Hindered But Not Defeated - Pastor Steve Epley — Transcript

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1. 0:091 Thessalonians
2. 0:132 1 Thessalonians
3. 0:172 and verse 17 and 18 1 Thessalonians 2
4. 0:2417 and
5. 0:2518 but we Brethren being taken from you
6. 0:29for for a short time in presence not in
7. 0:33heart endeavoring the more abundantly to
8. 0:37see your face with great
9. 0:39desire wherefore we would have come unto
10. 0:42you even I
11. 0:44Paul once and
12. 0:47again but
13. 0:50Satan hindered us but
14. 0:54Satan hindered us would you pray with me
15. 0:58dear God we're so thankful for your
16. 1:00kindness and your goodness and your love
17. 1:03I ask you to help us today Lord we love
18. 1:06you we appreciate you we magnify you we
19. 1:09glorify you God touch us today move in
20. 1:13this house today Lord in Jesus name you
21. 1:17may be
22. 1:20seated amen I'd like
23. 1:23to really
24. 1:25a almost more of a preaching
25. 1:30text and a teaching text but I felt like
26. 1:34teaching today I want to teach
27. 1:38today
28. 1:40hindered
29. 1:41hindered but not
30. 1:46defeated hindered but
31. 1:49not
32. 1:52defeated we're fooling oursel to think
33. 1:55that we cannot be hindered that's right
34. 1:59amen man we can be
35. 2:02hindered amen the
36. 2:05devil if the devil was able to hinder
37. 2:09Paul then uh he's able to hinder us
38. 2:14amen but we can only hindrance will only
39. 2:17come a
40. 2:19defeat if we
41. 2:22allow our hindrances to defeat us
42. 2:26Brother Andy if you get closer up here I
43. 2:29I do want
44. 2:33uh go to some scriptures today and talk
45. 2:36to
46. 2:37you and sometime
47. 2:41messages sometimes
48. 2:44they're uh first Peter
49. 2:495 8 and
50. 2:52N want to start there
51. 2:57brother uh
52. 3:00coton First Corinthians 16
53. 3:04and9 uh some some classes are are
54. 3:10birthed by
55. 3:13prayer and some classes are birthed by
56. 3:17study other classes are B are birthed by
57. 3:23inspiration sometimes you hear
58. 3:25something and it will bring a kernel in
59. 3:28you
60. 3:30Sometimes some classes are birthed by
61. 3:32life life births them in
62. 3:35you and that's kind of how this class is
63. 3:39today
64. 3:41amen I
65. 3:43I sometimes you sometimes you've got to
66. 3:47you have
67. 3:49to I've learned years ago you have to
68. 3:54preach and teach your way
69. 3:58out amen and sometimes you as a saint
70. 4:02you just got to sing and
71. 4:04praise and glorify God your way
72. 4:08out and as a preacher you've got
73. 4:12to uh uh you've got to
74. 4:17either accept what's coming your
75. 4:21way and and by doing that except
76. 4:25defeat or you just have to just preach
77. 4:27your way out yes that's the only thing I
78. 4:31know to do I've been through a lot of
79. 4:33trials in my life very honestly and I
80. 4:37know when my wife had her had her wreck
81. 4:40in 2003 it was a very it was a very
82. 4:44trying
83. 4:46situation uh but I never experienced
84. 4:49fear I just I just felt there was some
85. 4:52Assurance there that everything's going
86. 4:55to be all right and I received matter of
87. 4:58fact I received two
88. 5:00prophecies uh one on the way on the way
89. 5:04brother Swindle called me told me I
90. 5:08don't know what you're facing but the
91. 5:09Lord told me to tell you that everything
92. 5:11is going to be all
93. 5:13right and I stood on that but when we
94. 5:16got there it didn't look good but I
95. 5:17stood on that and I didn't have fear
96. 5:21then when it looked the
97. 5:23worst uh brother cleave lambath called
98. 5:27and said the Lord had spoke to him that
99. 5:30help was on the
100. 5:32way and uh and it was within within
101. 5:37moments it was and I was able but I
102. 5:41never had I never had I never really had
103. 5:44to fight through fear I I just didn't
104. 5:46have didn't have fears and my wife back
105. 5:51in last may she had this uh triple byass
106. 5:55and uh brother groover come up there and
107. 5:57was with me when they doing them test
108. 6:00and then a lot of folks was there during
109. 6:03the uh actual deal and uh again I never
110. 6:08I never suffered through any fear I
111. 6:10never had any any fear I just I just I
112. 6:14just had I just had this assurance that
113. 6:17everything was going to be all
114. 6:19right uh but on this Tuesday morning
115. 6:24when my wife had these
116. 6:27Strokes I will confess to you
117. 6:30I feel
118. 6:32fear I feel
119. 6:34fear so I I'm so I'm struggling through
120. 6:37these
121. 6:38fears and uh uh and uh uh I've it's been
122. 6:43a
123. 6:44very uh I've been able to show it to her
124. 6:47I've had to be strong with her but it's
125. 6:50been a very trying week for me mentally
126. 6:54and
127. 6:55emotionally and uh but I came to serve
128. 6:59notice on the devil this morning
129. 7:02hallelujah praise the
130. 7:04Lord amen you may have hindered
131. 7:07me but I am not
132. 7:13defeated Ser notice on you today you may
133. 7:17have hindered
134. 7:18me and I may have to back up and take
135. 7:21another look at you but I am not
136. 7:25defeated glory to God praise God I am
137. 7:29not not waving the White Flag I'm not
138. 7:32surrendering I'm believing
139. 7:35God and uh uh so I'm working my way
140. 7:39through this mentally and
141. 7:42spiritually and uh I don't want to wait
142. 7:45anybody down this morning but the only
143. 7:48way I know so I may be teaching mostly
144. 7:50to me that I am to you this morning but
145. 7:54I but I'm trying to I'm talking to
146. 7:57myself you know when David had nobody to
147. 8:00encourage him I said and David
148. 8:02encouraged himself in the
149. 8:05Lord and as the scriptures i' got is
150. 8:09coming to me through this
151. 8:11week because if you're human if you're
152. 8:15human there's no way for you to not
153. 8:19wonder why
154. 8:21why how come me you wouldn't be human if
155. 8:26you didn't do that and what does it say
156. 8:29in 1 Peter 5 and8 be sober yes yes be
157. 8:34vigilant yes yes because your adversary
158. 8:37yes yes yes as a roaring lion walth
159. 8:40about yes yes seeking whom he may devour
160. 8:43all right whom resist
161. 8:46steast yes knowing that the same
162. 8:48afflictions are accomplished in youren
163. 8:51that are in the world I want you to
164. 8:54know because you're saved does not
165. 8:57exempt you
166. 8:59from all the calamities that take place
167. 9:01to everybody else same afflictions
168. 9:04that's right same afflictions come on
169. 9:07the only difference between us and them
170. 9:10thank you God they have to go to a
171. 9:12bottle or a
172. 9:15pill well praise the Lord come on but
173. 9:18the wise man said if thou
174. 9:21thinkt in the day of thy
175. 9:24adversity is because thy strength is
176. 9:28small but you you know
177. 9:30what amen Psalm 46 And1 said God is our
178. 9:37refuge and he is our
179. 9:40strength and he is a present help in the
180. 9:43time of trouble thank you Lord amen so I
181. 9:47amen I have learned through life amen
182. 9:51trouble's going to come down the way yes
183. 9:54problems are going to come down the PIP
184. 9:57well praise you live long enough
185. 9:59something's going to go wrong in your
186. 10:00body or in your family but you're not
187. 10:03without strength and you're not without
188. 10:06hope and you're not without help because
189. 10:09our strength is in the Lord God is our
190. 10:15refuge praise
191. 10:18God hallelujah and is our
192. 10:22strength brother Adam give me Psalm 61
193. 10:25and2 amen yeah all right where where
194. 10:29where you at brother
195. 10:32brother
196. 10:34yes
197. 10:36yes open yes yes and there are many I'm
198. 10:40going to tell you what when when when
199. 10:42when when the Lord when the Lord moves
200. 10:46you you you listen to me when the Lord
201. 10:50moves you you you better get ready for
202. 10:53an
203. 10:54attack yes that's right you be ready for
204. 10:57an attack cause
205. 11:00that's right amen he don't just sit back
206. 11:03that's right and shake his head amen he
207. 11:06rars his head up yes he does and it can
208. 11:09do it to a limit I told Brother Bryant
209. 11:11the other night Wednesday night uh he
210. 11:14asked me how things was going I said
211. 11:16well man I tell you you know I said
212. 11:18today it's kind of been like job they
213. 11:20wouldn't be one doctor leave before
214. 11:22another one would come in and and and
215. 11:24the News would get worse you know they
216. 11:26told us they told us one stroke and then
217. 11:28the next guy come in he told us two
218. 11:31strokes and the next guy come in and he
219. 11:33told us three strokes and M thing we're
220. 11:36worried about in the next couple of days
221. 11:38we can't get her on this medicine till
222. 11:41Friday and and that'll dissolve them
223. 11:44we're worried about Strokes in the
224. 11:46meantime CU while I was at church here
225. 11:48they started her on that other medicine
226. 11:50they didn't want they didn't want to
227. 11:51take it take it I said man I just feel
228. 11:53like you know every time I looked up and
229. 11:55seen one coming in the door they had uh
230. 11:58they had they had some more bad
231. 12:01news but in the middle of all this bad
232. 12:03news God is our strength
233. 12:08he he don't run out on us he's not a
234. 12:13deserter Hall well praise the Lord he's
235. 12:16not a
236. 12:18deserter amen you can lean on him amen
237. 12:22you can't lean on your own understanding
238. 12:24you can't Le on your own strength you
239. 12:26can't Le on your own Constitution you
240. 12:29some sometimes you just got to say God
241. 12:31here it is there ain't nothing I can do
242. 12:34about it lord it's out of my hands it's
243. 12:36out of my control but it's not out of
244. 12:39your hands and it's not out of your
245. 12:43control and you just got you just you
246. 12:45just got to trust the
247. 12:47Lord well praise the Lord you just got
248. 12:50to put it in his
249. 12:51hand what it say brother
250. 12:56Adam when the from the end of the feel
251. 12:59like you've been there from the end of
252. 13:02the Earth I Cried unto thee when my
253. 13:05heart is over when my heart is
254. 13:07overwhelmed within me it didn't say if
255. 13:11my heart is overwhelmed within me you
256. 13:14hang around long enough and your heart's
257. 13:16going to be
258. 13:17overwhelmed life has got a way of
259. 13:20overwhelming you oh yes it does life has
260. 13:24got a way of overwhelming you David said
261. 13:28I've been overwhelmed
262. 13:29many times but he said I I found this
263. 13:32secret when my heart is overwhelmed
264. 13:36within me what did he
265. 13:38say lead me to that rock that is higher
266. 13:43than I it's higher than my problems it's
267. 13:46higher than my struggles it's higher
268. 13:49than my battles it's higher than my
269. 13:53circumstances it's higher than my
270. 13:55trouble
271. 13:57Lead Me praise
272. 14:03God lead me to that
273. 14:07rock that is
274. 14:10higher than
275. 14:13I Brother Andy 1 Peter 4
276. 14:21and12 and I wrote this down but I think
277. 14:24I wrote it down wrong
278. 14:32can you say praise the
279. 14:35Lord and brother cotton first Peter
280. 14:386 1 Peter 1
281. 14:426-8 1 Peter 412 and3 whates it say
282. 14:46Brother
283. 14:46Andy beloved think it not strange yes
284. 14:50concerning the fiery trial which is to
285. 14:52try you nobody's
286. 14:57exempt I don't care if you got the faith
287. 14:59of
288. 15:00Paul and the patience of
289. 15:03Job and the love of
290. 15:05John nobody's
291. 15:09exempt so when Trouble Comes your way
292. 15:12you don't you don't need to let the
293. 15:13devil tell you that you're not a child
294. 15:16of God all right that's good go ahead
295. 15:18that you failed God that's good go ahead
296. 15:21that God don't see what you're going
297. 15:22through amen that that that you
298. 15:25know why is this happening to me we we
299. 15:28don't man I wish I'd wish I'd had the
300. 15:31wisdom and the knowledge to be able to
301. 15:34tell
302. 15:35everybody
303. 15:37why but God don't give us the
304. 15:40answers but Peter lets us know you know
305. 15:45don't you don't you think that's
306. 15:47strange when trouble is coming your way
307. 15:50it don't mean God don't love you when
308. 15:52trouble's coming your way it don't mean
309. 15:54that you're not living for God when
310. 15:56trouble is coming your way you know
311. 15:59job's job's friends got in a lot of
312. 16:01trouble with
313. 16:04God because when when job was going
314. 16:07through his trial instead of being there
315. 16:10to support him and strengthen him and
316. 16:15encourage him they were there accusing
317. 16:19him I don't want to sit in that
318. 16:23seat well praise the
319. 16:26Lord they went bad things you know bad
320. 16:29things happen to good
321. 16:31people and good things happen to bad
322. 16:35people well glory to
323. 16:37God and and and and and they they're
324. 16:41examining job in their mind there's no
325. 16:44way this could have all happened to him
326. 16:46if he hadn't failed God in some way
327. 16:50remember job job done yeah I'm going to
328. 16:52tell you what you walk down in the
329. 16:55funeral home and you've got 10 kids left
330. 16:58and they're dead you going to examine
331. 17:02yourself but you know what job had
332. 17:05sacrificed for them that
333. 17:12morning and in one day all your wealth
334. 17:15is
335. 17:17gone a little later all your health is
336. 17:20gone you're going to do plenty
337. 17:25self-examination and then generally
338. 17:26you'll get help from somebody else Glory
339. 17:29to God they wonder how manad I you know
340. 17:32they had to have done something I knew
341. 17:35the Judgment of God was going to hit
342. 17:37them glory to God now you know always
343. 17:41wonder when it hits us it's a
344. 17:44trial when it hit somebody else is the
345. 17:47Judgment of
346. 17:48God well can you say praise the Lord the
347. 17:51Lord
348. 17:53amen so thinking not they're all they're
349. 17:57all and God Waits you know he
350. 18:01waits he
351. 18:04waits and and
352. 18:06and then toward the end there appears
353. 18:09someone and he
354. 18:11starts Reckoning with them and arguing
355. 18:14with
356. 18:15them finally God said you know these men
357. 18:19have not spoken what is
358. 18:22right about me concerning job what
359. 18:25they've said is not right
360. 18:30so he said thinking not strange you know
361. 18:33when life turns you on its
362. 18:35head think it not strange that that
363. 18:39these things are coming and what does it
364. 18:40say Brother
365. 18:41Andy some strange thing happenedto you
366. 18:44yes
367. 18:46yes
368. 18:47are of Christ suffering you know if you
369. 18:50read the both book of peters's First
370. 18:54Peter and if it was Donald Trump two
371. 18:56Peters praise the Lord
372. 18:59that scholar
373. 19:01amen L second Peter there there's a word
374. 19:04that's used over and over in in that
375. 19:06that's the word
376. 19:10sufferings
377. 19:13sufferings we ain't much into
378. 19:18suffering
379. 19:19nobody anybody here just want to
380. 19:23suffer
381. 19:25amen you think some folks do praise the
382. 19:28Lord
383. 19:31I'm going to tell you what things that
384. 19:33seem to mount mean a lot to
385. 19:37you seem so important to you they become
386. 19:41unimportant overnight that's
387. 19:44right that's true
388. 19:47sir just change
389. 19:49overnight and uh
390. 19:54uh our
391. 19:57sufferings you you know Paul said that I
392. 20:00might know
393. 20:03him in the power of his
394. 20:07resurrection but that don't that don't
395. 20:09end with a period
396. 20:11there it's got a comma and the
397. 20:15fellowships of his
398. 20:17sufferings anybody ever anybody ever
399. 20:20prayed to be like the Lord Lord I won't
400. 20:22be like you if you
401. 20:25prayed and somebody lie on you and you
402. 20:27wonder why do this happened to me we
403. 20:31just down there praying to
404. 20:32Lord like the
405. 20:35Lord somebody desert
406. 20:38you you thought you was your
407. 20:43friend now I don't know how this worked
408. 20:45okay I'm going to tell you there there's
409. 20:47a lot of things in the Bible I just
410. 20:49believe them I don't know how it worked
411. 20:51okay if you understand it all good I'm
412. 20:54glad you're
413. 20:55here amen but I don't I don't know I
414. 20:59don't know how it all
415. 21:01works the Bible said Jesus knew from the
416. 21:04beginning who'd be trained what
417. 21:06scripture says I sure you right right
418. 21:12there well now you explain to me if he
419. 21:14knew from the
420. 21:16beginning who betray him why did he say
421. 21:19my old familiar friend in whom I've
422. 21:26trusted has dealt up his heel against me
423. 21:31well you explain that you explain it
424. 21:32yourself praise the
425. 21:34Lord I can explain it I just know it's
426. 21:37in the Bible both passages in the Bible
427. 21:39and they're both
428. 21:42sold so we explain that I don't exercise
429. 21:45myself in things that are too high for
430. 21:47me amen some folks they get they get
431. 21:51trying to count how many angels can get
432. 21:53on the the you know the point of a
433. 21:55needle you know I I don't I don't know
434. 22:00but but G Jesus said when
435. 22:03Judas you know he kissed him and he said
436. 22:06friend and I I'm not no Greek
437. 22:09guy but but but when Judas kissed him
438. 22:13that word you know there's different
439. 22:15kisses you know I may kiss on Josiah on
440. 22:19the he Bo I gr up in Kentucky okay
441. 22:22brother Smith can testify
442. 22:25this you got kissed when you went to
443. 22:27church
444. 22:30that was a custom there I don't know if
445. 22:32they've done that in Missouri or not but
446. 22:34they did that in in Kentucky and
447. 22:37Mississippi I mean you got a lot of
448. 22:39sugar at
449. 22:43church that's very common yeah they K
450. 22:46that you know
451. 22:48they you know you everybody read that
452. 22:50Greek one of with a holy kiss well they
453. 22:52done that I don't know how holy it was
454. 22:54but they did
455. 22:55it and uh
456. 23:00Hallelujah I had a friend of mine
457. 23:02preached on Mississippi years ago and uh
458. 23:06they kissed you when you come
459. 23:08in there having Fellowship in the middle
460. 23:10of the deal they kissed him
461. 23:12again and and the third time they
462. 23:15started
463. 23:16he stop stop there's more sugar than
464. 23:20I've gotten he said in 30 years of
465. 23:22marriage I'm I'm
466. 23:24out I'm out I'm through I'm done
467. 23:31but the Bible said and Judas kissed him
468. 23:34now I'm not no big Greek scholar okay
469. 23:37but from what I understand is that word
470. 23:40kiss there was affectionately kissed
471. 23:45him I don't understand
472. 23:48that he's making a deal to sell
473. 23:51Jesus but there's part of him brother
474. 23:56o there's part of him
475. 24:00that loved
476. 24:02Jesus but the part of him that
477. 24:05loved
478. 24:10money weighed against loving Jesus money
479. 24:14outweigh Jesus and he'll do that a lot
480. 24:16of
481. 24:17times and and
482. 24:20he he he kissed him and Jesus said
483. 24:26friend why did you do it
484. 24:30well is your mind been exercised let me
485. 24:33give you one let me let me give you one
486. 24:35while I'm on this subject I think I'm
487. 24:37not
488. 24:39sure Psalm 5511
489. 24:42maybe the other psalm well let's see I'm
490. 24:45going to show you I'm in the Bible Psalm
491. 24:5141:9 don't doubt me praise
492. 24:56God my own oh familiar friend in whom
493. 25:01I've
494. 25:04trusted he carried the
495. 25:08money he carried the bag he was the only
496. 25:12other officer in
497. 25:16church well Glory somebody said Judas
498. 25:19was a devil from the beginning that's
499. 25:20not
500. 25:25so the Bible said have the devil having
501. 25:28put it into the mind of judas's
502. 25:30carot that was the first thing that he
503. 25:33done then later after the top the devil
504. 25:35entering
505. 25:36him well praise the Lord he was a devil
506. 25:39from the beginning then when meas took
507. 25:42his place then he'd become a devil
508. 25:44because he took he took his
509. 25:47office well praise the Lord he wasn't a
510. 25:50devil from the beginning
511. 25:55but somewhere in Jesus
512. 25:59that maybe beyond our human
513. 26:01comprehension he
514. 26:03knew he knew what Judas was going to
515. 26:09do but he loved
516. 26:13Judas who's got the
517. 26:1655 you got the 55 and
518. 26:1911 11 I think
519. 26:25yeah deceit and G
520. 26:3255 oh 55 and 12 I'm sorry go ahead for
521. 26:37if thou was not an enemy that reproached
522. 26:39me it was not an enemy that reproached
523. 26:42me then I could have borne
524. 26:45it I could have born
525. 26:48it
526. 26:50what
527. 26:53yeah
528. 26:55yes yes
529. 27:02yes oh that old
530. 27:05man
531. 27:08yes yes
532. 27:14yes
533. 27:19yes he said you know it wasn't it
534. 27:24wasn't it wasn't my enemy
535. 27:32but it was my
536. 27:34acquaintance we took sweet counsel
537. 27:37together glory to
538. 27:41God now let Bey on my little
539. 27:49peeping but every one of you in here has
540. 27:52more than one part of you
541. 28:00everybody in this house would not want
542. 28:03every thought that you've had this week
543. 28:05shown up on this screen every one of you
544. 28:08without exception and if you think you
545. 28:11would you're so
546. 28:17deceived your vessel's cracked and all
547. 28:19the waterers run out and you don't even
548. 28:21you ain't and you don't even know it
549. 28:22praise the
550. 28:26Lord but here what what in the world I
551. 28:28get into this what this have to do with
552. 28:30where I was
553. 28:32going but but Jesus Jesus knew how it f
554. 28:36we're praying to be like Jesus and and
555. 28:38and and if you're going to pray to be
556. 28:40like Jesus somebody's got to betray
557. 28:44you somebody that you
558. 28:47love has got to betray you you know
559. 28:50what this old Gody Liv
560. 28:53on anybody on this road between here and
561. 28:56Sia besides the saint live there if they
562. 28:59say something bad about me you know what
563. 29:02that means to
564. 29:06me you think I'd care if somebody on the
565. 29:09street I live on say something bad about
566. 29:10me why would I
567. 29:12care I don't even know none of them his
568. 29:14name I should I guess but I
569. 29:21don't but you let
570. 29:24you say something bad about me
571. 29:29well that changes
572. 29:31everything because I have feelings for
573. 29:34you someone that's unattached to you
574. 29:38really cannot hurt
575. 29:40you you well you wouldn't like
576. 29:44it but it wouldn't mean that
577. 29:47much you're driving to town some idiot
578. 29:50flips you
579. 29:53off you're not going to remember that a
580. 29:55year from now who cares
581. 29:58well praise the Lord but you let
582. 30:00somebody shun you at
583. 30:03church and it's a
584. 30:08wound well can you say glory to
585. 30:12God said said
586. 30:17man was we through with yours oh okay go
587. 30:20back to
588. 30:21Peter I'm like brother Evans I got so
589. 30:24far from the house I so far from the
590. 30:27porch I couldn't even here the dogs are
591. 30:28barking amen go ahead for rejoice in as
592. 30:32much as you are partakers of Christ
593. 30:34suffering yes and when his glory shall
594. 30:36be revealed brother it only it's not
595. 30:39only the suffering that you share with
596. 30:41Christ but there's some there's some
597. 30:43there's some Glory that takes
598. 30:46place and it's how it's how you it's how
599. 30:50you how you manage in the suffering
600. 30:53right will be how you are able to take
601. 30:57care of the glory some folks lose all
602. 31:00the
603. 31:01glory they don't get any
604. 31:04Glory because they didn't do very good
605. 31:06during the
606. 31:08suffering well praise the
607. 31:10Lord where' you where you at brother
608. 31:14cotton Brother Andy I want you get me
609. 31:18second Corinthians 4
610. 31:217-10 then I'm going to get
611. 31:2416-8 1 Corinthians 4 7-8 and 16 16
612. 31:28through 18 all right where you at go
613. 31:29ahead wherein you greatly Rejoice yes
614. 31:33yes though now for a season yes if need
615. 31:38yes I'm going to tell you
616. 31:41what life's Got Away of caving in on
617. 31:47you that don't mean that you're not
618. 31:51spiritual or don't love
619. 31:54God or out of the will of God some folks
620. 31:58are always out of the will of
621. 32:01God if this happened to me I wouldn't be
622. 32:03on the will of God well if Trouble Comes
623. 32:05Your Way a lot of times it's because you
624. 32:07are in the will of
625. 32:09God not because you're out of the will
626. 32:11of
627. 32:13God you think Donald Trump been in the
628. 32:15will of God his whole blessed
629. 32:18life he wouldn't know God if met him in
630. 32:20four land Highway praise the Lord but
631. 32:23it's going to make America great again
632. 32:26Hallelujah but
633. 32:28you know it
634. 32:30it most folks is words troubles us about
635. 32:33money well he ain't worried about no
636. 32:35money
637. 32:37amen but it you know how much God's Got
638. 32:40to Do With That zip
639. 32:46right somebody there have a flat
640. 32:50tire I pastored people that was like
641. 32:53that matter of fact I still do
642. 33:03that they get a flat tire and whoa is me
643. 33:06you going to get flat
644. 33:11tires boy you can tell folks it's ra
645. 33:14poor you know you
646. 33:16know God's blessed us and we do good and
647. 33:19I'm not complaining I'm happy and
648. 33:21thrilled but me and my wife are both
649. 33:23raised poor we raised poor I'm going
650. 33:26tell you what when I get through with
651. 33:27with the with the with with the
652. 33:30toothpaste
653. 33:33tube there ain't nothing you ain't going
654. 33:35to brush your teeth with it I'm telling
655. 33:37you I
656. 33:40man there's nothing in there only thing
657. 33:44that they don't do is cut it
658. 33:51open that's the only thing that I don't
659. 33:54do is cut it open
660. 33:58when I get through with that mouth wash
661. 34:00there ain't a
662. 34:02drop you could if you could cut the
663. 34:04things have Li it around in there you
664. 34:09know call when you raise poor that's
665. 34:13that's just that's just how it is and
666. 34:16we've been blessed we got our our
667. 34:18washing machines going
668. 34:20out honest to God it sound like a
669. 34:24737 plane leaving here
670. 34:28you never
671. 34:29heard you never heard like a
672. 34:33racket I said baby I'll go buy you
673. 34:36another another no said we'll just wait
674. 34:39that we'll just we just use it till that
675. 34:42goes
676. 34:47out will y'all help me pray to go
677. 34:51[Applause]
678. 34:53out I kid you
679. 34:56not and some sometimes she'd want to
680. 34:58wash at
681. 35:07night you know we can really afford you
682. 35:10know if we do we can buy the scratch and
683. 35:12dent you know you can't even you can
684. 35:15even buy and pay them
685. 35:19out but not hurried it's going to die
686. 35:22the death we
687. 35:25done we done call the poor guy out he'd
688. 35:27come out here and said M how long have
689. 35:29you had this we got cting up to 15
690. 35:33years so well it's done pretty good for
691. 35:3515
692. 35:37years said uh
693. 35:41uh she said can it be fixed he quoted
694. 35:44the
695. 35:45price I could tell me he's quoting that
696. 35:47he wasn't want to fix it I mean I can
697. 35:51buy one how me do do that so he left I
698. 35:55said well I don't worry about that I go
699. 35:57to I'm bu you one day
700. 35:59[Music]
701. 36:02no we just use it let it goes
702. 36:07out amen I'm might have to give me some
703. 36:09nerve pills if it keeps going praise the
704. 36:12Lord is working
705. 36:15Hallelujah I'm hoping every
706. 36:19day amen but your worship machine if you
707. 36:23live for God your and you long your
708. 36:26worship machine will go on
709. 36:29out brother hugget ain't always look
710. 36:31this
711. 36:34bad now I'm not saying he ever looked
712. 36:36good but he ain't always looked as
713. 36:40bad but there's something about life
714. 36:43life shifts your furniture
715. 36:49around I mean your hair turns loose or
716. 36:52it turns gray and your teeth comes out
717. 36:54you're looking through
718. 36:56these and wobbling
719. 37:00around amen we got them we got them
720. 37:03coming here they were on on on on
721. 37:07Walkers and
722. 37:09cans and and and and that that's just
723. 37:13life that don't mean God don't love
724. 37:19you sister V the doctor tells sister vaa
725. 37:23that you know she got arthritis in her
726. 37:26knees she wants a a second
727. 37:33opinion she going to get it too praise
728. 37:35the
729. 37:39Lord she knew MDC hey praise the
730. 37:48Lord and she want a second opinion on
731. 37:50her n but I'm going to tell you what if
732. 37:52you live long enough your knees are not
733. 37:55going to move as much as good as they
734. 37:56ought to
735. 37:58that's just that's just
736. 37:59life so you can't you you you can't say
737. 38:02Where's
738. 38:05God this ain't heaven right you ain't
739. 38:09got your new body yet you ain't got your
740. 38:12new home yet we believe in healing we
741. 38:15preach healing We Believe for
742. 38:17[Applause]
743. 38:21healing but there ain't no healing for
744. 38:23old
745. 38:25age old age wasn't in the atonement
746. 38:28praise the Lord glory to God you just
747. 38:31going to get old you going to you and
748. 38:33you need to thank God for those if if
749. 38:36you wasn't feeling those aches you
750. 38:38wouldn't be
751. 38:40here that's just part of
752. 38:43it that don't mean you're out of Faith
753. 38:46or you don't have faith and you don't
754. 38:48believe God and you're out of the will
755. 38:50of God come
756. 38:52on well that just means you life life's
757. 38:56going to come your way
758. 38:57that's right am I don't care how much
759. 38:59Faith you've got life is going to come
760. 39:02your way that's
761. 39:05right well glory to
762. 39:08God had a fell years ago he preaching
763. 39:11for a fellow that uh didn't believe in
764. 39:15believe you had enough Faith you
765. 39:16wouldn't get sick I don't know if you
766. 39:18ever remember everybody preaching that
767. 39:20but boy they they been around preach
768. 39:22that impossible to get sick get fi can't
769. 39:25get sick can't get sick
770. 39:28and this guy this guy couldn't get
771. 39:30sick and uh so this guy was uh preaching
772. 39:35for him and this preacher been talking
773. 39:38to him about getting that Faith get
774. 39:40getting that Faith where you don't get
775. 39:43sick boy it sounds good don't it man I I
776. 39:47like to have that getting faith and get
777. 39:49sick so while he was preaching for
778. 39:52him this
779. 39:54pastor he gets sick
780. 39:58but he's not claiming he said he was in
781. 40:00the bathroom and you could hear him he's
782. 40:03throwing his guts up I'm not
783. 40:07sick I'm not sick
784. 40:09I'm said evand knocked on the door said
785. 40:12if you ain't sick I don't ever want to
786. 40:14get sick praise
787. 40:15God well glory to God but that that
788. 40:20just that's
789. 40:22life that's
790. 40:25life that all that brother Cott
791. 40:28oh yeah give him a little more of
792. 40:32that
793. 40:35yes yeah but you know
794. 40:40what if you can put that belt on and
795. 40:43hold
796. 40:47tight when the bad things come your
797. 40:51way and the trials and the tests come
798. 40:55your way said I'm keeping my
799. 40:59Integrity I'm staying with
800. 41:02God I'm staying with the
801. 41:04church I'm not going to charge God
802. 41:08foolishly well praise the
803. 41:10Lord I'm just going to keep on going I
804. 41:13don't understand why this is happening
805. 41:15to me but I'm going to hang in there and
806. 41:18if I hang in
807. 41:21there
808. 41:23yes praise and glory the hearing of
809. 41:27Jesus hey Jesus is coming yes he is and
810. 41:31you ain't got to worry about the washing
811. 41:33machine Jesus is coming you ain't got to
812. 41:36worry about the bad T Jesus is coming
813. 41:38you ain't got to worry about the bad kns
814. 41:41and the arthritis and the blood pressure
815. 41:44and the you talk about a healing meeting
816. 41:46we shall all be changed in a moment in
817. 41:50the tweaking of an eye at the sound of
818. 41:52the last
819. 41:55trap for this mortal is going to put on
820. 41:59immortality man I was born and raised
821. 42:01been born raised in Kentucky I don't
822. 42:03know if brother Smith remembers any of
823. 42:06them but uh we had we had never died
824. 42:09people around us matter of fact within
825. 42:1250 miles of where I was raised that
826. 42:14there were six never di churches now
827. 42:17only one of them was in existence when I
828. 42:19by the time I come along the reason the
829. 42:21other five wasn't in existence was they
830. 42:24they all died and we had one left and
831. 42:28and I never will forget when when sister
832. 42:31clark died she was the
833. 42:34pastores of the
834. 42:36uh of the of that last neveri church and
835. 42:41and uh she uh uh we had a man in our
836. 42:46church his name was brother BS and uh he
837. 42:49was a never ey and I told Brother B I
838. 42:53said brother B did you hear about sister
839. 42:55clark she died
840. 42:58he said
841. 42:59yeah said she must not had a testimony
842. 43:02that pleased the
843. 43:04Lord said Enoch had a testimony to
844. 43:07pleased the Lord he didn't
845. 43:12die I said
846. 43:16okay I said brother bold I don't want to
847. 43:18hurt your
848. 43:19feeling said you better get that Faith
849. 43:21working you got that false
850. 43:24teeth you got them eyeglasses
851. 43:27and you're
852. 43:28stooping looks like to me you're on your
853. 43:30way to graveyard praise the
854. 43:35Lord he Pat me on the head he said I got
855. 43:40it well I went to Brother B funeral
856. 43:42praise the Lord he didn't have faith
857. 43:45pleasing testimon pleas God because
858. 43:48you're going to
859. 43:52die but there's going to be a a a
860. 43:55resurrection of the Dead oh yes amen
861. 43:58next Sunday is Easter Sunday
862. 44:00Resurrection Sunday praise the Lord
863. 44:04grave couldn't keep Jesus in
864. 44:06there because he arose we all will arise
865. 44:10that's right all on now let me finish
866. 44:13this off with brother with brother
867. 44:14Andy's
868. 44:16scripture in first 2 Corinthians
869. 44:194 second Corinthians 4
870. 44:237-10 and 16- 18 2 Corinthians 4: 7-10
871. 44:3016-18 this is Paul talking go ahead but
872. 44:33we have this treasure in we have this
873. 44:37treasure but don't anyone forget it's in
874. 44:41an earn vessel the treasures
875. 44:44perfect the vessel's not
876. 44:51perfect don't raise your hand okay
877. 45:00but have you ever done anything that or
878. 45:02said anything that you wondered where in
879. 45:05the world that come
880. 45:07from you're so ashamed of
881. 45:10yourself now I realize I Pastor few here
882. 45:14if they dropped an egg it wouldn't even
883. 45:16break I understand that I'm talking
884. 45:18about most of us praise the
885. 45:21Lord how that
886. 45:27well the Treasure's perfect brother
887. 45:30OED but it's living in
888. 45:38you so the
889. 45:41treasure God has chosen hear me Saints
890. 45:46God has chosen in His Infinite Wisdom it
891. 45:50has to be because it makes no sense to
892. 45:52me in his infinite wisdom God has chose
893. 45:55to live in
894. 45:59you and you Jared you know all your
895. 46:03Hang-Ups I ain't going to tell them all
896. 46:05here praise the Lord expect a little
897. 46:06more of the envelope tonight they know
898. 46:08I'm done teasing
899. 46:10you but you know you know all your you
900. 46:14know maybe nobody knows them all but you
901. 46:16probably that they don't but they know
902. 46:18you
903. 46:21know but yet God the Holy Ghost lives in
904. 46:25you now if you follow followed the Holy
905. 46:27Ghost and was led by the Holy Ghost and
906. 46:30and and and would listen to the Holy
907. 46:32Ghost and would live in the Holy Ghost
908. 46:35every moment of the
909. 46:37day well you'd get an
910. 46:39A+ you'd make a hundred on all your
911. 46:43tests but the most of us in school
912. 46:46didn't make hundreds on all of our
913. 46:50tests some of us didn't make very good
914. 46:52at
915. 46:54all well praise the Lord
916. 46:59so
917. 47:02brother
918. 47:04Jared's Treasures
919. 47:10Perfect Ain't Nothing imperfect about
920. 47:13the Holy Ghost his treasure is perfect
921. 47:16but somehow in the infinite wisdom of
922. 47:19God God has decided to place his
923. 47:23treasure
924. 47:25infallible fras
925. 47:29weak Earth and
926. 47:34vessels oh man if somebody here had a
927. 47:36big had a gold bar don't you wish you
928. 47:40had a gold
929. 47:42bar I got preach friends that collects
930. 47:45gold
931. 47:46bars he's kind of waiting for the
932. 47:49economy to
933. 47:51fall he ain't got him sitting on his
934. 47:53front
935. 47:55porch he he ain't got him in a
936. 47:59box cardboard box in the backyard you
937. 48:03know where he's got his them gold bars
938. 48:05at he got a big old
939. 48:09safe and he's got them gold bars in that
940. 48:12safe and I don't even know if his wife
941. 48:14knows the
942. 48:18combination he's guarding them them bars
943. 48:21of I don't know how much a bar be worth
944. 48:22but they're what's a th000 some odd
945. 48:25dollars an ounce now is
946. 48:27all you gold collectors you should know
947. 48:29brother brother Samuel knows amen them
948. 48:33gold bars
949. 48:35worse there were so many, an ounce
950. 48:40now see Brother Andy said $ 1300 so you
951. 48:43can tell
952. 48:45$1,300 an
953. 48:47ounce and uh so he he's got them in this
954. 48:49safe and they got
955. 48:53what2 $20,800 for a
956. 48:58pound well 20 20,000 you know is
957. 49:03not nobody just has a $20,000 laying
958. 49:06around even if you even if you're Donald
959. 49:09J
960. 49:12Trump I mean you got that protected you
961. 49:15know huh
962. 49:18right but
963. 49:21God in God's infinite wisdom that that
964. 49:24money cannot buy
965. 49:29that that's more V that's value is
966. 49:31without
967. 49:33price he stuck it in
968. 49:36OED and stuck it in you and stuck oh
969. 49:40glory be to
970. 49:45God it's not that he trust you that much
971. 49:48but he trust the treasure woo glory be
972. 49:52to God God's got more confidence in the
973. 49:56Treasure then he's got in the container
974. 49:58matter of fact it's the treasure that's
975. 50:01going to preserve the container it's not
976. 50:04going to be the container that oh glory
977. 50:07to God that preserves the
978. 50:11treasure it's what inside is preserving
979. 50:15what is outside it is not what's outside
980. 50:18that is preserving what is
981. 50:20inside oh glory be to
982. 50:25God lord write that down that just came
983. 50:28to me by inspiration praise the Lord
984. 50:31hallelujah I'm going to do like old
985. 50:33Jared Darter I'm going to write that
986. 50:35down use that again praise the
987. 50:38Lord what does it say I got to close
988. 50:41that the Excellency
989. 50:46of cause when old brother Thad makes
990. 50:52it when oh brother Thad makes it
991. 50:57brother Ronald makes it brother Anthony
992. 50:59makes it they're not going to be able to
993. 51:00RAR back their shoulders and
994. 51:04say you look what I
995. 51:08done oh they're going to know they're
996. 51:10kept I that treasure that lived inside
997. 51:14of me kept me through my trials kept me
998. 51:18through my struggle kept me through my
999. 51:21Temptation Oh Glory to God the treasure
1000. 51:24preserved me Hallelujah
1001. 51:27kept by the power of
1002. 51:29God
1003. 51:34yes we got the treasure we got the
1004. 51:37treasure but we're troubled on every
1005. 51:40side but we're not distressed we're
1006. 51:43hindered but we're not
1007. 51:46defeated hindered but not
1008. 51:50defeated we are troubled on every side
1009. 51:53but not
1010. 51:54distressed we are perplexed
1011. 51:57we don't understand everything that
1012. 51:58we're going through we are
1013. 52:01perplexed but we're not in despair
1014. 52:04because we know it's all in his
1015. 52:07hands wow glory be to God I'm not making
1016. 52:10it on my own I'm not pulling myself up
1017. 52:13by my own bootstrap it is he that has
1018. 52:16made
1019. 52:18us and not we ourselves yes persecuted
1020. 52:22persecuted but not forsaken not forsaken
1021. 52:26cast down cast down not destroyed but
1022. 52:29we're not
1023. 52:30destroyed all right always bearing about
1024. 52:33the body yeah move on down to
1025. 52:36verse uh 16 yes for which we F not
1026. 52:46yes yes yes
1027. 52:50yes
1028. 52:54oh are
1029. 52:59our light
1030. 53:01Affliction our light Affliction is what
1031. 53:06but for which is but for a moment let me
1032. 53:08read you his light
1033. 53:09afflictions 2 Corinthians 11 and verse
1034. 53:13number
1035. 53:1523 in labors more more abundant in
1036. 53:19Stripes above measure in prisons more
1037. 53:22frequent in deaths often of the Jews
1038. 53:26five times I received 40 Stripes save
1039. 53:29one Thrice I was beaten with rods once I
1040. 53:32was stoned Thrice I suffered shipwreck a
1041. 53:36night and a day I've been in the deep in
1042. 53:38jours often in the pearls of water in
1043. 53:42the pearls of Robert and the pearls of
1044. 53:44my own countrymen in Pearls by the
1045. 53:47Heathen in pearls in the city in pearls
1046. 53:50in the wilderness in pearls in the sea
1047. 53:53in pearls among false brethren in weary
1048. 53:56ESS and painfulness in watchings often
1049. 54:00in hunger and in thirst and in fastings
1050. 54:03often in cold and in
1051. 54:11nakedness Paul said my light
1052. 54:16Affliction you going to backslide cuz
1053. 54:18you got a pink slip come
1054. 54:21on you don't quit church cuz somebody
1055. 54:23said something about you right you're an
1056. 54:25old little delivered
1057. 54:29coward well glory to God well praise God
1058. 54:33praise God hey devil I might be hindered
1059. 54:37but I'm not
1060. 54:46defeated what Paul's saying Paul's
1061. 54:49saying bring it on Big
1062. 54:51Buddy bring the next one on down it's F
1063. 54:54you know what I think about all this
1064. 54:55trouble I believe it's a light
1065. 54:58Affliction it's a light
1066. 55:01[Music]
1067. 55:01[Applause]
1068. 55:07Affliction and it only last a
1069. 55:10moment cause when you weigh
1070. 55:14life against
1071. 55:18eternity it's not even one grain of dust
1072. 55:21on a
1073. 55:23scale woo when you get that scale scale
1074. 55:27and here's
1075. 55:28eternity and here's
1076. 55:30life
1077. 55:32man how many folks have you known that
1078. 55:35lived a
1079. 55:36hundred I I've only known maybe a
1080. 55:39handful not very many people I know live
1081. 55:41a
1082. 55:43100 I have known a few not very
1083. 55:48many but it looks we ain't going to make
1084. 55:50it praise the
1085. 55:51Lord but if you live to be 100 right
1086. 55:56what's a 100 years upside
1087. 56:00eternity I mean it's a grain of sand
1088. 56:02it's just a it's a grain of sand on that
1089. 56:05weight and and the weight is your grain
1090. 56:09of Sand's up
1091. 56:11here and the scale is so un unbalanced
1092. 56:14down here because they're working for us
1093. 56:17a far more exceeding
1094. 56:20Eternal weight of Glory go go ahead
1095. 56:24while we look n at the things which are
1096. 56:25seen we're not going to let those things
1097. 56:28that are
1098. 56:28seen that comes our way they're real I'm
1099. 56:32not saying they're not real they're
1100. 56:35real they are very
1101. 56:38real but you know what just beyond what
1102. 56:41I'm things that I'm seeing that are
1103. 56:44real they're
1104. 56:47temporal your trial is not going to last
1105. 56:50always your trouble's not going to last
1106. 56:52forever if your sickness takes you out
1107. 56:54of here
1108. 56:57if you're if you're not healed and your
1109. 56:59sickness takes you out of here it's
1110. 57:03temporal but
1111. 57:05I'm Paul
1112. 57:07said I've got my own the
1113. 57:10prize I'm looking at that that is
1114. 57:12eternal I'm not going to trade that
1115. 57:14that's
1116. 57:16Eternal a few moments of of temporal
1117. 57:20pleasure for all that
1118. 57:23glorious that God has prepared for me in
1119. 57:27eternity new body new heaven new Earth
1120. 57:33no
1121. 57:33sorrow no pain no care no
1122. 57:41trouble so I just come to tell the
1123. 57:44devil in case any of you is working for
1124. 57:47him praise the
1125. 57:48Lord I come to tell you this morning I
1126. 57:51may be
1127. 57:54hindered but I'm not defeated
1128. 57:59praise the
1129. 58:00Lord not
1130. 58:02defeated I got my eyes on the
1131. 58:04prize glory to
1132. 58:15God not going to sing it but I quote it
1133. 58:18to you had a friend of mine wrote this
1134. 58:20song Kentucky years ago he said Satan
1135. 58:23came to me one
1136. 58:24morning spoke to to me without a warning
1137. 58:28why don't you just quit or compromise I
1138. 58:30said listen to me devil with you I'm
1139. 58:33going to live I'm not quitting my eyes
1140. 58:36is on the prize I made my decision I've
1141. 58:40got a greater vision of that Heavenly
1142. 58:43bridegroom in the sky Satan get behind
1143. 58:46me one day you ain't going to find me
1144. 58:49I'm going to be gone my eyes is on the
1145. 58:51prize I like this verse said every they
1146. 58:54arise I plead his blood across my mind I
1147. 58:58say devil you're in for a big surprise
1148. 59:01come on in like a flood I drowned you in
1149. 59:05Jesus blood I'm not quitting my
1150. 59:09eyes is on the pride can you raise your
1151. 59:12hand and love him glory to
1152. 59:17God praise the Lord hallelujah let's
1153. 59:21stand and praise the Lord
1154. 59:31glory
1155. 59:43glory glor to
1156. 59:46God glory to God got my eyes on the
1157. 59:51prize little trial and test here it'll
1158. 59:55be over after a while
1159. 59:56God to give whatever you're going
1160. 59:58through with s of God God will give you
1161. 1:00:00strength Don't
1162. 1:00:03Panic amen just give it to the Lord Lord
1163. 1:00:05there it is it's in your hands out of my
1164. 1:00:08hands