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00:30Somebody, somebody's season has changed. God's moving you to another dimension.
00:42In Ephesians 1 and 18 says, the eyes of your understanding being in light,
00:55that you may know what is the hope of his calling, the riches of the glory of
01:03his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power
01:11to us believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he brought in
01:17Christ when he raised him from the dead. I'm supposed, I'm told not to sweat in
01:27this eye, so I'm gonna do my best not to sweat in the eye, which means my sweat I
01:37better wipe it quickly. But I want to consummate, I want to close on this that
01:46we have been dealing with for quite some time in Bible class, and we broached the
01:52subject yesterday, and last Sunday that is, and the Lord moved for me to preach
02:00from this when I was out in Houston. He is praying that they know three things,
02:09and the first is what is the expectation of their calling, and what is, the Greek
02:20word here is tis, and it's not how great or really, it's really not of what kind,
02:31but it is actually the what is the reality of the hope that is extended
02:43because of the call. It doesn't matter how he calls you or where he calls you
02:50from, because all of us, whether we will admit it or not, and we actually have to
02:59admit it in order to receive what it is that he is giving. In order to receive
03:08what God is giving, you have to admit that you need it, and that without his
03:15power and without him endowing it, without him giving it, you actually can't
03:23get it. There are many avenues that God uses, very natural that God uses to
03:34get us what we need, natural avenues. In other words, right now we're sitting in
03:42heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and that is not because of the location. Wherever
03:52you are as a child of God, you are literally sitting in heavenly places
04:00because of his call. Now we have to understand this, that when God calls, it
04:10supersedes anything and everything that you were a part of, and if you were true
04:18about it, or if you gave some thought to it, there are some things that you have
04:26been called out of that in many cases you never thought you could have get
04:32away from. There are situations in your life that had you so bound, had you so
04:40fettered, and had you so tied, and sometimes it's not just things, sometimes
04:48it's people who have literally had so complete control over your mind that
04:59you never ever thought you would be free from the influences that they had on
05:06your life. I think over my life, and you know, I'm married now, so I can't talk too
05:15openly about certain things and certain aspects of my life that I can tell
05:24privately, but you can't talk openly because people get embarrassed when
05:30you're not embarrassed. Yes, but you have been in the place in your life where,
05:39have been in the place in your life where you were, you were so bound during
05:49that time, that you were so bound during that time that you never ever thought
05:56you could get free. Talk to some real people here who have been in situations
06:04that you actually hated but you couldn't get out of, and bound in a way
06:15that it was addictive, and at the same time you were broken because you were
06:24dealing with something that you know was hurting you, but you couldn't escape. You
06:33just couldn't break loose. Sometimes you get away for a minute, and sometimes
06:41you would leave, but you're not gone. Maybe I'm dyslexic, but there were some
06:53things in this world that come to us through our own desire and through
06:58the enticement of Satan, and Satan's intention is not simply for you and I to
07:05have an experience, but he wants that experience to be so embedded in our
07:13psyche that even when he has stopped working on us, what is implanted is
07:24working by itself. For those of us who have played a little basketball, there
07:32were some people we wouldn't have to check because we call them self-check. We
07:39didn't mind if they get the ball because we knew they're gonna throw it away, and
07:43they wouldn't handle it properly in the first place, so we'd back off. What Satan
07:49has done is, and through our own life experiences, we have gained some things
07:56that are negative to us that we really can't break, and even though we try with
08:04our own strength, we are so immersed in the pain of it, and the pain and the
08:15longing of it. We need to talk around the table. There are some things that we
08:22hate, but we like. There are some things that we enjoy, but we hate. There are some
08:33things that we literally want to get away from, but we don't have the strength
08:41to get away from it in our own minds, in our thinking. It is the call of God that
08:51calls you out of something with an expectation for something else. So he
08:59didn't just call you to sit you down and look at you, but he called you to
09:07motivate you for the expectation that he has for your life. I've got news for
09:14you. God has an expectation for your life that you couldn't have thought of because
09:25you and I were so immersed in the struggle of what it is we were dealing
09:32with that we didn't see the hand of God moving us to deals that are losing
09:42battles because it's not the battle that God wants us to fight. The battle is not
09:49the fight for the outside. I'm going to prove it to you. The battle is a battle for the
09:57inside. If I ever get myself together, some things on the outside won't bother
10:05me. The reason the things on the outside bothering me is because they have a hold
10:13on me and they bother me because I want to break away from what they're holding
10:21me to. You see addiction is something that holds you and it holds you with a
10:30little bit of pleasure, but on the other side you've got the psyche that hates
10:36the pleasure that you're getting from something that you want to get away from
10:41and that's when he calls. You've got to understand this that God calls in the
10:49middle of what you're going through and he calls in things that you couldn't get
10:55away from unless he called you out of it. This is why the Bible calls his call an
11:03effectual calling. What is he saying? When God calls, you can't resist it and
11:12there's nothing in your life that is so powerful that when God calls, it can hold
11:20you. The reason some of us are still sane is because God called us to sanity and
11:28madness can't keep you when God calls you to sanity. The reason some of us are
11:35sober today is because God called us to sobriety and when he got to that place
11:43when he was sick and tired of us complaining about our weakness and when
11:50we reached out to him he knew we couldn't do this by ourselves. Some days
11:57you wake up with a strength that you don't know where it came from. The news
12:04was bad, the situation was awful and yet still you walked out of a situation that
12:10was terrible when you didn't do it out of your own strength. It was God calling
12:17you out and when God says Lazarus come forth, there is no death that can keep
12:25you. Respond to the call that God makes. There is no devil in hell that can bind
12:32you or keep you because God releases your mind. When God releases your mind,
12:39stuff you thought you couldn't live without, you find yourself living and
12:48rejoicing because you've been set free. I wonder is there anybody here that's
12:54been bound and know they have been set free. When God calls you out, the devil
13:02can't get you back and no matter how the devil tries, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out and when God
13:12calls you out, exe gargarazo, he gives you the power to stay out. God don't call
13:19people out to go back in. God calls people out to stay out. When you came out,
13:26you went back in. When you came out, you tried it again. When you came out, you
13:32circumvented the circumstances and dabbled and dibbled again but when God
13:37called you out, can't nothing get you back because when he called you out, he
13:47called you out with an effectual calling and he doesn't call you out to
13:52stand still. He called you out to move you to the expectation of the blessing
13:59that he has in store. Then the second thing is the inheritance of the saints.
14:11So he has called you with an expectation of your inheritance. The problem we have
14:23is we have a proclivity, a tendency to think of everything that relates to God
14:33as material. I want to talk to some people here. I don't care what you have,
14:43you can't take it with you. I'm learning now, I'm learning now that salvation is
14:57more subjective than it is objective. It is not the outside riches that salvation
15:09brings. It's an internal richness that an individual has that distinguishes them
15:20completely from outsiders. Who do I call outsiders? I call outsiders people who
15:29still believe that your value is somehow outside of who you are. If my value is my
15:42house, you can take that from me. If my value is my car, I can wreck it. If my
15:51value is my clothes, they can burn up. But the value that you have should be of such
15:59that money can't buy it. You see, a whole lot of people think they can control you
16:05with things, but control me with things is to control me with something that's
16:11passing away. For heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one jot or tittle of
16:17my word shall pass. If you're feeding yourself on outward things, you'll never
16:24get inward power. But when inward power comes, you can take some things or leave
16:30it. The devil can't dangle carrots in your eyes when you are full of God on
16:36the inside. You can't buy me. I wish somebody did it. You can't buy me. There
16:47is nothing you can give me that God and I can't get together. So I don't have to
16:54sell who I am in order to receive what you have because you don't have enough
17:01to satisfy my spirit in the time of need. I feel like preaching here.
17:14The inheritance in the saints. I didn't call you to leave you where you are, but
17:24I have an expectation of my calling. I'm calling you to go somewhere. I didn't
17:32call you to stay where you were and I didn't call you to be that person you
17:36used to be. I called you to change you and in changing you, I change your
17:45direction. If I change your direction, I change your outcome and what I'm
17:51changing you to is more lasting than everything you have ever had. I got news
17:58for you. If you move from here and you move to Arizona, there is something in
18:04Arizona that you gotta take with you and that's you. If you go to New York, you
18:10gotta take you. Somebody says, well I need to move to change my life. No, you don't
18:16have to move to change your life. If you let God have his way in your life, you
18:23can change the place because you change who you are and God ain't about changing
18:30places. He's changing hearts and when he changes your heart, the devil can't
18:37control you anymore. Can I talk to you for a minute? The problem your friends
18:43have with you is they can't control you anymore. The problem your man has with
18:48you is he can't control you anymore. The problem your woman has with you is she
18:54can't control you anymore. Why? Because when God gets control, I feel like
19:01preaching here. I'm trying not to sweat but when God gets control, he directs
19:07your path, he directs your life, he directs what you do. He doesn't only give
19:13your power, he shows you how to use it. He says you are his inheritance and I've
19:21called you for an inheritance. Can I go further? Most of us are still stuck on
19:27things. Your beauty has nothing to do with things. When you're special, see and
19:46I tell people all the time, a lot of people are single not because they can't
19:54get anybody. They're single because they're special and they just won't do
20:04with anybody.
20:09The power of God, I'm discovering that salvation is extremely subjective and
20:25what God does in salvation is he brings us into the reality of who we are. What
20:34he does for us is he brings us to the place where we stop dealing with facades
20:40and we begin to deal with the reality of who we are and that reality says more
20:52than anybody, I need the Lord and I need the Lord to qualify me for the blessings
21:03that he has for me and he says that this way, he says I called you with an
21:13expectation. If you don't have peace of mind, you haven't got to where I'm taking
21:21you. If you haven't raised your self-esteem, you haven't got to where I'm
21:30taking you because one of the things that builds self-esteem is knowing
21:36you've got God with you when everybody around you is flaking. I feel like I need
21:47to stay right there for a minute. You see because everybody around you is trying
21:52to control you in order to use you for their purpose but what God does is he
22:00elevates you to the point where nobody can use you because he's given you an
22:07internal peace that says I will not take a step unless God orders it. I will not
22:14move for this or that unless I check with God and in all thy ways acknowledge
22:22him and he will. I feel like shouting here. I've called you with an expectation
22:35and I've called you because I have an inheritance for you and the inheritance
22:43is not something that will pass away.
22:49How does Jesus put it? Jesus puts it this way. He says labor not for the meat that
23:00perishes. I'll get personal with you now. How many times have we labored
23:12heavily in a relationship that wasn't going no way?
23:19Labored. Worked hard for something not going anywhere. Working hard in
23:46situations that when you have finally been exonerated you begin to question
23:57your own sanity. What God does is his calling is a calling that takes us away
24:09from with an expectation as to where to go. God didn't call you to isolate you to
24:19be his. He called you to endow you with power not to be the tail but to be the
24:31head. What God does is he changes your position in the world that you're in and
24:39he says if I get you to depend on me you won't have to depend on anybody else
24:47because if I get you spiritually to connect with me your faith moves
24:55mountains. You connect with me and we'll move everything out of your life that
25:02does not do you good because I already know what you need before you know it
25:09and I already plan to give it to you if you give yourself to me. Don't give
25:15yourself to them. Give yourself to me. Don't give yourself to it. Give yourself
25:22to me. Can I preach like I feel it? A house can't give you God but God can give
25:32you a house. A man can't give you God but God can give you a man. A woman can't give
25:39you God. Woman can't give you God but God can give you a woman. There is nothing
25:44out here out here that can give you God but if you got God but if you got God
25:51but if you got God
25:57I feel like shouting in here. When you have God you are not to have God
26:06you are not for sale.
26:22Your significance, your significance, your significance is not in what you
26:36have. It's in who you are. Look at your neighbor and say neighbor who are you?
26:47Look back at your neighbor and say you'll soon find out when the anointing
26:52moves on my life. When the power of his word establishes some foothold in my
26:58life. When his wish is my command. When he is the ruler of my house you'll find out
27:06who I am. You'll find out who I am when the devil's who I am when the devil's
27:12rise up. You'll find out who I am when when adversity comes your way. You'll
27:18find out who I am when the enemy tries to bring you down because you'll find
27:24out that I tries to bring you down because you'll find out that I have a
27:29relationship with a name that is above every name and when I call that name
27:35every demon has got to tremble. Every situation has got to change because I'm
27:43a part of his inheritance. Give somebody a high five and say I belong to God.
27:51Quiet as it's kept. I don't belong to no man. I don't belong to no woman. I don't
27:57belong to a system. I don't belong to the Republicans or the Democrats. I belong
28:03to God. I am his inheritance and can't nobody mess that up.
28:23When I think of being an inheritance I think of the enemy and his attacks and
28:30many of you can attest to the fact if you'll testify that so much has come
28:40against you since you came to God and one of the things that is so
28:49disconcerting about it is that many of us believe that we haven't come
28:55completely because of the attacks. I've got news for you. It's the very opposite.
29:01He'll put no more on you than you're able to bear and he always makes an
29:13escape but the escape never comes until you learn the lesson. I wish I could just
29:29you know you know the preacher the difficulty of the preacher is you see I'm
29:38like an old refrigerator see I can't keep anything and you have to be
29:48cautious today because you can't tell everything because people act like they
30:03don't understand everything but they acting like it. I have learned in my own
30:16life because I've been a perpetrator and I've been a victim. God has taught me in
30:29my life to take responsibility for what I have perpetrated and what he's taught
30:43me now more than anything is that wherever I was a victim I allowed it.
30:54Amen.
31:00Looking at the white of your eyes. See I keep telling you and I'll tell you again
31:08I'm a grown man. I'm not a perfect grown man but I'm a grown man and if somebody
31:21fooled me it's because and I'm going to coin a word it's because I was foolable.
31:32I allowed it. You see I can't blame anybody for my folly. I'm too old for that. I didn't
31:49pass the Flip Wilson stage where the devil made me do it. The devil can't make me do
31:56anything. The power of salvation is he checks your weakness and he fortifies you against
32:15your weaknesses but he wants you to admit it. You can't cover it with camouflage trying
32:31to give the impression it ain't there because he sits high but he looks low and he simply
32:42wants you to say to him I need your calling because I can't get out of this situation
32:52unless you call me out. Why? Because I thought I was smart when I got in it only to find out
33:02only dumb folk get in that kind of foolishness. So I need you to call my name like you call
33:12Lazarus when he was dead. I want you to call me so that I can't refuse your calling because
33:21if you don't call me out of this I'll never get out of this and I promise you if I get out of
33:30this and I promise you if I get out of this I'll pray out of this I'll praise you till the day I
33:38die. Somebody in here God is telling me today I'm calling you out and you ain't going back. Oh
33:50you've been back two or three times but you ain't going back this time because God said I'm calling
33:59you out and I'm not calling you out to stand outside and worry about it. I'm calling you
34:06out to send you somewhere where you need to go. No I'm not gonna send you I'm gonna take you where
34:13you need to go if you where you need to go. If you walk with me and talk with me and let me guide
34:21you I will make your life something you never thought you could have. Give somebody a high-five
34:33say give him your life. Give him your life. Let him have it. Let him have it. Let him have it. I want to close today because I want to move on. The exceeding greatness of his
34:57power. So he makes a call and he makes a call and if you aren't joyful yet he's not finished. If you
35:16don't have any peace in your spirit yet he's not finished. If you are always complaining can't see
35:34anything that's right and anything that's joyful, adorable, peaceful, wonderful he ain't finished yet.
35:46Here is why. It is not the outside that is the problem because it don't matter what the color
35:59is if you're colorblind. Salvation is not the fixing of the outside. Salvation is the fixing
36:15of the inside. Salvation the power that he's talking about I might have to do this again
36:29because there's more to it. A lot of folk came to church looking for the power and they were
36:42looking for the power to curse somebody. They were looking for the power to straighten somebody up.
36:53They were looking for the power to gain wealth. I've heard a whole lot of that intro. He gives us the power to gain wealth. Do you know how many wealthy people are in the world
37:12who are atheists? The power to gain wealth. The power that he's talking about that I'm going to show you is not a power to do anything but change you
37:32and change me because my greatest enemy is not outside. My greatest enemy is inside here. If I end up in a situation that's crazy here's what you say the bishop made a fool
38:01of himself. Oh you gotta understand those words. Those are very important words. Did nobody make a fool out of a 74 year old man? He made a fool out of himself. He made a fool out of himself because he believed he can run his life.
38:28He believed that he has the power to do whatever he wants to do and this is why money makes fools out of people who are already foolish when they were poor.
38:44The Bible calls it the deceitfulness of riches because here you think an external thing can make you who you should be. There is no house big enough to change
39:14the devilment that runs in people's minds. There is not enough money to extricate the negatives that runs in people's heart. There is not enough things that can give you happiness because your joy has to come from the inside because God does not deal with outside things to cover your spirit.
39:42God deals with your spirit. When your spirit is right. I wish somebody would understand me. When your spirit is right you can walk in a room with less money than everybody in the room and change the atmosphere of that room.
40:02When your spirit is right. I want to talk to some people in here before I quit. How many folk in here right now, don't raise your hands, have somebody that you can't stand?
40:25Don't raise your hand. Don't slip your hand up. I'm not trying to hypnotize you so I can find out what's wrong with you. I was running and I'm going to close.
40:46One of the bishops is an ontologist, Chicago Bishop Smith. He said to me, and I'm bringing it to a close. He said to me when I was bragging about how far I was running and how fast I was doing it, he said to me, he said, how quickly does your body recover?
41:12So yeah, you bragging about how far you went. When you stop, how quickly does your body recover from the trauma of the eight miles?
41:30The measure of the quality of your strength is how quickly do you come back to that peaceful self after you have had a confrontation with the devil?
41:50How quickly can you get over what folk have done to you? How quickly can you run into somebody who has emasculated you with their mouth and still feel no animosity toward them and not look for any revenge?
42:16Your strength is not in how much you talk about Jesus. Your strength is in how much you exhibit Jesus. Do you yet have the power hanging on a cross to say forgive them for they know not what they do?
42:36Let me tell you something. It is the ignorance of anybody who would attack a child of God. You have to be ignorant to go against somebody who's anointed. You have to be ignorant to go against somebody who God is using.
42:53You have to be ignorant to go against a child of God who is seeking his face. Once somebody begins to seek God's face, take your hands off him. Leave him alone because he said it's better for you to tie a millstone around your neck than to mess with the least.
43:17I feel like shouting in here, the least of one of these. Why? You are tampering with his inheritance.
43:27I feel like shouting in here. Give somebody a high five and say, neighbor, I belong to God. I belong to God. My house, my money, my mouth, my feet, my hands, my legs, I belong to God.
43:47I belong to God. I don't have to fight you back. I don't have to raise a hand against you. I don't have to get mad with you. All I got to do is talk to my father.
44:03I'm getting ready to close. And here's what he said. Pray for them. I am his inheritance. I'm closing. He deals with four words of power.
44:28He uses four words. The first one is dunamis, inherent power. This is power that is God. He is dunamis.
44:46Now, he's going to move his power to you. And here's what he does. He reaches for energia in the Greek, which is another word for power.
45:11He's going to transport power, but power is always lessened when it's being transported. For instance, the power linguistically.
45:35When I say something in a certain language and it has to be translated into another language, it loses its meaning. Its meaning is reduced.
45:50This is why when we teach and preach, we give you the original language because then we can find the literal meaning. And then we'll do what is lexical, syntactical.
46:07We understand it in its original and then we bring it down in its colloquial. So I've got to take it from the original language and then bring it into my language and I lose something.
46:22You lose something from the engine of your car to the axle because it takes horsepower to move it. What God says is, I'm going to send you some power, which is my power,
46:40but I'm going to put my power in the hands of my energy so that when my power gets to you, it's the same as when it left glory. I wonder, do you see it?
46:57He says, I need you to understand the exceeding greatness of his power. Now, then he moves to strength with all might. So now he brings in another word, iskos. This is power by endowment.
47:19What I want to say to you is this, haven't you noticed that you have some power that you didn't work for? Haven't you noticed that since you have met the Lord, there are some things that would have driven you crazy five years ago that don't move you now?
47:48There are some situations that you could not get out of five years ago that you can move through right now. There are some things that had you bound in your mind that can't control a thing.
48:09And they're mad because of it. You used to be on your own two feet with no strings attached. No strings attached is faith in God because he's endowed you with power to get over something. Can I talk to you about an endowment?
48:32Let me talk to you about an endowment. When the hurricane came to New Orleans, we endowed Xavier.
48:50When you give an endowment, Xavier can't touch the principle. They can only do it with the interest.
49:04An endowment is when God gives you power that never reduces. It's the interest from the power that you're using. You are literally full of the same power that God gave you in the first place.
49:27Here's what he's saying. You have the power, but I've got to pray that you understand that you have the power. Some of us are still shirking from the devil when the devil is shirking from us because we don't know the power we have.
49:52We are constantly backing up from the challenge instead of facing the challenge in the name of Jesus. I've got to talk to you. I'm about to close. I won't be this long anymore. We'll cut the program.
50:09Let me tell you something here. You have power that you haven't used yet. When the situation arises, you will find out that I'm capable of handling something I thought I would never have because Jesus just gave it to you.
50:28The spirit made the intercession with groanings that was not uttered. God is moving in you right now about something that's going to happen on Tuesday and God is already getting you ready for what's going to happen on Tuesday.
50:45When Tuesday comes, you ain't going to lose your mind because he already strengthened your mind to deal with what's going to happen on Tuesday. When Tuesday comes and somebody thinks you ought to be going crazy, you're sitting there praising God because God told me on Sunday.
51:02Then God reaffirmed it on Sunday. Then God reaffirmed it on Monday. Then God told me while I was sleeping on Monday night and when it came on Tuesday, it was not a surprise. I was already prepared in my spirit for the deliverance that God is going to give me in the situation. It's already done.
51:26It's already done.
51:32I don't have to wait until the battle is over. It's all told me not to sweat, but I feel a shout coming on. I want to talk to somebody that understands this. The devil is not in your face. He's under and that's why God has given him a name.
52:02Above every name that at the name of Jesus.
52:07Give somebody a high five for the last time and say, neighbor, you know my name, neighbor, your name, but your name can't do it. My name can't do it, but there is a name.
52:29What is your name?
52:34Anybody here know what name his name is?
52:48There's
52:51anybody here?
52:55Listen, I feel deliverance in the house. Just put your hand on your neighbor real quick. Put your hand on your neighbor real quick. Let your anointing. Who told you you're not anointed? Who told you the holy ghost is not with you? Who told you? Can I talk to you for a minute?
53:14Who told you that you can't cast out devils? Who told you that you can't pray for the sick and they recover? Who told you that power is not in you?
53:34For I heard him say, greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. It ain't about what's outside. You got it on the inside.
53:49Hallelujah.
53:55Lay your hands on somebody. Lay your hands on somebody. In the name of Jesus. I come with the saints and I come against every power that the enemy has. I come against every financial demon.
54:13I come against every disease demon. I come against every heartbreak demon. I come against every slavery in the mind demon. I come against every move of the enemy. Set my brother free. Set my sister free.
54:36Loose your hold. Loose your hold. Release my gift. Release my power. Release my strength. It's under my feet. My death. My heartbreak. My incompetence. It's under my feet.
55:00It's under my feet. Every demon. Every witch. Every saucer. Under my feet. Everything that Satan wants to throw against me is under my feet. I claim my place. I claim my position. I claim my strength. I claim my anointing.
55:25I claim the name that is above every name. I claim it.
55:31I must say like Jesus said to the woman, go home. Your daughter is already healed. Your situation is already fixed. Go.
56:01It's done. It's done. Give somebody a high five and say it's getting ready to be testimony.
56:32Testimony.
56:36Come to Jesus.
57:03If you're in this house and you're not born again, I want you to know what it's exceeding greatness of his power. Come to Jesus. You're online. There's a number to call.
57:33Come to Jesus.