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00:00If you count it, let me see you again And if you know it, let me see you leap for joy
00:12Rejoice if you count it, rejoice if you count it
00:18You made it, you made it, you made it, you made it, you made it
00:26If you count it, begin to shout, speak in tongues, clap your hands, clue your tails
00:34If you know it, you've got it, listen
00:38If you count it, let me see you again
00:44When the devil says no, you're dead
00:53You've got it, you've got it, you've got it, you've got it
01:03Through the torment, through the pressure, through the headache, through the heartache
01:09Through the pain, through the suffering, through the pessimism and rejection
01:16You've got it, you've got it
01:19You are not a victim, but you are a victor
01:25Through your struggle, through your trial, through your struggle, through your trial
01:32You've got it, you've got it, count the body, you've got it, count the body, you've got it
01:42If you count it, let me see you again
01:48When the devil says no, you're dead
02:00I said you've got it, you've got it, count the body, you've got it
02:10Tell your struggle, you've got it, count that disease, count that disease
02:16Tell your cancer, tell your struggle, count that beating
02:21Tell your issue, tell your mama, tell your friend, tell your mother
02:27Say I've got it, tell your drug, tell your addiction, tell your addiction
02:34I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, count the body, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it
03:04I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, count the body, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it
03:12I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, count the body, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it
03:20I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, count the body, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it
03:29I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, count the body, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it
03:37I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, count the body, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it
03:45I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, count the body, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it
03:53Oh, oh
04:24Oh, yeah
04:28Oh, yeah
04:35Do me a favor
04:37Clap now, people say, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it
04:42One single verse constitutes the framework for our semantic time together on this kaya weekend
04:50Come as you are, our team affectionately called it Kaya Weekend
04:54We'll do it every Sunday, second Sunday in September
04:57A lot of new people moving to Cleveland, Northeast Ohio
05:00It's a good Sunday to welcome people whose kids are in school looking for a new church
05:05And it's a great idea, wonderful people
05:08Thank you for being here
05:10Come to me
05:12Matthew 11 verse 28
05:15Come to me, all you that are akiyo
05:21Yeah, yeah
05:22Come to me, all you that labor, akiyo
05:27And are heavy laid done, fatizo in the Greek
05:33Wow, remember that, take a mental note
05:35Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laid done
05:41And I will give you rest
05:44I like Eugene Peterson's message version here
05:48Are you tired?
05:50Are you worn out?
05:53Burned out on religion?
05:56Come to me and you will recover your life
06:01I'll show you how to take a real rest
06:06Yeah, Matthew 11 verse 28, God's word version and message version
06:11Do me a favor, look down your row both ways and tell them
06:14You're doing too much
06:15Go ahead, tell them you're doing too much
06:19Come on, tell them you're doing too much
06:21You're doing too much
06:22You may take your seat
06:24You're doing too much
06:26You're doing too much
06:27This versatile phrase, you're doing too much
06:30Has embedded itself in our culture, conversation and communication
06:37This versatile phrase, you're doing too much
06:39Has embedded itself in our culture, conversation and communication
06:45Before I left for sabbatical, this has never happened
06:47Normally, I'm on sabbatical when God speaks to me about what I'm going to preach when I get back
06:52Normally, it's after I've had some water and some time to ease my mind
06:57That God gives me what to preach when I get back
06:59For the first time in a quarter century, God gave me my comeback sermon before I left
07:05Before I left, he gave me my comeback series
07:08I told the team, be ready when I get back
07:10Because I'm starting a new series called On Kaya Weekend, You're Doing Too Much
07:15Pastor, where did it come from?
07:16Everywhere
07:17I kept hearing it on Instagram and social media and Facebook and TikTok
07:21Every place I've turned, this phrase has embedded itself in our contemporary culture and conversation
07:27You're doing too much
07:28Somebody got on Too Many Colors with their outfit
07:31Girl, you are doing too much with that outfit
07:33Yeah, somebody playing too much
07:35You just stop and say, you're doing too much
07:37Stop
07:38Even musicians will tell you, there's a such thing as playing too much on your instrument
07:42Less is better
07:43They'll look at the brother in the band and say, bro, you're doing too much
07:46And as though that wasn't enough, God gave confirmation of the revelation
07:51Not in prayer, but at Beachwood Mall in Hype Tennis Shoe Spot
07:55I'm there yesterday because we decided to go all over Cleveland
07:59And just witness and give out cards and invite people to Kaya Weekend
08:03Come as you are weekend
08:04And so I went with the young people to Beachwood Mall
08:06I go up in Hype Tennis Shoe Spot
08:08There's this little girl sitting next to her brother on the bench
08:11They chilling, waiting on their mother to get finished
08:13And the little boy kept messing with the sister's iPad
08:16She said, stop, you're doing too much
08:18I said, go on and preach, girl
08:20I promise
08:21She said, stop, you're doing too much
08:22It hit me, you're doing too much
08:25What does this have to do with Kaya Weekend?
08:27Let's see if I can make it applicable to St. Ann's Center
08:30To those who are here for the first time and you need Christ in your life
08:34Some of you think you gotta do this and that to connect with Christ
08:38You're doing too much
08:40You think you gotta be perfect and get yourself together
08:42I've been saying it for 25 years
08:44Help me say it one more time
08:45Look at somebody and say, you can't get yourself together
08:47Go ahead
08:48God gotta get you together
08:51And so you don't have to pay your tithes for 10 weeks
08:54And cook chicken in the kitchen
08:56And do 50 push-ups to come to Christ
08:58Jesus paid it all
09:00And all you have to do is receive Him as your personal Savior
09:03And you can be saved today
09:05Let's not grapple about your issues
09:08We all got them
09:09You can come to Him
09:10But everybody here don't need Jesus
09:11That's the challenge with a church 25 years old
09:14You got people here for the first time
09:15You got people been here for a long time
09:17They want meat
09:18Some need semilac
09:19Others need steak
09:20At the same time
09:21Let me talk to people who have been saved for a long time
09:24Been at this church 10 years, 15 years
09:26Some of y'all doing too much
09:28When I say doing too much
09:30You're doing stuff God did not call you to do
09:33And it's aging you
09:35And grading you
09:37And making you sick and weak
09:39Because you feel responsible for everybody
09:42Everybody that won't do right in your family
09:44You gotta be superwoman
09:45You're trying to help people that don't even want to help themselves
09:48You're taking on stuff that your husband should be taking
09:50You're taking on stuff that your grown kids should be doing for themselves
09:53And next thing you know
09:54You'll be dead
09:55And they'll still be in the bed with the person they with
09:57Can I talk to somebody and tell you
09:59Be careful
10:00Because some of you are doing too much
10:02The book of Hebrews
10:04Come next Sunday
10:05I gotta rush today
10:06It's a different kind of weekend
10:07Help your pastor
10:08A lot of first time beautiful guests today
10:11So give me some latitude
10:12Let's jump in it deep next week
10:13But the book of Hebrews says
10:15We have now entered into His rest
10:18Whatever else Christianity should be
10:20It is rest
10:22Rest does not mean no issues
10:24Rest don't mean crazy kids won't do something
10:26Rest don't mean perfect marriage
10:28Rest don't mean a single sister don't get lonely sometimes
10:31Rest don't mean you not tripping on nothing no time
10:34But resting in Christ means you are calm more than you crazy
10:39Resting in Christ is a kind of spiritual wusha
10:42People around you can sense the God on you
10:45And this inner peace
10:47You not fussing and tripping
10:49Be careful when the glass always half empty
10:52It's never half full
10:53Be careful when you always waiting on the bottom to drop
10:56You meet somebody nice
10:57Something must be wrong with him
10:58He gay, he married, he some
10:59Girl just date the man
11:01Rest in it
11:02If God has given it to you
11:04It will work out
11:06This particular Matthew in text
11:09Is just one of my favorites
11:11It just blesses me cognitively
11:14It does because it is in Matthew 11
11:16That we see the story of John the baptizer
11:20You gonna have to read it a little later
11:22I think many of you know that John was Jesus' cousin
11:26Remember the immaculate conception
11:29When Mary got pregnant
11:31And the angel said go see your cousin Elizabeth
11:34Because she's six months pregnant already
11:36Be careful when you hanging with people
11:38Who keep aborting their vision
11:40Because I want you to catch this
11:42I need to hang around with somebody as pregnant as me
11:45The Bible says she went to see Elizabeth
11:48And Elizabeth was already pregnant in her old age
11:51Your Bible says when John inside her stomach
11:55Heard that Jesus was on the way
11:57What the Bible say everybody
11:58He did what?
11:59Leaf in her stomach
12:01And so this is John the baptizer
12:03Let me lay some foundation
12:05Don't assume everybody grew up in Sunday school
12:08They didn't
12:09That's not good preaching
12:10You gotta preach to the whole crowd
12:11John is Jesus' cousin
12:13First cousin, second cousin, third cousin
12:14I don't know
12:15I do know they are cousins
12:17And your Bible says that
12:19John leaped inside of his mother Elizabeth's stomach
12:23When he found out his cousin Jesus the Savior was on the way
12:25I wish the Bible told me what happened
12:28When Jesus was 7, 8, 9, and 10
12:31We see him as a baby
12:32Next time we see him he's 12
12:34Next time we see him he's about 30
12:36I wonder what happened with the two cousins
12:38When they were playing hang go seek
12:41Y'all missed it praise God
12:43Can you imagine playing hang go seek with Jesus
12:46You never would have won that game
12:49Praise God, amen
12:50And can I tell you the Bible says
12:52That John is the forerunner for Jesus
12:55Come here, some of you know this
12:56Remember John was baptizing
12:58And Jesus walked up on the Jordan
13:01And John stopped and said
13:02Oh my goodness, here's one
13:04I'm not even worthy to tie his shoes
13:07I must decrease so he can increase
13:10John understands his calling
13:13Is to set the way for Christ
13:15I'm laying some foundation right quick
13:17I'll do better next week
13:19I got to hurry today, look at me
13:21This same John is now in the joint
13:25He's in prison, he is
13:27In Machias, Machias
13:30You don't care about that
13:31But the historian Josephus
13:33Bishop Joy tonight, 50 years
13:35His mama named him after the Jewish historian Josephus
13:38So we get some stuff from the Bible
13:40A lot of what happened
13:41We get from Jewish historians
13:43Named Josephus and others
13:44Who wrote down what was happening at the time
13:46So Josephus tells us
13:48There was this spot that was made as a prison
13:51And a fortress where Herod the king hung out
13:55Herod is this king who's not popular
13:58He doesn't fear God, he's a trip
14:01He married his brother's wife
14:05Y'all got to catch this, praise God
14:06He got on, he married Philip's wife
14:09Which was wrong
14:10And John the Baptist preached against him
14:13And said you should not be marrying this man's wife
14:17It was crazy y'all
14:18What does Herod do?
14:20Locks him up in the joint
14:22He's been there for a year
14:24Getting ready to get his head cut off
14:27And Jesus has not come to get him
14:30Now all that was my introduction
14:32Somebody say now the sermon starts, praise God, amen
14:35That's why your Bible says
14:36In verses 2 and 3, it's on the screen
14:38You got your Bible, look at it
14:39I want you to catch this
14:40Your Bible says
14:41And when John had heard in prison
14:45About the works of Christ
14:46He sent Jesus to his disciples
14:48He sent two of his disciples
14:50And said to him
14:51Are you the coming one?
14:53Or should we look for another?
14:55Now y'all just missed that
14:57John has been in the joint for a year
15:00Jesus has not come to get him
15:03John is starting to trip
15:06And John is like
15:07First of all, you're supposed to be Christ
15:09And you're my cousin
15:11Can you put something on a brother's books or something?
15:14I mean, you're supposed to be Jesus
15:17And you have not come to get me
15:18Y'all missed it
15:19If you knew how good this was
15:21You shout in advance
15:23Because I want you to see what the Bible says
15:25The Bible says that Jesus said about John
15:27In the next verse
15:28There's been nobody greater in the world ever
15:32Than John the Baptist
15:33Watch this
15:34I tell you the truth
15:35Of all who have ever lived
15:37There is none greater
15:39Y'all look at Pastor
15:40There is none greater than John the Baptist
15:42That includes Billy Graham
15:43That includes the Apostle Paul
15:44Martin Luther King
15:45Your sweet grandmama
15:46Who grew up in church
15:47Took you to church
15:48Nobody ever
15:49None of the patriarchs
15:50Not Moses
15:51None of them Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
15:52Nobody was greater than
15:54If Jesus called you to go
15:57You to go
15:59I need y'all to catch this
16:01From now on
16:02Whenever you're reading your Bible
16:03Don't just call him John the Baptist
16:04Call him goat John
16:06If Jesus called you to go
16:08You to goat
16:09He says the greatest of all time
16:11Pastor, why are you spending so much time here?
16:13Because that didn't depress me
16:15That impressed me
16:17That made me feel better
16:18Are you telling me
16:19That the person who Jesus said
16:22Is the greatest person that ever lived
16:24Is now doubting?
16:27Are you telling me
16:28That the person Jesus calls the goat
16:30Is now questioning his sovereignty?
16:33Because John sent his disciples
16:35And says go ask Jesus
16:37Is he the one?
16:39Or should we be waiting on somebody else?
16:41Y'all just missed this
16:42Is he the one?
16:43Because even though John loved Jesus
16:46Even though John is the greatest of all time
16:49He had a bad year
16:51I feel like talking to somebody
16:54Who people think that you lost your faith completely
16:57Because you've been in a bad season
16:59Sometimes I'm just in a season
17:01And my faith can falter
17:03My faith can fail me
17:05The enemy be attacking my faith
17:07My faith can attenuate
17:09And don't question my life
17:11Because I'm falling in this season
17:13It does not mean I don't love God
17:15I just had a rough year
17:16I come to talk to somebody
17:17Everybody whose life is perfect
17:19I'll preach to you next Sunday
17:20Called Perfect People Weekend
17:22But to everybody that had a rough season
17:24Or a rough few months
17:25And the devil trying to tell you
17:27You're not the truth
17:28The devil is a lie
17:29If John
17:32If John
17:33Who is the epitome of humility
17:35Who is the essence of asceticism
17:38If his faith can fail
17:39I know mine can too
17:40Y'all got to catch this
17:42Find out
17:43Because I'm in here tripping
17:44I don't know
17:45Everybody's life in this room is not perfect
17:48There's some believers who tripping
17:50You don't believe me
17:51There's some single people
17:52Who doing everything right
17:54And cannot quite find the right person
17:56Only 26% of black women get proposed to
17:58Some of you thinking I'm keeping myself
18:00I could be acting crazy
18:01And I want God to show up and help me now
18:04There's some people raise your kids right
18:05And they doing everything wrong
18:07There's some of you whose parents betrayed you
18:09Not there for you
18:10And the enemy can mess with your mind and your marriage
18:12And God sent you to church today to hear
18:14That just because your faith be tripping
18:16Don't mean you a trip
18:19Because I want you to see
18:21Let's have church
18:22Let's turn up y'all
18:23We got to baptize
18:24Because the next verse says
18:25Instead of Jesus going to see John
18:28And put some money on his books
18:30Jesus told his boys
18:32Go tell John
18:34What's going on
18:35It's time to turn up
18:36He says go tell John
18:37That the blind see
18:39The lame walk
18:41The lepers are cleansed
18:43The dead are raised
18:44If you knew what I just said
18:45You'd be jumping all over this place
18:47He says go tell John
18:49Why he's in trouble
18:51I'm still working miracles for other people
18:54I want to figure out how mature you are
18:57I'm going to figure out what kind of church I got
18:59I'm going to figure out
19:00Are you really spirit filled
19:02When I make this next statement
19:03I need some people mature enough
19:05That will praise God
19:06When everybody getting blessed but you
19:11I need some people
19:13That will shout at a wedding
19:14And you ain't even getting married
19:16I need some people that will praise God
19:18For a house you can't afford
19:19But you'll thank God
19:20That your cousin got it
19:21I need some people
19:22That will say if God is blessing my neighbor
19:24That means he's in the neighborhood
19:26Can I get
19:27Can I get 50 people
19:29To slap somebody high five
19:31And say I'm glad you blessed
19:32Go ahead
19:36That's the wrong person
19:37No
19:38Mature Christianity
19:40Is when I can praise God
19:42When I'm not even getting what I want
19:44But I can still recognize his sovereignty
19:46And say maybe I'm in a season
19:49But God you're still God all by yourself
19:51I don't know why you won't come get me
19:54But I'm glad you came and got my sister
19:56I'm glad you delivered my brother
19:58I'm glad somebody got saved
20:00At the Word Church today
20:08I need a woman who's lonely
20:09To praise God for somebody else's husband
20:12I need somebody who broke
20:13To praise God that your neighbor
20:14Just got a raise
20:15I need somebody who's sick
20:17Who's sick in your body
20:18To praise God that somebody else
20:19Got healed on your road
20:21God says if you'll praise me
20:22For somebody else
20:23You never know when I'm gonna show up
20:25I gotta go y'all
20:26But can I get 30 people
20:27To praise God for a God
20:29That may not come when you want him
20:31But grandma said he's always
20:34I feel like
20:36I feel like preaching in my own church
20:38Y'all sit down
20:40Y'all sit down
20:41And so I want you to catch this
20:43And so the Bible says
20:45The Bible says that Jesus said
20:47Go tell my cousin
20:49With his goat status
20:51He's the truth
20:52Go tell John why his faith is faltering
20:55Why his faith is attenuating
20:57Go tell John even though
20:59It's not happening for him
21:01Because his cause in life
21:03And purpose was to be my forerunner
21:06Which means his life will be cut short
21:08But that does not mean
21:09I'm not blessing other people
21:11He says go tell him
21:13Watch this
21:14That the blind see
21:17Go tell him that the deaf hear
21:20Go tell him that the leopards are cleansed
21:24Go tell him that the dead are raised
21:28Let's go to seminary for two minutes
21:30Let's go to preacher school for two minutes
21:32And then come right back to church
21:33Because seminary students know
21:35There's this whole thing in terms of
21:37Arminianism
21:39Vis-a-vis Calvinism
21:41Two schools of theological thought and strength
21:43I won't go there
21:44Here's what I do want you to catch
21:45Here's the big picture
21:46There's continuous
21:47There's cessationist
21:49Cessationists believe
21:51That after the first century
21:53There are no more miracles
21:54There are no more tongues
21:56That those were in the first century
21:58To establish the church
22:00But we no longer need all that
22:02So there are no miracles today
22:04Tongues are not for today
22:06Prophecy is not for today
22:08Continuous believe
22:10That God can still do it right now
22:13So I think you know what kind of church we are
22:15Praise God
22:16We are a continuous church
22:18That said
22:19Come on let's think deeply for a minute
22:21Can we talk real
22:22You want a preacher to talk real
22:23Or just fluff stuff
22:24I'm going to keep it real
22:25I've been studying the Bible
22:26Like many brothers study sports centers
22:28Study your craft
22:29I've been studying the Bible
22:30For like three decades
22:31And I want to tell the truth
22:32I do not see
22:34The kind of outward miracles
22:37As much as I tend to read them
22:39In the New Testament
22:40In the New Testament
22:41It was like
22:42Get up
22:43Brother just get up with no legs
22:45See
22:46And then the one that I really love
22:48Is when the 5,000 people
22:4915,000 were hungry
22:51And Jesus took two fish
22:53Right
22:54And a few loaves of bread
22:55So I wanted to be like Jesus
22:56So down the way
22:57I went to the fish market
23:01And I bought a
23:02I bought a perch then
23:03And I said
23:04Multiply
23:08And I mean
23:09One bone came out the fish
23:10I said
23:11Lord Jesus
23:12Multiply
23:13Perch
23:14B
23:15Multiply
23:16Catfish
23:17Waiting
23:18Now
23:19Biscuit
23:20Bliss
23:23You know what the Holy Spirit told me
23:24I'm going y'all
23:25The Holy Spirit told me
23:26Tell your church
23:27Honestly
23:28There was a certain power
23:29In that first century
23:30Possibly because of
23:31A greater amount of faith
23:32He says
23:33I was present
23:34He says
23:35But tell them
23:36I'm still doing it
23:37I'm doing it now
23:38He says
23:39I know blind eyes could see
23:41He said
23:42But there are people in your church
23:43They got 20, 22
23:4420, 20 vision
23:45They're still blind
23:46He says
23:47I gave them vision
23:48Even though your eyes work
23:50Your vision didn't
23:51Can you praise God
23:52That your attractions have changed
23:55You know why
23:56He broke up with you
23:57Because you can see his behind now
23:59Y'all missed that
24:00Praise God
24:01If you knew what I just said
24:02You would have shouted
24:03Praise God
24:04Some people like you better blind
24:05Because they can manipulate you
24:08And they get their funky off
24:09By you needing them
24:11But touch somebody
24:12Go Teddy Pendergrass
24:1350 and over
24:14Slap somebody
24:15Say it don't hurt now
24:16Can I get 50 people
24:17Can I get 50 people
24:18That know that God can heal your mind
24:20And fix your vision
24:22He said
24:23Tell them
24:24That the lepers are cleansed
24:27Which means he cleaned me
24:28From the inside out
24:30And the dead are raised
24:32God has done some miracles
24:34In your life
24:37He says
24:38Go tell John
24:39I'm still moving
24:40I'm gone y'all
24:41I want to give y'all this
24:42Here's the part you grew up on
24:44He says
24:45As he's preaching
24:46He says
24:47Come unto me
24:49All you
24:51Who coppa ain't on
24:54All you
24:55Who labor
24:57The word there
24:58Is to take on
25:00More than you can carry
25:03Labor
25:04Labor
25:05Is when the weight is too strong
25:07There's a difference
25:08In the two Greek words
25:09Labor and lay done
25:11All you that labor
25:12And are heavy
25:13Lay done
25:14No
25:15Lay done
25:16Is baptism
25:17That is
25:18To have spiritual anxiety
25:20That is
25:21To have stuff in your brain
25:22That God don't want there
25:24That's why Philippians 4 says
25:25You decide what you think about
25:27Pastor it's hard to tell myself
25:29What to think
25:30So what is hard
25:31Life is hard
25:32Get over it
25:33I'm not thinking about that no more
25:35That has to be eradicated from my mind
25:38Because that's too heavy on me
25:41That has me tripping
25:43I fake myself into sadness
25:45When I think about my daddy and them
25:47And what my mama didn't do
25:49And who left me
25:50And what I didn't accomplish
25:51The devil is alive
25:52Jesus said
25:53All you that are out
25:55E-O
25:56And fatismo
25:58It is to carry too much
26:02He says
26:03Come to me
26:05I guess I'll jump to my series
26:08Here it is
26:09You doing too much
26:10Whatever else we're called to do
26:12Look at me on the left side
26:13We're called to get stuff done
26:15Get stuff done
26:17Don't die without getting stuff done
26:19Maximize your moment
26:21Bishop Jake says
26:22The scripture says
26:23Occupy till I come
26:24Occupy till I come
26:25Means get stuff done
26:26Pastor, you and Lady Vernon
26:27The school, the ministry
26:29Everything you're doing
26:30Wow, we'll be dead soon
26:31While we're alive
26:32We're going to maximize
26:33Every second of our life
26:34This is our moment to move
26:36Oh, don't hook up with nobody
26:38Who don't want to move
26:39Don't date nobody
26:40Who don't want to move
26:41It's too much money to get
26:42It's too much legacy to leave
26:44It's too many houses to buy
26:45Too much property to purchase
26:46Too much stuff to get done
26:48To be with people
26:49Who don't want to get nothing done
26:50So the Bible
26:51Matter of fact
26:52Your Bible says
26:54And whatever he does
26:56Shall prosper
26:58I don't want to sound like
26:59I'm contradicting myself
27:01The same Bible
27:03That talks about not overdoing it
27:05Clearly says
27:06Whatever he does
27:07Some of you
27:08Won't even give God nothing to bless
27:12You won't give him nothing to prosper
27:14That's why you're frustrated
27:15With some of your children
27:16Because you know how much is in them
27:17And you're like
27:18Give God something to put his hands on
27:20Give God something to bless
27:22But others of you
27:24Are doing too much
27:26And the purpose of this series
27:27Is to bless somebody
27:28And free you
27:29Over the next few weeks
27:30Because I speak 10 extra years
27:32To the end of your life
27:35Because stuff that's been stressing you
27:37You finna let it go
27:39You are called to certain things
27:41Two letters
27:42One word that changed my life
27:43Y'all ready?
27:44It's called no
27:48Oh y'all just missed that
27:49If you knew what I said
27:50I want you to say it out loud
27:51Say no
27:52Next time somebody calls you
27:53Can you help me Saturday?
27:54No
27:55Praise God
27:56Can you come by right quick?
27:57No
27:58You've been asleep all day
27:59Doing nothing
28:00Now you want me to bail you out
28:01While you've done nothing
28:02I've been trying to maximize stuff
28:03Can you give me $2?
28:04No
28:05Praise God
28:06I can't take on stuff
28:07God did not call me to take on
28:09Y'all ready?
28:10I want you to believe God
28:11For clarity of vision
28:14That you don't do nothing
28:15He don't want you to do
28:17That you don't take on more
28:18Than you should
28:20That you know
28:21Who to let go
28:22And who to keep
28:23That you know
28:24What's your responsibility
28:25And what's their responsibility
28:27So you don't go crazy
28:28Doing too much
28:29For people who won't do for themselves
28:31Or taking on spiritual anxiety
28:34Am I talking to anybody?
28:36Did you find yourself aging?
28:45So let me just
28:47Make a declaration
28:48As the set man of this house
28:49Lift your hand
28:50I decree and declare
28:51Vision and clarity over you
28:54That you shall only do
28:55What you've been called to do
28:57That God will show you
28:58What you're not supposed to do
28:59And who you're not supposed to be with
29:01And come on
29:02Receive that by faith
29:03In Jesus' name
29:06I bid you goodbye
29:07We gotta baptize
29:08Y'all ready?
29:09Here's the part
29:10That you learned
29:11In Sunday School 101
29:13Remember this?
29:14Take my yoke upon you
29:17Who grew up in church
29:18Raise your hand
29:19Remember that?
29:20Place my yoke over your shoulders
29:24And learn from me
29:26Because I'm gentle and humble
29:27I'm gone
29:28Watch this
29:29Place my yoke
29:30You grew up on King James
29:31Remember?
29:32Church people raise your hand
29:33Church kids, church kids
29:34Take my yoke upon you
29:36Right?
29:37Your Sunday School teacher
29:38Take my yoke upon you
29:39And learn of me
29:40Now you are 80 years old
29:41I got a question for you
29:42What's a yoke?
29:44Now how long have you been in church?
29:45What's a yoke?
29:46What's a yoke?
29:47You've been in church
29:48Since you were little
29:49What's a yoke?
29:5020 years
29:51What's a yoke?
29:52Let's unearth
29:53Let's unearth this
29:54Let's look at it
29:55Matter of fact
29:56I brought a yoke for you
29:57To see on the screen
29:58Take a look
29:59Take a look at these yokes
30:00Because I want you to catch this
30:01This is
30:02These are yokes
30:03They would put yokes
30:04Watch this
30:05On animals
30:06In order to pull
30:07In the same direction
30:08They would put a yoke
30:09On your shoulder
30:10Which then tied
30:11These two animals together
30:14Because if we both
30:15Put a yoke together
30:16I can't go one way
30:17While you going
30:18I'm looking for my smart class
30:19I'm back
30:20I'm back
30:21I'm back
30:22I can't be going one way
30:23While you going another
30:24So it seems to me
30:25And I'm not the smartest person
30:26In the room
30:27But it seems to me
30:28That sweet Jesus
30:29Would have said
30:30Here's what I'm going to do
30:31I'm going to take this yoke
30:32Off you completely
30:33So you can just flow
30:34He didn't say that
30:35Because life
30:36Is filled with funk
30:37Don't join me
30:38I'm going to take this yoke
30:39Off you completely
30:40So you can just flow
30:41He didn't say that
30:42Because life
30:43Is filled with funk
30:44Don't join this church
30:45If you're looking for fake church
30:46That tells you
30:47Once you meet Jesus today
30:48I just had a bunch of people
30:50Get saved at nine o'clock
30:51I pulled them all in
30:52Like a football huddle
30:53And I was the quarterback
30:54A bunch of them
30:55Twenty, thirty of them
30:56I said come here y'all
30:57Look, this week
30:58The devil going to tell you
30:59You didn't mean it
31:00This week
31:01Something going to jump off
31:02In your life
31:03And you'll look up
31:04And you're not here next week
31:05I said when it happens
31:06Remember who you yoked to
31:10Y'all didn't catch this
31:12It seems to me
31:13That Jesus would have said
31:15I'm going to take your yoke off you
31:17He said that's not life
31:19In this life
31:20You will have trials
31:21And tribulations
31:23But be of good cheer
31:24For I have overcome the world
31:26So here's what he says
31:27You going to be yoked to something
31:30So what I suggest
31:31Is you yoke to me
31:34Now what they would do with a yoke
31:36They put a strong animal
31:39With a weaker animal
31:42The purpose of that
31:43Was so that the stronger animal
31:46Could kind of guide
31:48And take most of the weight
31:50Off the younger animal
31:52While keeping the younger animal
31:54Going in the same direction
31:56The reason why God sent you
31:58To Caia weekend
31:59Is because your cousins love you
32:01But they going in the wrong direction
32:04Y'all got to catch this
32:06I got some bros from down the way
32:08Some of you do too
32:09You call them right now
32:10Some of your friends
32:11They'll come up here
32:12And tear this church up
32:13To get you out of here
32:16The issue is
32:17They got good hearts
32:18But the wrong direction
32:20So as much as you love them
32:21You can't yoke to them
32:23You got to be careful
32:24Who you yoke
32:25Y'all not catching this
32:26You got to be careful
32:27Who you yoke to
32:28He says here's what I want you to do
32:30Take my yoke upon you
32:31So put one side on me
32:33And put the other side on you
32:35And you got to be careful
32:37That's why your Bible says
32:38And be not unequally
32:39Unequally
32:44The problem is
32:45You can't date somebody
32:47That's sexy but not spiritual
32:49Cause you pulling one way
32:52But they pulling
32:54A marriage can't work
32:55If I'm trying to go this way
32:58But you going
32:59Because both of us are yoked together
33:01Which means we need to flow
33:03In the same spirit
33:04And flow at the same church
33:06And flow in the same word
33:08Or life is too hard
33:11Cause my neck always hurt
33:14The Lord told me to tell you
33:15Be careful with who you get yoked
33:18Or you'll get choked
33:20Y'all just catch this
33:25I can't
33:27I can't
33:28I can't just hook up with anybody
33:32Because you spend more time
33:33Out the bed than you do in it
33:36All single people
33:37You spend more time
33:38Out the bed than you do in it
33:40And once that little
33:41Sex thing is over
33:42And you realize
33:43Y'all pulling in different directions
33:45Now y'all calling the church
33:46Saying save us
33:48Cause I'm trying to go this way
33:50And some of you with somebody
33:51That's good in the bed
33:52But not for your head
33:53And you going this way
33:55And they got you all messed up
33:56Because of a feeling
33:58But God sent you to Kaya Weekend
34:00Because he says
34:01I'm going to take the yoke off them
34:03And place it on me
34:05I'm going to place
34:06The other part on you
34:07That's why the old folks said
34:08Where you lead me
34:09I feel like a preacher
34:11I will follow
34:12I'll go with him
34:13Is there anybody
34:14That would say
34:15God take me
34:16And guide me
34:17And order my steps
34:18And lead me
34:24Oh sookie sookie
34:25My time gone
34:26Y'all bored?
34:28Yeah we gotta go watch the game
34:29Here's the part
34:31You also grew up on
34:33He says in King James
34:34Remember this
34:35Take my yoke upon you
34:37For my burden is
34:40My burden is light
34:42I feel like preaching
34:43My burden is light
34:45Let me try this one more time
34:46He says
34:47Yoke up with me
34:49And I'll guide you
34:50My burden is light
34:51I heard somebody
34:52Way back there say
34:54You must don't know me like that
34:56Because my burden is not light
34:58You have no idea
34:59The bills on the table
35:00Who did not raise me
35:01Who was supposed to
35:03Who I got a child by
35:04What's happening in my life
35:05Who I said I'd do to
35:06But they don't
35:08You have no idea
35:09What I'm struggling with in my body
35:11And you gonna call it light
35:13That's almost insensitive pastor
35:15That's almost derogatory
35:16To tell me my stuff is light
35:18When it's driving me crazy
35:19That's why you better
35:20Give yoke to Jesus
35:21Because Jesus says
35:22Once your yoke to me
35:24Was heavy to everybody else
35:26It's not that it's not heavy
35:28I'm just carrying most of it
35:31I wish I had five people
35:32I wish I had five people
35:34That's why 2 Corinthians 4 and 17 says
35:36This temporary light affliction
35:38Y'all didn't shout
35:39This temporary light affliction
35:41This momentary light affliction
35:43Y'all missed it
35:44How you gonna call my stuff light
35:46He says because when you compare
35:47What you gonna get
35:49To what you going through now
35:51You can stop and say
35:52Hallelujah anyhow
35:53Can I get 50 people
35:55In this crowded church
35:57To start praising God
35:58For light affliction
36:00Do me a favor
36:01In five minutes
36:02Touch somebody and say
36:03I'm coming out of this
36:06I wish I had somebody
36:07That would have church with me
36:08And don't wait
36:09Till the battle is over
36:10But start to shout right now
36:12And praise God
36:13That the devil thought
36:14He would drive me crazy
36:15But he needs to know
36:16I'm hooked up with Jesus
36:18I'm connected to Christ
36:19And the cross
36:20And God's not gonna let me
36:21Lose my mind
36:22Cause he won't put more on me
36:28I'm sorry
36:29Shake three people's hands
36:30You can make it baby
36:31You can make it
36:38I'm done
36:39I'll see y'all next time
36:41Come unto me
36:42All you that labor
36:44And are heavy laden
36:45And I will give you rest
36:47I will give you rest
36:49Somebody here
36:50Tired
36:52Let me tell y'all something
36:53I went out of town
36:54For a month
36:56And when I left
36:57Weed was illegal
37:00When I got back a month later
37:02Weed legal
37:04Which means in a few
37:05Years or so
37:06You'll be able to walk
37:07In the grocery store
37:08Let me get some wings
37:09And some weed
37:11Okay, y'all pray for me
37:12Amen
37:15I said weed
37:17And now we won't
37:18We won't
37:19We won't deal today
37:20With who should smoke weed
37:21And all that
37:22I don't smoke weed
37:23Why pastor?
37:24Because pastor
37:25But somebody else
37:26I don't smoke weed
37:27I don't smoke weed
37:28I don't smoke weed
37:29I don't smoke
37:30Because pastor
37:31But sometimes
37:32I have a lot on my mind
37:33And it be hurting
37:34Well y'all pray for me
37:35I feel like whatever
37:36I'm going through
37:37I'm supposed to hurt
37:40Y'all just missed that
37:41I
37:42Pastor
37:43But my mother passed
37:44Go on and feel that
37:46Pastor
37:47But I caught him doing something
37:48Go on and feel that
37:49Pastor
37:50But my daddy did not do nothing
37:51For me or my baby
37:52Go on and feel that
37:54I know y'all don't believe me
37:55Pastor
37:56But I saw him doing something
37:57That I never thought
37:58do on me and he did it, go on and feel that.
38:00Because what the devil doesn't want me to preach to you
38:02is that what seems like driving you crazy,
38:06he's using that to build you so that when the next thing
38:10comes up, because you endured affliction as a good soldier,
38:14second Timothy four, if you made it through that,
38:17let's go grandma, I don't believe he brought me this far,
38:20come on, to lead me right now.
38:22Can I preach to five people?
38:24So I don't want to smoke nothing that take my mind
38:28of what's supposed to build me.
38:31I need to feel it, I need to hold myself at night,
38:35I need to go through it, I'm sorry,
38:37touch somebody's head, because when I come out of this,
38:38go ahead, tell somebody, y'all not having church with me,
38:41when I come out of this, I know I'm crying right now,
38:43but when I come out of this, I shall come forth
38:45as pure gold, I need somebody that's in the middle of it
38:49with tears in your eyes, don't smoke it away,
38:53don't drink it away, don't sex it away,
38:56go on and feel it, and stick your chest out,
38:59and lean into it, and say God have your way,
39:02with tears in my eyes, I bless the Lord at all times,
39:06his praise.
39:07Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
39:18I told somebody, you shouldn't be smoking weed
39:22to get your mind off stuff, they said, oh no, pastor,
39:26I don't need that, I have the Holy Spirit.
39:31I take a little bit of weed, and brownies,
39:34and all kind of stuff, for medicinal reasons.
39:38Okay, you know what, if you knew what I, hold on.
39:43What you doing, pastor?
39:44I'm shouting for what I'm gonna say,
39:46y'all miss that praise God?
39:48Okay, wait a minute, no, no, the doctor prescribed this
39:52for medicinal purposes, medicine, prescription,
39:55y'all gotta catch this, medicinal medicine.
39:57I'm sorry, let's go home, let's baptize,
40:00but some people come to church to meet somebody,
40:02some people come to church to connect with people,
40:05some church, people just come just so they can
40:08network their business, but I'm sorry,
40:09lean on two people, say I'm here for medicinal reasons,
40:11go ahead, I wish I had somebody that would say,
40:15I come to church because only Jesus
40:18can take the pain away from me, I come to church
40:20because he's keeping me right now, I come to church
40:23because he made a way out of no way, I come to church
40:26because if it had not been for the Lord
40:28who was on my side, I come to church
40:30because he gives me peace that surpasses all understanding,
40:33I come to church because he gives me joy unspeakable,
40:36full of glory, can I get 50 people to start praising God
40:40for the last time, hit two people,
40:42say I'm here for medicinal reasons.
40:51Worship, George, George, worship, jump on, George,
40:53because I want y'all to catch this,
40:54this is gonna bless y'all life
40:56and I want y'all to catch this, look at me.
41:00The message version says, look at me,
41:02nobody moves, nobody get hurt, watch me.
41:07He says, are you tired?
41:11Are you worn out?
41:14Are you burned out on religion?
41:18Some people come from the streets,
41:19some people come from corporate America,
41:20some people come from seminaries, colleges, PhD programs,
41:24I'm a church boy, I almost got burnt out on religion.
41:28Yeah, pastor, why you so anti-regular church stuff
41:32from your dress to your flow?
41:34Because I'm not trying to be religious,
41:36I don't wanna be careful not to demonize the word religious,
41:39why don't you learn your scripture?
41:40Now James 1.27 says, pure religion is this,
41:44pure religion that you take care of the widows
41:46and take care of the orphans and do for those in need,
41:48so religion in and of itself is not bad,
41:51what the text means is religious stuff
41:53ain't got nothing to do with church.
41:56I grew up in a church, I mean this,
41:58on the door, I'm not lying, guys,
42:00some of you don't remember this,
42:02on the door was a sign that said,
42:04ladies, do not enter sanctuary with pants.
42:08Now what if that's all I got?
42:11Y'all not catching this.
42:13And then we sing in songs like Just As I Am.
42:18Either you gotta stop singing that song
42:20or take that sign down.
42:22And this is not the 80s, this is the 90s, early 2000s,
42:26a sign on the door that says women do not enter with pants
42:30because of a misappropriation
42:33and narrow, provincial, exegetical dig into Scripture,
42:38they thought pants mean you're dressing like a man.
42:42There are women pants, there are men's pants.
42:45Jesus wore something that looked like a dress,
42:47but that's what men wore at that time.
42:51Today I don't offer religion, I offer Jesus.
42:56It's not about clothes, it's about souls.