyway.
48:05 He decided you know what, I'm getting to
48:07 the top you guys are some girls.
48:11 So they decided, the three friends decided
48:13 to camp for the night and they felt that
48:14 well just finished in the morning it's not that
48:17 serious but no, no, no not this one,
48:19 this one decided he is going to keep going,
48:22 because he has a point to prove
48:24 and he is climbing away and it's dark it's so dark
48:28 he can't even see his hand before his face,
48:30 but he says oh I got to get to this top.
48:32 I got to get high these guys are some losers.
48:36 So he is climbing away he is getting arrogant
48:39 he is so prideful and he is climbing away
48:41 and all of the sudden he lunges out to put
48:44 his jabbing whatever it is called any he looses
48:49 and all of a sudden he began to fall
48:52 and he has fallen, he is screaming in the
48:53 midst of the fog, Lord help me Lord save me
48:56 Lord help me help me save me, Lord help me help me
48:59 help me save me, save me Lord help me please
49:01 don't let me die and he is screaming in all and all,
49:03 help, help, help, and all of the sudden
49:04 he remember his safety items are left
49:08 and he swinging in the air and out of no
49:14 where he hears voice and the voice says cut
49:18 the rope. So he thinks he is delirious
49:22 because he knew he has fallen so far down
49:24 he hears this voice cut the rope right now,
49:26 if I cut this rope he didn't trying to feel,
49:29 nothing there. He hears the voice again cut the
49:35 rope. He says listen I must be delusional
49:42 there is no way I'm gonna to cut this rope,
49:45 no way at all. The next morning his friends get up
49:52 they're looking for their friend,
49:54 he is no where to be found. So they run to the local
49:58 park ranger and they tell them the story
50:01 he sends all alerts and began looking for the
50:03 friend and they are desperately looking
50:05 for him because he got to understand is
50:07 real coldest night and they are looking for him,
50:10 looking for him, they can't find him and then
50:13 all of the sudden park ranger calls them
50:14 and said, guys I found your friend.
50:20 He is not looking too good, so as friends all came,
50:23 they huddled around him and they just
50:28 stayed as he lay there stay less.
50:33 The thing that destructive park ranger is not that
50:39 he die. Is the fact that if he would have cut
50:44 the rope he was only two feet from the ground,
50:49 two feet from the ground could have save his life,
50:53 but because he didn't want to listen to God's voice,
50:56 because he didn't want to listen to God's word,
50:58 he couldn't know to cut the rope? Isaiah 30 says,
51:03 that he speaks to us and tell us this is the
51:06 way go ye in it, if you don't listen to his voice
51:11 and cut whatever rope is in your life you will be a
51:15 beast soon. And that's how we have the word,
51:18 that's the other transformed our lives
51:21 and transform our hearts, amen.
51:25 Because the word tells me to cut down the
51:27 rope the word tells me to cut it out my life,
51:30 so that I won't become beast.
51:35 Now I don't about you but I don't want to
51:36 be like Nebuchadnezzar. I was faced 15 years of
51:39 prison. No way in Kentucky that I want to see anything
51:43 like that, but some of you have not cut the rope
51:47 in here and God has holding back the beast from coming
51:51 out, but you are constantly feeding the beast
51:55 and God has died to kill the beast.
51:59 John 15 says if you abide in me and I'm in you,
52:04 was to rest you'll bear a fruit, but if you don't
52:07 abide in me, you can't do anything.
52:10 We have to learn to cut the rope.
52:13 I didn't cut the rope until God send me away
52:18 to mission college and I didn't realize
52:21 how racist I was, how prejudice I was,
52:23 even in the church, until God set me down
52:26 and abide and I looked as though I was a paranormal
52:31 view of a TV and he began to show me my life.
52:33 He show me how I was treating my wife,
52:35 he showed me how I was treating my children.
52:37 He showed me how I was treating his folks,
52:39 and I was like no, I must be dreaming
52:43 and I'm sitting to my bed, waiting for classes
52:46 to start and I'm looking at it and everything
52:49 I've ever done was on this screen like you seen
52:51 on this screen now. And you says you got a
52:54 change before you leave this place,
52:57 that very day I get down on my knees
53:01 and I asked God to forgive me.
53:03 He said don't start with me, start with your wife,
53:06 start with your children, start with those who hurt
53:09 and didn't come to me and I did exactly that.
53:13 And when I left that valley with Mount Lassen
53:15 in Valley, the city boy, whole different person
53:20 from when I went. And I was terrible before I left,
53:26 but you can tell me nothing, but I have to cut
53:29 something and as me there are three things
53:35 that we deal with self, Satan and sin.
53:38 Self, Satan, and sin and God need you
53:42 and I to cut all of the mounts today.
53:45 He didn't give us Nebuchadnezzar just,
53:48 oh that's a nice story to you in church
53:50 and that he tells and make it so you can laugh
53:52 about in the chocolate factory God made that
53:55 to show you point and the point is where you and I
53:58 would be without him. If, we don't take his words
54:03 seriously, there is lot of beast running out of here
54:07 and you and I maybe one of them and so as we have
54:11 had pray you need to tell God in your heart.
54:16 How you've been a bear, how you've been a lion,
54:20 how you've been a cheetah, how you've been a raccoon,
54:24 how you've been a wolf, how you've been a mouse,
54:28 how you've been an elephant, how you've been a rat,
54:32 how you've been a cockroach, how you've been one of
54:39 the worst animals ever and he is there for you,
54:42 the same as he was with Nebuchadnezzar.
54:45 It's time to be honest with God and once
54:49 we become honest with God, God there can working
54:53 in our light Nebuchadnezzar was honest,
54:56 but brother and sisters look what he had to go
54:58 through in order to get there is that something
55:00 you want. I know I don't and I don't want to for
55:04 you so as I kneel I'm hoping you will kneel
55:07 and I'm hoping you will surrender yourself to God
55:10 right now, because you don't know what
55:13 you make turn out to be. You may be like my friends,
55:17 siblings, who has HIV or you maybe some female
55:22 who has babies but two different daddies
55:24 and none of them in your life you may lose
55:26 your Job who knows, but the beast will come out,
55:30 you may go pastor one day
55:35 oh, oh I should to have my V8, will you kneel with me.
55:45 My father in heaven, what the joy it is to know that
55:52 your word is true, but Lord I pray today for all
55:56 of us that there is a beast working in us
56:00 and the beast comes up when we have not had
56:03 our V8 our word of God, to transform us, to hold us,
56:07 to keep us and I pray today that you will
56:12 kill the beast in our lives that your blood
56:15 would drown and completely, so that his ugly head never
56:18 again arise again that someone he who are
56:20 struggling. Lord you direct them to where they need
56:22 to go, so that it can be well said at the end
56:26 that is well with your soul thank you,
56:29 thank you Jesus for loving us.
56:31 We pray this prayer in Jesus name for our savior, amen.


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