The Loyalty of God - Bishop T.D. Jakes — Transcript

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1. 0:04[Music]
2. 0:12it's
3. 0:13time for the word of god i want to get
4. 0:14into the word of god today
5. 0:16i want to unfold some complexities in
6. 0:19the word of god i'm going to need your
7. 0:20patience today
8. 0:22i've got something to share with you i
9. 0:24want to talk to you out of the romans
10. 0:26chapter 11 verse 1 through 5
11. 0:28and i believe you're going to be blessed
12. 0:30as we talk about
13. 0:32the loyalty of god we're living in a
14. 0:35time today
15. 0:36that you can't hardly find loyalty not
16. 0:38even in places you ought to have loyalty
17. 0:41you can't find loyalty not even in
18. 0:43relationships
19. 0:44not even in relatives do you always find
20. 0:46loyalty
21. 0:47not with companies not with positions
22. 0:49not with churches
23. 0:50no no no no loyalty is almost extinct
24. 0:55but today we're going to talk about the
25. 0:56loyalty of god
26. 0:58romans chapter 11 verse 1 through 5 when
27. 1:02you have it say amen
28. 1:04stand for the reading of god's word it
29. 1:06is our custom to stand for the reading
30. 1:08of his word
31. 1:09as we go before god in his word it is
32. 1:11reverence
33. 1:12to the fidelity and the sanctity of
34. 1:14god's word
35. 1:16i say then hath god cast away his people
36. 1:22god forbid for i also
37. 1:26am an israelite of the seed of abraham
38. 1:30of the tribe of benjamin
39. 1:34god hath not cast away his people which
40. 1:37he foreknew
41. 1:38what ye not what the scripture saith of
42. 1:42elias how he maketh intercession to god
43. 1:45against israel saying lord they have
44. 1:48killed thy prophets and dig down thine
45. 1:52altars and i
46. 1:53am left check this out i am left alone
47. 1:56and they
48. 1:57seek my life
49. 2:00but what saith the answer of god unto
50. 2:02him i have reserved to myself seven
51. 2:05thousand men who have not bowed the need
52. 2:08to the image of baal
53. 2:10even so then at this present time also
54. 2:14there is a remnant according to the
55. 2:17election
56. 2:18of grace can you say
57. 2:22amen father god in the name of jesus we
58. 2:26ask you to bless the sanctity of your
59. 2:27word
60. 2:29enable these mere fallible frail lips of
61. 2:32clay to articulate
62. 2:34the oracles of truth in such a didactic
63. 2:37and profound and prolific way that it
64. 2:39penetrates
65. 2:40the exterior of our carnal hearts and
66. 2:43goes down into the depths
67. 2:45of our deepest being and there
68. 2:48germinates and brings forth the
69. 2:49character of christ in our lives
70. 2:51it is our prayer that you would be
71. 2:53glorified and that hell would be
72. 2:55horrified
73. 2:56as we delve into the treasures of your
74. 2:58word
75. 3:00i thank you for what you're about to do
76. 3:02in the midst of your people today
77. 3:04have your way in jesus name somebody
78. 3:07give him the best praise you got
79. 3:13in our text today we have a very
80. 3:15interesting thing because here
81. 3:17paul contemplates with rome has god
82. 3:21forever cast away his people
83. 3:24the very question challenges
84. 3:27not just the character of his people but
85. 3:29it teaches us
86. 3:31the character of our god because the
87. 3:33character of our god is
88. 3:35often proven best as we explore the
89. 3:38frailty of our own character
90. 3:40that is to say the more inconsistent and
91. 3:44frail and weaker we are the
92. 3:46greater he appears to us as we see him
93. 3:49amidst the canvas
94. 3:50of all types of infidelities
95. 3:53insecurities
96. 3:55inconsistencies it makes god look the
97. 3:57better when everything else around you
98. 3:59begins to shake
99. 4:00and there's nothing solid left to stand
100. 4:02on but god we must then
101. 4:04understand not just israel but god
102. 4:06through the
103. 4:07declaration of this word hath god
104. 4:10forever cast away his people has god
105. 4:12forgotten
106. 4:13his people has god gotten angry
107. 4:17and walked away from his own this is an
108. 4:19opportunity to understand something
109. 4:21about ourselves
110. 4:23and about our god expressed through the
111. 4:24book of romans
112. 4:27paul begins to deal with this whole
113. 4:29theme the gospel it's the power of god
114. 4:32for salvation
115. 4:33for anyone who believes he does it
116. 4:36because he wants us to understand
117. 4:38this letter by stating clearly the real
118. 4:40good news is not about the
119. 4:42emperor or the empire what's going on in
120. 4:44the world but the real
121. 4:45power for salvation comes from god
122. 4:49not the emperor or the empire or
123. 4:52the strength of rome or anything like
124. 4:54that because the truth of the matter
125. 4:57rome was not going through such a good
126. 4:59time you're talking about the writing of
127. 5:01this book in about 56 or 57 a.d
128. 5:05it's the time that paul the apostle paul
129. 5:07has written a letter to rome that he has
130. 5:10yet to visit and so unlike the other
131. 5:13epistles that he's written where he is
132. 5:15calling a lot of names and directing his
133. 5:18attention to
134. 5:19the issues of the church at rome he is
135. 5:22talking to us from a
136. 5:23much higher level and a deeper
137. 5:25perspective as he
138. 5:27unveils the truth of what is going on
139. 5:29let me lay in context the environment in
140. 5:31which things
141. 5:32are germinating in this environment nero
142. 5:36has come to power and nero comes to
143. 5:38power from about
144. 5:39uh december 15th of of 37 a.d to june
145. 5:449th of 68 a.d he was the roman
146. 5:48emperor ruling uh from 54 to 68
147. 5:53in control of anything and everything
148. 5:55that was going on
149. 5:56rome is still considered the force to be
150. 5:59reckoned
151. 5:59with the political empire of the entire
152. 6:02planet
153. 6:03in a class all by himself as nero has
154. 6:06come into power
155. 6:08his infamous reign is usually associated
156. 6:11with tyranny
157. 6:12extravagance and debauchery he he
158. 6:16he later converted to christianity and
159. 6:18yet we are still suspect
160. 6:20even when he converted was he
161. 6:21legitimately a christian or was it a
162. 6:23political play for the times in which he
163. 6:26lived
164. 6:27that in part is brought about by the
165. 6:28fact that on june
166. 6:309th of 68 a.d nero killed himself
167. 6:35so you have this leader who comes into
168. 6:37power
169. 6:38and influence at about 17 years old
170. 6:42and about 17 years old with his mother's
171. 6:44guidance he is able
172. 6:46to rule over the roman empire
173. 6:49uh with authority great authority
174. 6:53but five years later he killed his own
175. 6:55mother
176. 6:56he was a ruthless tyrant and he was
177. 6:58ruling over a group of people
178. 7:00who had a lot of different religions and
179. 7:02a lot of different ideas and a lot of
180. 7:04different
181. 7:05theological connotations and it is in
182. 7:07this environment that paul is writing to
183. 7:09them
184. 7:11the scene of religious power has begun
185. 7:13to make a transition so now
186. 7:15i'm talking about the transition because
187. 7:16i want you to understand
188. 7:18not only the times i talk to you about
189. 7:20the times
190. 7:21now i'm going to talk to you about the
191. 7:22transition to go from the times to
192. 7:25understand the times that the text
193. 7:27was written in helps you to understand
194. 7:29the text itself
195. 7:30if you take a text that was written for
196. 7:33a period of time
197. 7:35that was up under the rule of nero and
198. 7:37you can temporarize it without
199. 7:38understanding
200. 7:39that what was going on at the times
201. 7:42really controls the impact of the text
202. 7:45itself
203. 7:45then you begin to understand that there
204. 7:47is a transition going on
205. 7:49so point one is the times point two is
206. 7:52the transition
207. 7:53transition what transition the seat of
208. 7:56spiritual influence
209. 7:57has begun to move from jerusalem to rome
210. 8:02it is moving largely because the jews
211. 8:05are
212. 8:06for the most part rejecting christianity
213. 8:09as as a legitimate theology and they're
214. 8:12finding a home amongst the gentiles that
215. 8:14they did not have
216. 8:16amongst the jews and so even though
217. 8:18jerusalem
218. 8:19is still the motherland of our faith
219. 8:22it is the grandmother of our heritage it
220. 8:24is the roots in which our faith is
221. 8:26extrapolated from yet the early days
222. 8:30of christianity moved and transitioned
223. 8:33from jerusalem as ahead
224. 8:35to rome hence you have the roman
225. 8:36catholic church and all of the various
226. 8:39orthodox
227. 8:40uh religions of that first century begin
228. 8:42to flourish
229. 8:43largely out of rome when paul writes to
230. 8:46rome
231. 8:47it is his biggest writing it is his
232. 8:49longest writing because he is writing
233. 8:51to what is and not what was jerusalem
234. 8:55has for the most part turned its back on
235. 8:57the idea of christ
236. 8:59being the messiah except for a remnant
237. 9:03in jerusalem and a remnant of jews
238. 9:05scattered throughout the despara
239. 9:07who embrace christianity the vast
240. 9:09majority of judaism
241. 9:11has turned its back on the notion of
242. 9:13christ being a legitimate messiah so the
243. 9:16seat
244. 9:16of religious power now has come to rome
245. 9:20constantine's mother who would later
246. 9:22come along
247. 9:23she is responsible for the spread of
248. 9:26christianity
249. 9:27history says because she is purportedly
250. 9:30the one
251. 9:31who actually found the cross and rather
252. 9:34than to have people
253. 9:35fighting over it broke it down into
254. 9:37splinters and sent pieces of it
255. 9:39all over the world and each part of the
256. 9:41world that got a hope to a piece of the
257. 9:43cross
258. 9:44cost the gospel to spread across the
259. 9:46world in an unprecedented way
260. 9:50god has a way of using some of the most
261. 9:52unorthodox people to
262. 9:54to get done what he's trying to get done
263. 9:57he's trying to create a transition
264. 9:59and it's a transition not only of the
265. 10:00seat of power but the
266. 10:02influence of that power because
267. 10:04christianity was initially considered a
268. 10:06cult
269. 10:07but out of the ground of that cult came
270. 10:10such a powerful move of the holy spirit
271. 10:12that you could not deny that it was
272. 10:14sweeping the world and could not be
273. 10:16stopped by scribes nor scholars
274. 10:19nor statisticians or historians it had
275. 10:22caught on fire and god used this one
276. 10:24woman
277. 10:25to help spread the gospel and it was
278. 10:28going everywhere but the power
279. 10:30started out of rome and what rome was
280. 10:33starting to understand
281. 10:35the christian faith so paul here is an
282. 10:37apostle
283. 10:38not just to the jew but the gentile his
284. 10:41question
285. 10:42in the text however he is he's saddened
286. 10:44by the fact
287. 10:45that his people for the most part have
288. 10:47turned away
289. 10:50they have turned their backs on god and
290. 10:51gone in other directions
291. 10:53and sought god as he was and not as he
292. 10:55is
293. 10:56and paul is saying has god forever
294. 10:59forgotten his people israel are we
295. 11:02cursed
296. 11:02are we up under a bondage it is to this
297. 11:05issue that he addresses
298. 11:06the longevity of the fact that god will
299. 11:09stand with you through changes
300. 11:12now it's important that we understand
301. 11:14that because we need to understand that
302. 11:16god
303. 11:16is right when we are wrong that god is
304. 11:20strong when we are weak
305. 11:22that god is there when we are stray
306. 11:25and it is only the integrity of god
307. 11:28that establishes our faith our faith is
308. 11:30not built on a man our faith is not
309. 11:32built on a preacher
310. 11:33our faith is not built on a building our
311. 11:35faith is not built on a denomination
312. 11:38our faith is built on the integrity of
313. 11:40god
314. 11:41and that integrity includes a loyalty
315. 11:45a loyalty so strong that it is beyond
316. 11:48human comprehension and it is about that
317. 11:50loyalty
318. 11:51that we're preaching about today and
319. 11:53it's hard to preach about something for
320. 11:55which there is no metaphor
321. 11:57when jesus comes and preaches the
322. 11:58kingdom he keeps saying the kingdom
323. 12:00is lacking unto this and the kingdom is
324. 12:02lagging unto that and the kingdom is
325. 12:04lacking unto that
326. 12:05but when it comes to the loyalty of god
327. 12:08i'm unable to find a metaphor
328. 12:10that rightly depicts the strength and
329. 12:12the power the loyalty of god
330. 12:14what can i say about the lord only only
331. 12:16thing i can think of to say
332. 12:18is that god kept his promise to abraham
333. 12:21when abraham was
334. 12:22dead abraham was dead and for 400 years
335. 12:27israel was enslaved in egypt and god
336. 12:30still
337. 12:31brought israel out of enslavement from
338. 12:34egypt because he had given his word
339. 12:37to a dead man you have a god that says
340. 12:41that i'm not a man that i should allow
341. 12:42the son of man that i should repent
342. 12:44have i not spoken it will i not make it
343. 12:46good and the reason i'm sharing it with
344. 12:48you today
345. 12:49because just as as the times were in
346. 12:52rome
347. 12:52just as indecisive as the times were in
348. 12:55rome
349. 12:56that same indecisiveness exists today
350. 12:59in our country and other countries
351. 13:01around the world where you don't know
352. 13:02from day to day what's going to happen
353. 13:04this one fighting against that one in
354. 13:06fact rome was on the brink of
355. 13:08civil war a civil war where there would
356. 13:11be fighting between traditional jews
357. 13:13and the roman empire that almost split
358. 13:15the country and now
359. 13:17in a tribal time in our country where
360. 13:20everybody's mad at everybody
361. 13:21and everybody's fighting about
362. 13:23everything and everybody's at war with
363. 13:25everybody else
364. 13:26and everybody it's one thing to disagree
365. 13:28but now we hate people
366. 13:30that are not on our team that are not on
367. 13:32our side and if you wonder if we're not
368. 13:35going to run into what rome ran into
369. 13:40internal corruption ended up destroying
370. 13:43the roman empire
371. 13:45and when i look at america today i want
372. 13:47to talk directly to america today you're
373. 13:49on the brink of total destruction
374. 13:51not because we have disagreements but
375. 13:54because we have disloyalty
376. 13:56and disjointedness and because we have
377. 13:58divided
378. 13:59and a house divided against itself shall
379. 14:02not stand
380. 14:03it is in the midst of that division that
381. 14:06god sends a word
382. 14:07i love god because god doesn't need a
383. 14:11perfect situation to send a perfect word
384. 14:14he'll send a word into a chaotic
385. 14:16situation he'll remind you that he's
386. 14:18still
387. 14:19god in the midst of it all and i wanted
388. 14:21you to understand that rome was going
389. 14:23through what america is going through
390. 14:25what other countries around the world
391. 14:26are going through anarchy and
392. 14:28deceitfulness and betrayal
393. 14:31and denials and uncertainty and every
394. 14:33day you woke up in rome you didn't know
395. 14:35what was gonna happen next
396. 14:37and still in the midst of all of that
397. 14:39god was still faithful
398. 14:42he had not cast away his people even
399. 14:45when his people cast him away
400. 14:47but the bible said that jesus came unto
401. 14:49his own and his own received him not
402. 14:51but in spite of the fact that they did
403. 14:53not receive him god still had a
404. 14:55commitment to be loyal to them
405. 14:57in fact one writer says that god is
406. 14:59married to the backslider
407. 15:01i want to talk to somebody who's drifted
408. 15:03away or turned your back on god or gone
409. 15:05into another direction
410. 15:06and now you're guilty and full of shame
411. 15:08and you've done some things
412. 15:10of which you are ashamed of you've had
413. 15:11an abortion you've had a baby out of
414. 15:13wedlock
415. 15:14you've gone this way or that way into
416. 15:16perversion or idolatry
417. 15:18or other religions i want you to know
418. 15:19that god is still right where
419. 15:22you left off and you have unfinished
420. 15:24business with god
421. 15:26this text is about unfinished business
422. 15:28with god
423. 15:29that god is not slack concerning his
424. 15:32promise
425. 15:32as some man counts like this he's still
426. 15:35waiting on you to come to yourself and
427. 15:37that god
428. 15:37has not forever cast you way i know the
429. 15:40devil wants to tell you
430. 15:41that god has cast your way i know the
431. 15:44devil wants you to feel hopeless
432. 15:46so that you have an excuse to go further
433. 15:48and further
434. 15:49into your own degradation but the devil
435. 15:51is
436. 15:52a liar god is still right where you left
437. 15:54him
438. 15:55ask the prodigal son if the father won't
439. 15:57outweigh
440. 15:58you he'll stand right where he stood
441. 16:01and see you still my son and i still
442. 16:04love you
443. 16:04and i'm right where you left me and if
444. 16:06you come to yourself
445. 16:08i'll bring you up out of the market
446. 16:09tomorrow i want to speak to america
447. 16:11and say if we just come to ourselves god
448. 16:14is waiting on us to come to ourselves
449. 16:16and understand who we are so that we can
450. 16:18begin to stand in the power and the
451. 16:20grace
452. 16:21and the anointing of god i am the lord
453. 16:23thy god
454. 16:24i change not i change not my mercies are
455. 16:28new
456. 16:28every morning i'm consistent i'm stable
457. 16:31your mama is shaky but i'm stable
458. 16:34your father is shaking but i'm stable
459. 16:36your husband is shaking but i'm stable
460. 16:38your wife is shaky but i'm stable your
461. 16:41job is shaky but i'm stable
462. 16:43your finances are shaking but i'm stable
463. 16:45the stock market is shaking
464. 16:47but i'm stable your friends are shaking
465. 16:49but i'm stable i'm
466. 16:51god i'm a rock i'm a rock i'm a stone
467. 16:54i'm a sure place i'm an absolute in a
468. 16:57chaotic world
469. 16:58i do not have alzheimer's i have not
470. 17:02forgotten you
471. 17:03i know you
472. 17:06i know you you think it's about you
473. 17:10knowing me no it's not about
474. 17:12you knowing me it's about me knowing you
475. 17:16i know you in fact i knew you the text
476. 17:20says i
477. 17:20foreknew you god has not forgotten those
478. 17:24he
479. 17:24foreknew nothing about the times nothing
480. 17:27about the world
481. 17:28nothing about the violence nothing about
482. 17:30the chaos nothing about the plagues
483. 17:32nothing about the disease
484. 17:33nothing about the presidency nothing
485. 17:35about the leadership nothing about the
486. 17:37election nothing about the nation
487. 17:38has caused god to forget who you are to
488. 17:40him by the way
489. 17:42our nation is not of this world our
490. 17:45kingdom is not of this world
491. 17:47our king is not of this world we have a
492. 17:49king
493. 17:50his name is jesus and he said i'm still
494. 17:53here
495. 17:53the same yesterday today and forevermore
496. 17:57i am the lord thy god
497. 18:00i change not i'm going to say that again
498. 18:03i
499. 18:03am the lord thy god i change not
500. 18:07i am the lord thy god i
501. 18:10change not lord that's good news
502. 18:15that's good news when you live in a
503. 18:16world where you don't know you meet the
504. 18:18same person you met on monday and wonder
505. 18:20wednesday is that the same person
506. 18:23the person who promised you love on
507. 18:25wednesday has
508. 18:26got your divorce papers on tuesday you
509. 18:28don't know what's going to happen from
510. 18:29day to day
511. 18:30the company who said they appreciated
512. 18:32you let you go next week you don't know
513. 18:34what's going on god said i'm not like
514. 18:36any of them
515. 18:39i have not forgotten you
516. 18:42because i foreknew you i for
517. 18:46knew you like jesus for knew john
518. 18:49before he met him in the jordan river he
519. 18:52had met him in his mother's womb
520. 18:54the babies had leaped when the women had
521. 18:56kissed they were filled with the holy
522. 18:58ghost
523. 18:59god said your relationship with me did
524. 19:01not start with your birthday
525. 19:03i foreknew you before i formed thee in
526. 19:06the belly i knew thee
527. 19:07i ordained thee and i sanctified thee to
528. 19:10be a prophet unto the nation
529. 19:12i am your god not your buddy i am your
530. 19:14god not your friend
531. 19:16i am your god not your daddy i'm not a
532. 19:18dead be dead i'm not somebody that will
533. 19:20reject you
534. 19:21i'm not a woman who didn't want to have
535. 19:22a baby i will not abort my promise
536. 19:24concerning you
537. 19:25i am your god and i'm in it when you're
538. 19:28out of it
539. 19:29and i'm standing here when you fail and
540. 19:31i'm strong
541. 19:32when you're weak and i'm healing when
542. 19:34you're sick and i'm life
543. 19:35when you're dead and i'm peace when
544. 19:37you're confused i'm god
545. 19:40i changed not this point in the text he
546. 19:44begins to teach
547. 19:45the people of god to understand from a
548. 19:4740 000 foot view
549. 19:49that god has a plan for his people and
550. 19:52he weaves throughout the book of romans
551. 19:54the plan of god talking first about the
552. 19:57gentiles
553. 19:57and then about the jews weaving it
554. 20:00together and about
555. 20:01chapter 3 3 or 4 he concludes him all in
556. 20:04unbelief
557. 20:05and makes both the jew and the gentile
558. 20:07come into one door
559. 20:08and that is the door of faith why do we
560. 20:11come to god
561. 20:12by faith because if we came by facts
562. 20:16we'd have to have intelligence in order
563. 20:19to come
564. 20:20he had to fix the door where the
565. 20:22illiterate and the intellectual would
566. 20:24come through the same door
567. 20:25i'm proud of your degrees i'm proud of
568. 20:27your accomplishment
569. 20:28i'm proud of the many accolades that
570. 20:30have been bestowed upon you
571. 20:31but you don't get to god because you're
572. 20:34smart
573. 20:35you get to god because you believe and
574. 20:37if you believe
575. 20:38god it is counted under you as
576. 20:40righteousness if you're going to impress
577. 20:42god it's not your money that impresses
578. 20:45god it's your faith
579. 20:46without your faith it is impossible to
580. 20:49please
581. 20:49god that's the text we have before us
582. 20:52today
583. 20:54that's the text we had before the common
584. 20:56denominator
585. 20:57that brings both the jew and the gentile
586. 21:00rushing through the same door
587. 21:02there is therefore now no condemnation
588. 21:04to them that are in christ jesus
589. 21:06who walked no longer after the flesh but
590. 21:08after the spirit that's the god that
591. 21:10we're talking about right now
592. 21:13that's the god that's before us in this
593. 21:15text who's faithful when you are foolish
594. 21:19i said he is faithful when you are
595. 21:21foolish i know you need to act like
596. 21:23you've never been foolish
597. 21:24but the truth of the matter there's not
598. 21:26a person listening at me right now
599. 21:27who has not been foolish and walked in
600. 21:29your own way
601. 21:30and walked away from god and did your
602. 21:32own thing and had to come stumbling back
603. 21:34to the cross
604. 21:35asking god for mercy and he was right
605. 21:38where you left him
606. 21:39he was there all the time
607. 21:43he was there in your pain and in your
608. 21:45suffering and your agony
609. 21:46god has not forgotten his people
610. 21:50say that with me god has not forgotten
611. 21:54his people say it again god has not
612. 21:57forgotten
613. 21:58his people say it again god has not
614. 22:01forgotten his spirit said again god has
615. 22:05not
616. 22:05forgotten his people say it again god
617. 22:08has not
618. 22:09forgotten his people i have to tell you
619. 22:12this
620. 22:12blesses me i don't know what it does for
621. 22:14you but it blesses me
622. 22:16because i admit sometimes i feel
623. 22:18forgotten
624. 22:21i feel forgotten by everybody and
625. 22:23everything i've helped people
626. 22:24who forgot i've loaned money to people
627. 22:28who forgot
628. 22:29i've comforted people who forgot i stood
629. 22:32by people who forgot
630. 22:34i opened doors for people who forgot and
631. 22:37i have to admit that sometimes
632. 22:38it just gives me comfort to know that
633. 22:41god has not
634. 22:42forgotten me god has not forgotten the
635. 22:46bible said god is not unjust
636. 22:48to forget your labor of love and that
637. 22:50you have ministered to the saints
638. 22:52and do ministry that god remembers when
639. 22:55other people forget
640. 22:57god has not forgotten you know why god
641. 22:59is loyal
642. 23:01god is loyal god is consistent we're
643. 23:04talking about the loyalty of god
644. 23:06and the reason i'm ministering the
645. 23:08loyalty of god is because i'm
646. 23:10ministering the loyalty of god
647. 23:12in an atmosphere of total feelings
648. 23:15of abandonment i have never seen a year
649. 23:19like 2020
650. 23:21that has challenged us more deeply down
651. 23:23to the core of our existence
652. 23:26we feel abandoned by truth
653. 23:29abandoned by justice abandoned
654. 23:33by mercy abandoned by leadership
655. 23:37abandoned by families and friends and
656. 23:39the feeling
657. 23:40of abandonment is pervasive now excuse
658. 23:43me
659. 23:44if you don't get blessed because if you
660. 23:46never felt abandoned
661. 23:47then loyalty doesn't mean much but if
662. 23:49you've ever been abandoned
663. 23:51it's helpful to understand that god is
664. 23:53saying i will not do you like they did
665. 23:56i will not leave you like they did i
666. 23:59will not forget you
667. 24:01like they did i will not abuse you
668. 24:04like they did i will not forsake you
669. 24:08like they did god is saying i will not
670. 24:11treat you like you treat me
671. 24:17i will not abandon
672. 24:21you in spite of how you feel
673. 24:24in spite of your circumstance in spite
674. 24:27of your economy
675. 24:28in spite of your politics in spite of
676. 24:30your government in spite of your world
677. 24:32in spite of the chaos of the times
678. 24:35god says i'm still here in the pandemic
679. 24:39with you
680. 24:40in the fiery furnace with you i'm right
681. 24:43there with you in the unemployment line
682. 24:45i'm with you
683. 24:46in the hospital i'm with you in despair
684. 24:49i'm with you in feeling forsaken i'm
685. 24:53still with you
686. 24:54god is saying i am still
687. 24:57with you seek the lord while he may be
688. 25:00found
689. 25:00call ye upon him while he's yet near let
690. 25:03the wicked forsake his way
691. 25:05and the unrighteous man his thoughts i
692. 25:07am not like your father i will not
693. 25:09abandon you
694. 25:11i will comfort you as a hen gathers her
695. 25:15eggs i will comfort you i'm fighting
696. 25:18against the feeling
697. 25:20of abandonment every time you see
698. 25:24somebody shot down you feel abandoned
699. 25:27every time you see the wrong person
700. 25:29adjudicated and dismissed
701. 25:31from being apprehended and seeing
702. 25:33justice not work it makes you feel
703. 25:35abandoned every time you can't get in
704. 25:38the grocery store and buy what you need
705. 25:39and you have to watch everybody else
706. 25:41getting what they want
707. 25:42you feel abandoned every time justice
708. 25:44walks past your house
709. 25:45you feel abandoned every time people
710. 25:47look over top of you as if you're not a
711. 25:49person
712. 25:50you feel abandoned god said i'm not like
713. 25:52them
714. 25:53i will not abandon you
715. 25:56oh somebody type god is loyal
716. 26:00god is loyal with you in the storm and
717. 26:02in the test and in the trial
718. 26:04and god says you cannot afford to walk
719. 26:07in your feelings you cannot afford to
720. 26:11walk
721. 26:11in your emotions you cannot afford to
722. 26:14walk
723. 26:15in your abandonment you cannot afford to
724. 26:18walk
725. 26:18in your childhood you cannot afford to
726. 26:20walk in your trauma you cannot
727. 26:23afford to walk in your strife god
728. 26:26is loyalty we are talking about the
729. 26:29loyalty of god
730. 26:32then the writer goes further and he
731. 26:33starts giving the example
732. 26:36of elijah who has the feeling of
733. 26:39abandonment
734. 26:40not because he's not anointed you can be
735. 26:43anointed and still feel abandoned
736. 26:45elijah is anointed he called down fire
737. 26:48on mount carmel
738. 26:50he called out fire on mount carmel he
739. 26:52overcame all the prophets of baal
740. 26:54he rose up against him he called down
741. 26:56fire
742. 26:57swallowed up 450 prophets of baal and
743. 27:00turned around and ran like a little girl
744. 27:03because you can be anointed
745. 27:05and still feel abandoned and he said i'm
746. 27:07running
747. 27:08not just because i'm afraid of jezebel
748. 27:10i'm running
749. 27:11not just because i'm worried about ahab
750. 27:13i'm running because i feel
751. 27:16alone and i want to talk to some people
752. 27:19who feel alone
753. 27:22alone in your house alone in your
754. 27:24apartment
755. 27:25alone by yourself alone in your marriage
756. 27:30yeah you can be married and still be
757. 27:32alone alone
758. 27:33in your ministry alone in your faith and
759. 27:36you
760. 27:37feel abandoned and forsaken and you're
761. 27:40by yourself that's what made
762. 27:42elijah run and that's why paul brings
763. 27:44him up
764. 27:45in the text elijah was running
765. 27:48from a feeling it wasn't just a woman
766. 27:52he said i'm running because i'm alone
767. 27:55and i'm by myself i killed the prophets
768. 27:57i got the victory
769. 27:58but what good is victory if i'm
770. 28:00abandoned
771. 28:03i want to talk to people who have great
772. 28:05victory and you feel guilty
773. 28:07because you're not enjoying your victory
774. 28:09because you feel abandoned
775. 28:11and you feel forsaken and you thought
776. 28:13victory would be better and you got the
777. 28:15job and you got the house and you got
778. 28:16the car
779. 28:17and you forgot how blessed you are
780. 28:18because none of it brought you the joy
781. 28:21that you thought it was going to bring
782. 28:22you and there you begin to recognize the
783. 28:25house as just a bill
784. 28:26and the car is just a note to be paid
785. 28:29and all of a sudden you've got all of
786. 28:30this stuff
787. 28:31but you're wondering why you're running
788. 28:32you're running because you feel alone
789. 28:36and elijah was feeling alone
790. 28:39and he gets up under the juniper tree
791. 28:40and he says i am
792. 28:42alone i'm anointed but i'm alone i'm
793. 28:45gifted but i'm alone
794. 28:47i'm i'm powerful but i'm by myself there
795. 28:50are
796. 28:50none left but me i am by myself
797. 28:55and god says to him are you crazy
798. 28:58i've got seven thousand that have not
799. 29:01bound to bail nor kiss
800. 29:03and nasty i mean i got people you never
801. 29:05met yet
802. 29:06i got doors in front of you that you
803. 29:08haven't even seen yet
804. 29:09i got blessings you haven't even touched
805. 29:11yet i got revelations you haven't even
806. 29:14seen yet
807. 29:15i got power you haven't even touched yet
808. 29:17i got
809. 29:18victory you haven't even laid don't you
810. 29:20know i am god
811. 29:21i'm still god i'm god in the face of
812. 29:25ahab i'm god in the face of jezebel
813. 29:28and god in the face of rome i'm gone in
814. 29:31the face of america
815. 29:32i'm god in the unemployment line i'm god
816. 29:35in the hospital room
817. 29:36i'm gone in a time of trouble of god in
818. 29:40a time of agony
819. 29:41i'm god in your affliction i'm god in
820. 29:44your divorce
821. 29:45i'm god in your crisis i am
822. 29:48god i'm not your boyfriend i'm god
823. 29:52i'm not your girlfriend i'm god
824. 29:55oh god you don't hear me i feel the
825. 29:57anointing i feel the anointing of the
826. 29:59holy ghost we're talking about
827. 30:01the loyalty of god and we're weighing it
828. 30:04against the feelings of men
829. 30:06and the feelings of man says i am alone
830. 30:09and i am abandoned
831. 30:11and i am forsaken and i am here by
832. 30:13myself
833. 30:14and the loyalty of god says that
834. 30:17is a lie i've got resources
835. 30:22you haven't touched yet and to somebody
836. 30:25listening
837. 30:25at me right now i'm calling on a
838. 30:28revolution
839. 30:29in your mind to stop coming to god
840. 30:32talking about how you feel
841. 30:34and start talking to god about who he is
842. 30:37stop going to god and talk about i feel
843. 30:38like when i feel like giving up
844. 30:40i feel like walking away i don't feel
845. 30:42appreciated i don't feel
846. 30:44this is you don't come to god by
847. 30:46feelings you come to god by faith
848. 30:48and in order to have faith you got to
849. 30:50start talking god
850. 30:51talk you can't be talking man talk you
851. 30:54got to talk god
852. 30:55talk you can't be telling god what's
853. 30:57wrong god already knows what's wrong
854. 31:00if you're going to come to him you got
855. 31:01to come by faith stop whining to god
856. 31:04god is not your therapist god is not
857. 31:06your counselor
858. 31:08god would not know when you were potty
859. 31:09trained he doesn't need to know when you
860. 31:11were potty praying
861. 31:12you don't need to bring your doubt bring
862. 31:15your
863. 31:15faith god i thank you you're loyal
864. 31:19god i thank you you're faithful god i
865. 31:21think you're you're consistent
866. 31:23god i thank you you're able god i think
867. 31:26that you got power
868. 31:27god i thank you you've got mercy god i
869. 31:30know who you are
870. 31:31i mean i see him but i know you got help
871. 31:34i know you got
872. 31:35profits i know you got to help i know
873. 31:37you got resources
874. 31:39god said i've got 7 000 prophets man
875. 31:43that you have not even seen i want to
876. 31:47close talking to you
877. 31:48about what you have not seen
878. 31:51you keep praying about what you see
879. 31:55and god keeps talking about what you
880. 31:57don't see
881. 31:59elijah is running because of what he
882. 32:01sees
883. 32:02god is talking to him about what you you
884. 32:04don't see i've got
885. 32:067 000 prophets that have not vowed to
886. 32:08build nor kiss a nasty image
887. 32:10you are not in this thing by yourself i
888. 32:12got help you haven't touched yet
889. 32:14i've got resources you haven't built
890. 32:15into god wants to talk to you about the
891. 32:18unseen
892. 32:18the bible said your eyes have not seen
893. 32:22your ears have not heard neither have
894. 32:24they entertained the heart of man
895. 32:26the things that god has in store for
896. 32:28them that love him
897. 32:29if you're gonna climb out of this ditch
898. 32:32you're gonna climb out
899. 32:33in the unseen some of y'all are trying
900. 32:36to climb out
901. 32:37and what you see you'll never get out of
902. 32:39it talking about what you see
903. 32:41you got to climb out of that ditch and
904. 32:43what you don't see
905. 32:44i know you got blessings i haven't seen
906. 32:46yet i know you got doors that are about
907. 32:48to open in my life
908. 32:49i know you got blessings i haven't
909. 32:50tapped into you i know you got things
910. 32:52ahead of me that's greater than what's
911. 32:54behind me
912. 32:55i know my tomorrow is better than my day
913. 32:57i know my latter end is greater
914. 33:00than my beginning i know that greater is
915. 33:02the end of a thing than the beginning of
916. 33:03a thing
917. 33:04god wants to talk to you about what's
918. 33:07next
919. 33:09not what was not what used to be
920. 33:12not even what is god wants to talk to
921. 33:15you
922. 33:15about what's next in my text today
923. 33:19god is challenging you to open your
924. 33:22heart and open your mind
925. 33:23and open your spirit beyond how you feel
926. 33:27and beyond what you see and beyond
927. 33:31feeling abandoned and beyond feeling
928. 33:34rejected
929. 33:35and beyond feeling scared and beyond
930. 33:38feeling uncertain
931. 33:39if you're gonna climb out of this ditch
932. 33:42i'm gonna give you a rope
933. 33:44to climb out of this ditch get your
934. 33:47hands on the rope
935. 33:49you never see anybody climbing up a rope
936. 33:54looking down whenever people are
937. 33:56climbing
938. 33:57up a rope they're always looking up
939. 34:00and god said you've been down in the pit
940. 34:02too long
941. 34:03but i'm getting ready to throw you a
942. 34:05rope this sunday and you're climbing out
943. 34:08by this rope and in order to climb up
944. 34:10this rope
945. 34:11you got to start looking up you still
946. 34:14got to start looking at tomorrow
947. 34:16you got to start to understand what your
948. 34:18eyes have not seen
949. 34:20and your ears have not heard you got to
950. 34:23start counting money that hadn't come
951. 34:24yet
952. 34:25you got to start walking in health you
953. 34:27don't feel yet you got to start walking
954. 34:29in wisdom you haven't realized yet
955. 34:32y'all don't hear what i'm saying god
956. 34:37god god
957. 34:41he's faithful he's consistent
958. 34:44he's loyal he's immutable
959. 34:48he's everlasting he's eternal
960. 34:51he's god he's wonderful
961. 34:54he's a counselor he's a mighty god
962. 34:58he's a prince of peace he's an
963. 35:00everlasting father
964. 35:02he's a kinsman he's a redeemer
965. 35:05he's a day star he's a trumpet
966. 35:08he's a shield he's a buckler excuse me
967. 35:12he's the lily of the valley i thought
968. 35:15i'd pick him up
969. 35:16he's a bright and morning star he's my
970. 35:19hope
971. 35:20in the middle of hopelessness he's my
972. 35:23joy
973. 35:24in the military he's my peace
974. 35:27in the middle of confusion god is the
975. 35:30joy
976. 35:31and the strength of my life he moves on
977. 35:34pain
978. 35:35misery and strife the faithfulness of
979. 35:39god the problem in our world
980. 35:43my god i feel it the problem in our
981. 35:46world today
982. 35:47is we have raised a generation of people
983. 35:50who know
984. 35:50church but they don't know god
985. 35:55they know church they know when to raise
986. 35:57their hand
987. 35:58they know when to wear white they know
988. 36:00when to put on skinny jeans
989. 36:02they know when to be slain in the spirit
990. 36:04they know how to fall back
991. 36:05you know church but the test is on
992. 36:10that you might know
993. 36:13god
994. 36:16you'll never have power just knowing
995. 36:19church
996. 36:21you'll never have glory just knowing
997. 36:24church
998. 36:25you'll never have deliverance just
999. 36:28knowing church
1000. 36:29you'll never have a breakthrough just
1001. 36:32knowing
1002. 36:32oh my god i feel holy you'll never have
1003. 36:35a breakthrough
1004. 36:36just knowing church but i dare you
1005. 36:39this morning to get down on your knees
1006. 36:43like your grandmother did and start
1007. 36:46calling on the name of jesus
1008. 36:48oh that i may know you in the
1009. 36:51fellowship of your submarine and the
1010. 36:54power
1011. 36:54of your all that happened
1012. 37:00i'm talking to you
1013. 37:03about the loyalty of god
1014. 37:10because he foreknew you
1015. 37:15nothing that you have gone through
1016. 37:19has shocked him wait a minute
1017. 37:23he foreign nothing
1018. 37:27that you have gone through has shocked
1019. 37:30him
1020. 37:33nothing that you've discovered about
1021. 37:36yourself
1022. 37:37has shocked him nothing
1023. 37:41that you hold secret about yourself
1024. 37:44has shocked him the text says
1025. 37:49he foreknew you
1026. 37:52god does not forget those
1027. 37:56he foreknew
1028. 37:59the bible says in the last days many
1029. 38:01shall come and say
1030. 38:03i did great works in your name
1031. 38:06i heal the sick in the name i raised the
1032. 38:09dead in your name
1033. 38:10and he said depart from me ye workers of
1034. 38:12iniquity
1035. 38:14not you didn't know me he says
1036. 38:18i never
1037. 38:21knew you
1038. 38:26i'm happy this morning
1039. 38:29[Music]
1040. 38:30because he knows me
1041. 38:36i am known of god my wife is learning me
1042. 38:42my god knows me my children are learning
1043. 38:45me
1044. 38:47my god knows me i'm learning me
1045. 38:51my god knows me i am known
1046. 38:55of god when the pandemic first hit
1047. 39:00my wife and i were talking and i said
1048. 39:03you want to get some take out
1049. 39:05and she said no i don't want no takeout
1050. 39:10i said why not i said people are the
1051. 39:12restaurants are all switching to take
1052. 39:13out you can
1053. 39:14get a app and you can just get some
1054. 39:16take-up she said no
1055. 39:18if i cook it i know what's in it
1056. 39:25and she said right now because of the
1057. 39:27times we're living in
1058. 39:29i need to be sure
1059. 39:32what's in what i'm putting in my mouth
1060. 39:37god knows you like my wife knows what's
1061. 39:41in her recipe
1062. 39:46because he was there when you were
1063. 39:47stirred up
1064. 39:50and as time and heat and life
1065. 39:54and processing and refrigeration brings
1066. 39:57things out of you that you didn't know
1067. 40:00were in you
1068. 40:01god already knew
1069. 40:04they were in you in another place paul
1070. 40:07says those he did for know
1071. 40:09he did predestine and those he
1072. 40:12predestined
1073. 40:13he called and those he called
1074. 40:18he justified those he justified
1075. 40:23glorified
1076. 40:24[Music]
1077. 40:28lift your hands right where you are
1078. 40:31forget about what you got on and who's
1079. 40:33around you
1080. 40:34[Music]
1081. 40:36and when you raise your hands there's an
1082. 40:38openness
1083. 40:39and a vulnerability when you raise your
1084. 40:41hands and lift them
1085. 40:43and know that everything from the crown
1086. 40:45of your head to the soles of your feet
1087. 40:48god's already searched
1088. 40:52he's already known you
1089. 40:56there's not anything in you not a pinch
1090. 40:59not a dab
1091. 41:00of anything that he doesn't know
1092. 41:04the bible says all things are open
1093. 41:06before him with whom we have to do
1094. 41:12so when god says i will not forsake you
1095. 41:16[Music]
1096. 41:18you don't have to worry about him
1097. 41:19discovering something to say oh i didn't
1098. 41:21know that was there
1099. 41:23i didn't mean that part right there
1100. 41:29he knows you
1101. 41:30[Music]
1102. 41:32he's with you
1103. 41:37one of my favorite hymns is greatest our
1104. 41:39faithfulness
1105. 41:41and the reason i love the hymn
1106. 41:44i cannot say over the 43 years of my
1107. 41:47ministry
1108. 41:47that i've always been faithful to god
1109. 41:50[Music]
1110. 41:53but i promise you
1111. 41:56[Music]
1112. 41:59he's been faithful to me whether you're
1113. 42:02watching me
1114. 42:03in a prison sale or a hospital room
1115. 42:07whether you're in a penthouse suite
1116. 42:10or a jail block
1117. 42:13[Music]
1118. 42:15god's been faithful
1119. 42:18whether you hire people
1120. 42:21or you're unemployed
1121. 42:26whether you're running the company or
1122. 42:28lost the company
1123. 42:32god's been faithful now everybody will
1124. 42:35be with you when you're up
1125. 42:37[Music]
1126. 42:41but god will be loyal to you
1127. 42:44in a down season and it's just a season
1128. 42:50you hear that it's just a season
1129. 42:54he'll be loyal to you all the way
1130. 43:00this sunday morning god asked me to
1131. 43:03remind you
1132. 43:04[Music]
1133. 43:07that he's loyal
1134. 43:11that you might be delayed but you're not
1135. 43:13denied
1136. 43:17that god has not forgotten all those
1137. 43:19that are truly his
1138. 43:21[Music]
1139. 43:22and if you are his this morning
1140. 43:26as the old folks say he may not come
1141. 43:27when you want him
1142. 43:29[Music]
1143. 43:32but he's right on time
1144. 43:37what do you say
1145. 43:41to the loyalty of god
1146. 43:44if you're grateful for it this morning
1147. 43:46if you realize it this morning
1148. 43:48if you taste it this morning if you
1149. 43:50sense it this morning
1150. 43:56turn that kitchen into a church
1151. 43:58[Music]
1152. 44:00turn that bedroom into a storefront
1153. 44:04and open your mouth and give god praise
1154. 44:09and give him glory
1155. 44:12and bless his name
1156. 44:20greatest high faithfulness
1157. 44:22[Music]
1158. 44:32greatest our faithfulness
1159. 44:38people will come and people will go
1160. 44:41[Music]
1161. 44:45seasons will come and they will go
1162. 44:50but if you want to be left standing when
1163. 44:52all this craziness is over
1164. 44:55give him the glory right where you are
1165. 44:56tap into his loyalty
1166. 44:58and start bragging about how faithful he
1167. 45:02is
1168. 45:04when people ask you how y'all tell them
1169. 45:06god's faithful
1170. 45:07[Music]
1171. 45:11he'll meet you right where you are
1172. 45:19i want you to play that for me one more
1173. 45:20time and i want you to think about
1174. 45:23how loyal god has been
1175. 45:32[Music]
1176. 46:12so
1177. 46:16[Music]
1178. 46:28[Music]
1179. 46:39dr marcus dawson all i have needed
1180. 46:45the hands have provided
1181. 46:47[Music]
1182. 46:49i want to pray for needs this morning
1183. 46:51[Music]
1184. 46:54we talked about the loyalty of god
1185. 46:58we've talked about those moments when
1186. 46:59you feel abandoned
1187. 47:01we've talked about those moments when
1188. 47:03the systems of this world around you
1189. 47:05begin to cave and quake and shake and
1190. 47:08break
1191. 47:10and you wonder where is god
1192. 47:12[Music]
1193. 47:16i want to pray for the needs
1194. 47:20the drive and elijah to a journal
1195. 47:22juniper tree
1196. 47:26i want to talk i want to pray for the
1197. 47:28people who
1198. 47:29are so powerful over here
1199. 47:33called down fire from heaven over here
1200. 47:35and so
1201. 47:36weak over there
1202. 47:42and everybody calls on you because you
1203. 47:43caught fire down from heaven
1204. 47:46but when you're up under the juniper
1205. 47:48tree nobody's there and you're there all
1206. 47:49by yourself
1207. 47:54i want to pray for people who feel
1208. 47:56[Music]
1209. 48:04abandoned
1210. 48:06father right now
1211. 48:10[Music]
1212. 48:11these are your children
1213. 48:18their needs are your needs their pains
1214. 48:20or your pains their
1215. 48:21burdens are your burdens they come to
1216. 48:24you
1217. 48:26with their hands raised and their hearts
1218. 48:28open
1219. 48:32just as surely as you fed elijah
1220. 48:35feed them this morning
1221. 48:40if you have to bring it through a raven
1222. 48:42feed them this morning
1223. 48:43[Music]
1224. 48:45and strengthen your people great god
1225. 48:48that you are
1226. 48:49let your power and your glory saturate
1227. 48:51your people today in the supernatural
1228. 48:53name of jesus
1229. 48:56i thank you in advance for what you're
1230. 48:58about to do
1231. 49:00in the hearts and the lives of your
1232. 49:02people who have come to a breaking point
1233. 49:05and a falling point and a stumbling
1234. 49:07point
1235. 49:07and a weeping point and a wrestling
1236. 49:09point and they need you they need
1237. 49:12they need you they need you they need
1238. 49:15you
1239. 49:17they need you they need you
1240. 49:21they need you some can't get over the
1241. 49:25grief
1242. 49:26some can't get over the pain
1243. 49:30some can't get over it they're trying
1244. 49:31they can't get over it
1245. 49:35oh god oh god
1246. 49:40let strength rise up like an artesian
1247. 49:44will let peace spring up
1248. 49:48out of their belly let living waters
1249. 49:52saturate their soul let new realms of
1250. 49:56peace come into their spirit
1251. 50:00i pray in jesus name that they would
1252. 50:03never
1253. 50:04be the same again
1254. 50:07press down press
1255. 50:10down shake it together
1256. 50:15as i close this prayer i just want to
1257. 50:19thank you
1258. 50:21for being the god of the shipwreck
1259. 50:24to being the god of the broken heart for
1260. 50:27being married to the backslider
1261. 50:30i just want to thank you for riding on
1262. 50:33the boat when the boat is filled with
1263. 50:35water
1264. 50:37ow let me thank you jesus for being god
1265. 50:40in a hospital room
1266. 50:42god in a nursing home god in a crisis
1267. 50:46center
1268. 50:47god in a halfway house god in the time
1269. 50:50of my affliction
1270. 50:53guarding a god in recovery rooms
1271. 50:59i want to thank you lord for your
1272. 51:02loyalty
1273. 51:04you never left me you never forsook me
1274. 51:08and i believe you for it today
1275. 51:11now lord as we come to the close of this
1276. 51:14service
1277. 51:15[Music]
1278. 51:16let your anointing abide with us let
1279. 51:19your peace and power saturate us
1280. 51:23let us go through the rest of our day
1281. 51:26whispering to you
1282. 51:29driving down the road talking to you
1283. 51:33while we're doing our laundry
1284. 51:37let us keep talking to you because
1285. 51:40everywhere we go
1286. 51:42and everywhere we be
1287. 51:45you're right there in the midst of us
1288. 51:49for thine is the kingdom
1289. 51:52and the power and the glory
1290. 51:58well without it
1291. 52:02in the name of jesus in the name of
1292. 52:06jesus we pray
1293. 52:08amen amen
1294. 52:13and amen put your hands together give
1295. 52:16the lord a praise
1296. 52:18thank him for today thank you for today
1297. 52:22thank him for today thank him for his
1298. 52:25loyalty
1299. 52:26thank him for his patience thank you for
1300. 52:29his mercy
1301. 52:30thank him for his kindness we love you
1302. 52:35we're praying for you may god be with
1303. 52:38you
1304. 52:39till we meet again in jesus name
1305. 52:44take care
1306. 52:46[Music]
1307. 53:00you