got as much response from a message as I
did from last week people say they
touched them and moved them and
ministered to them and challenge them to
be more just they didn’t realize that it
is an abomination to have two different
skills one in which you weigh me and
another in which you weigh yourself I
use me figuratively but but one in which
you weigh the people around you and
another that you you see you and and I’m
telling you I’ve been thinking about
values because that’s what we were
talking about values what do you value
and how do you evaluate evaluate
circumstances and situations how you
evaluate a circumstances situation has
something to do with your values has
something to do with your skills and I
want to continue down that path
this Sunday it said okay so that that
was just my attempt to give you to the
view that weren’t there or didn’t hear
the message or just longer on the
broadcast
a context in which you can think with me
as we grapple with the complexities of
this subject this week I’m going to
weigh it out part two okay and and and I
want to talk about this notion I want
you to think about this that value is
determined by sacrifice value is
determined
by sacrifice where there is no sacrifice
there is no value if you have something
for sale and I will give you nothing for
it it has no value because the value is
dependent upon how what somebody will
give up to get it ok it’s not always
dependent upon what you think about it
the over inflation of the ideology that
says self-esteem determines everything
it is not true because sometimes people
let me see there was a friend of mine
back in West Virginia used to say I wish
I could buy you for what you’re worth
and sell you for what you think you’re
worth I could live the rest of my life
off the difference it’s it’s a slash
some people think they bring so much to
the table but they’re the only ones that
think so and an overinflated ego is just
as bad it’s low self esteem so if we
think that value is determined by
sacrifice if we’re going to try that
thought in text let’s try it with first
Peter 1:18 and that’s gonna be the
substratum who we’re going to what are
you watching online or you’re here in
the service I want you to go to first
Peter 1:18 and this is the premise with
which we will start our discussion today
that value is determined by sacrifice
okay first Peter 1:18 says for as much
as you know that he were not redeemed
with corruptible things okay when when
God got ready to ascribe value to what
he would be willing to give up for you
he didn’t reach in the earth and get
silver or gold for as much as you know
that he were not redeemed redeemed
redeemed let me use that were redeemed
theologically we hear the word I’ve been
reading I’ve been redeemed our Liberty
I’ve been washed in the blood of the
Lamb and it and it takes on a
theological connotation but originally
the word redeemed didn’t have anything
to do with theology it had to do with
purchase like you take something and
hock a watch and to redeem it is to get
it out of hock
I redeemed it and what what Jesus did
for us is that Satan put us in hock he
pawned us into a state of sin and Jesus
went down to the pawn shop
[Applause]
this is a ebonic methodology of
explained in a theological discussion
Jesus went down to the pawn shop and
read dinged us so we we were held in
palm in sin and there was a price of
value placed on us it wasn’t gold or
silver not corruptible things from your
vain conversation conveying
conversations is a King James Version of
talking about empty lifestyle vain
meaning empty conversations poorly
translated really leads to lifestyle he
redeemed you from your empty life and
received by tradition he was able to
deliver you and set you free from your
father’s from your bondage from your
history and he did it with the blood of
when he’ll said I got ontario’s I’m
holding him hostage how much would you
give for it God sent Jesus and died on
the cross and said that’s how much I’ll
pay so how can you be saved and question
when when God gave His only begotten Son
as an expression of how far out he would
go to get you back so you’re not
important because you can sing I’m not
important because I can preach he didn’t
you’re not important because you got a
degree
he didn’t redeem you because they’re
smart he redeemed you because you are
look at how much he paid for your I
remember telling him you’re not getting
no good deal I told him everybody called
me the mystery I said oh you should’ve
done that I said he might getting a good
deal you should get one of those good
people because cuz I didn’t feel worthy
but it wasn’t about how I evaluated
myself it was how much the market would
bear how much he would pay to get me out
of hock why would he pay that much and
leave you living in the pawn shop with
your vain lifestyle he didn’t redeem you
so you could go to church on Sunday and
live in hell from Monday through
Saturday and be oppressed and be
discouraged and be depressed and be
heavy laden with bondages that you can’t
break over your life and anger and
insecurity that then that was wasted
money he redeemed you with the blood
value is determined by sacrifice spirit
of the Living God falls fresh on us
today as we delve into your word
let it be illuminated in such a way that
people receive light inner light
enlightened them as we share your word
today in Jesus name Amen
you may be seated so what determines
value what determines value I want I
want to give you some of those some
secular metaphors to bring out spiritual
truth in business there is a concept
called intrinsic value
and if if a company was evaluated it is
evaluated on the basis of its intrinsic
value my company is largely an
entertainment production agency and we
produce television and movies and things
like that and so if you got ready to do
an evaluation of my company and
intrinsic evaluations is how much are
the assets the building the staff the
amount of money the profits how much how
much are the assets but an intrinsic
value goes beyond tangible assets down
to the strength of the brand the
strength of the brand means for
McDonald’s if you evaluate at McDonald’s
by its assets alone you wouldn’t have
the full value you would have to include
how well-known the brand is what people
think about the brand what what the
perception of the golden arches does
when I Drive home I Drive down the road
sometimes that is full of restaurants
that are mom-and-pop restaurants they
are not a part of a brand and and they
have to struggle for customers and then
you’ll get to the corner and there will
be a Wendy’s or a Burger King selling
the same hamburger sometimes not it’s
good but because they kept the name
Wendy’s or McDonald’s on it they are
lined up there and at the other
restaurant there’s two or three little
cars so this intrinsic value is the
power of that name of that brand of that
perception how people feel about it
intrinsic value
are you following what I’m saying let me
go a little bit deeper I have a wedding
ring on and if I took it down to have it
appraised they would ascribe a value to
my ring based on what the market would
bear that doesn’t touch what it means to
me
I hardly ever take my wedding ring off
showers swimming in to make getting
reason being I lost it
about two times have you ever had to
tell your wife that you couldn’t find
your wedding ring you know how in those
horror movies where the white parts of
your eyes go black the white part of her
eyes went but she says what I said I’m
looking for it I started sweating like I
was preaching I said I’m looking for it
I’m looking everywhere I can’t find it
she was over there moving chairs and
friend she said yeah you’re gonna find
this ring she was sleeping like the
woman in the Bible who couldn’t find the
10th coy she was sweeping all over the
place
I was scared like I was seven I was she
had staff and everybody looking for the
ring I look down on my hands and knees
like I was gonna get a whuppin trying to
find the ring
bless my soul if I didn’t get it back
and pull it around and couldn’t find it
again
and I didn’t even want to tell her how
come you’re heavier ring on a you know
what had happened was it I said I mean I
talked for a living I started to dig
bigger when I got that ring back I’ll
take it off me but I just walk around
with it on my head whether I gained
weight or lost weight sometimes
sometimes the flesh around my wings
swells up like bread dough
I still don’t take it off if I lose
weight and it’s and it’s about to fall
off my hand I hold it all with my thumb
yeah yeah because I just don’t want to
do it’s not just the value of the ring
it is the intrinsic value of what it
means to us that I could never get back
if I sold it I couldn’t sell it for what
it means to me okay because that’s an
intrinsic value that the market will not
bear never will forget when I bought my
house I bought my house in and and and
my house is built in a neighborhood that
they pulled unquote over built for the
neighborhood and what that means it’s
when you build a bigger house then the
houses surrounding it that means that
when you get ready to sell the house
you can’t get how much you it costs to
build it because the appraisal isn’t
based on the materials that are in the
house it is also assessed by the
environment in which it was in so I told
the owner of the house I went to see the
house about three times and then I got
on the owners nerve because I kept
looking at the house of wouldn’t make
offer so I told the realtor for me not
to come back if I wasn’t gonna make
offer he’s been here three times and he
hadn’t made an offer and so the realtor
told me what he said I said to the ribs
I said you tell him that I said that I
don’t want to make him an offer because
I see how much they love the house
and I see how much care they put into
them yes how much money they put into it
and the quality of the beatle round and
the quality of the infrastructure and
the quality of the finish al and I know
how much they love the unique nuances
that they put in the house but since I’m
going to have to go to the bank I can
only offer you the appraised value and I
didn’t want to hurt your feelings so she
went back and told him what I see it
and and he said he sent backward to me
said make an offer and I said I got it
of not getting back what he had put in
it lowering his expectations to
understand this this this offer I’m
getting ready to make you is going to be
disappointed if the issue is just how
disappointing isn’t going to be and from
there I got a wonderful deal on my house
you understand what I’m saying I want
you to understand let’s see he was
telling me the replacement cost okay I
was telling him I am NOT an insurance
company I’m a buyer and I am not willing
to sacrifice enough money to replace it
is a different figure from the appraised
value because the appraised value is
based on the neighborhood and the market
and the economy and a lot of other
peripheral things have to do with value
in it funny the same house that could be
sold for two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in in 2015 might could have only
been sold for a hundred and seventy five
thousand in 2010 same house same
location same neighborhood but because
of the market the value of the house is
determined by how much people are
willing to sacrifice to get it and how
much people are willing to sacrifice
depends on the times and the environment
like when people get scared they’re not
willing to sacrifice as much they said
that when we president elect Trump got
the nomination a won the presidency that
the stock markets dropped immediately
for while people got scared when people
get scared they grow back because value
is not determined by the owner is
determined by the buyer
and if the buyer is afraid the price
drops you see are you found well if I’m
going somewhere just stay with me you
see you gotta understand that the value
of the dollar I went to London a few
years ago and the dollar against the
pound at the time I was in London was
worth about 50 cents so if something
said it was 200 pounds I had to pay $400
to get it if I go over there now with
the same dollar and it says 200 pounds I
can spend $100 and buy it same dollars
different perception and the value
fluctuates on the same item based on the
sacrifice how much the buyer will pay to
get it and God said when Satan held you
up on the slave table and said how much
will you give my value isn’t determined
by my personal worth my value is
determined by how much he would
sacrifice are you giving it how much he
would sacrifice so the Bible says you
were not born with silver and gold but
with the precious blood of Jesus put it
up
yeah that women when you begin to look
at the two different things this is what
the market would bear God said I won’t
just give silver and gold I will give my
son for you so I’m not valuable
I know I’m valuable because value is
determined by sacrifice I did some
horrible things I did some things I’ve
testified about I did some things I
don’t tell how many of you have never
am i starving grinning they look guilty
they would give their Bibles in court we
wouldn’t get arrested yeah nobody tells
everything except the crazy people
because because the truth of the matter
is if I told you everything you would be
shocked that he would give anything for
come on somebody so the reason I have to
worship him and give him the praise is
that I realized that he paid more for me
than what I deserve if you’ve got that
yeah yeah yeah say hey what somebody say
he got disorder another deal I got more
by giving him then he got by getting me
I got more by giving him then he got by
kidding me I got more by giving him than
he got by giving me he’s he’s more God
than I am man come on somebody I got the
blessing when I got the Lord fire you
he’s determined by sacrifice value is
determined by sacrifice
I want to put this in here John 3:16 God
so loved the world value is determined
by sacrifice God so valued the world
intrinsically his attitude about it like
the wedding ring like the homeowner it
was his love that made it valuable
he saw the infinite God God so to the
infinite degree love the infinite
emotion the world the infinite deficit
that he gained the infinite sacrifice so
that whosoever believe Allah no hear
what I’m saying
God so loved the war he said that’s
important to me I’ll pay more than
anybody else would pay because I feel
more than anybody else feel you don’t
have to like me God likes me God so long
[Applause]
the world that He gave His only begotten
Son value is determined by sacrifice so
when I see the cross when I see the
magnanimous sacrifice of the cross when
I see that they hung him high and
stretched him wide and nailed him to a
tree and then he hung there from the six
to the ninth hour and that he died into
the ground got nervous and begin to
tremble and died until the Sun refused
to shine and died in two brains open up
all over Jerusalem when I see how he
died so willingly
that they didn’t have to break his legs
then he became obedient unto death and
gave up a gaze of the goat when I see
that no man took his life but he laid it
down when I see that he despised the
cross but for the joy that was set
before it of having me he said go ahead
prime the nerves in my head value
is determined by sacrifice value is
determined by sacrifice let me let me
explain something I won’t teach this if
I say to you let me see give me somebody
I will get somebody over yeah I’m
looking for a suspect I will give a
suspect glowing a girl I’ll take you
come on yeah come on if I say to you I’m
I’m not sure I get 200 bucks it’s gonna
be a bear
we vine like this is $200 it’s not but I
say I will give you $200 a day I’m
running short today this is okay you
love me I say I’m gonna give you $200 a
day to work for me let me tell you what
I just see it on the base of your resume
or skills or talent I will buy a day of
your life for $200 that’s what he just
sold me a day of his life his skills his
talents is no longer his own because he
took the money I bought a day that he
will never have again I’m out a day that
he could never create again
I’m bout a day that it doesn’t matter
how you feel what you were gonna do what
you had in mind whether you woke up in a
bad mood the fact that you took that
money means our own bad day your hiney
and belongs to me for that day because
he took the money now if he is selling
something selling that phone for $200
you just give him the money
you just sacrifice a day of your life
for the phone
[Applause]
come on somebody the value of the phone
is determined by sacrifice you worked
you sweat it you gave up your time your
labor to get the $200 now you gave him
the sacrifice of the day you said I’ll
pay a day for a phone that’s why you
ought to be careful what you buy because
you are trading your life from
merchandise let me go deeper you are
giving up the intangible for the
tangible you just gave up a day in your
life for something that’s only going to
be valuable for a short period of time
and they’re gonna upgrade and you don’t
have to give up another day of your life
to give the next one be sure you want it
bad enough because you just sold
yourself for the flower okay you give me
this phone man you give him the money
the illustration is now over
everybody got what they had to start
with you understand this is just an
illustration I’ve just teach it without
door business when you think about it
that way it changes how you spend money
because when you spend money you are
spending life that’s why some people pay
you by the hour when they say $60 an
hour they are trading an hour you will
that’s why if you take the money and
don’t provide the service you robbed me
you have robbed me wearing have we
robbed be unconscious robbery to take
the blessing and not not give the
can I go deeper I’m gonna read you a
Bible story our first Kings chapter 3
verse 16 through 28 and and and Solomon
is gonna do a better job of explaining
this then I will so I’m gonna tell you
about it this season my wife is gonna
read it to you and and so Solomon is the
new king over Israel and and he is
servicing he is functioning most of the
king and as a judge leaders have to make
tough decisions okay and and and Solomon
comes to reign after the order of a
David who was an impressive King and
Solomon’s gifts are different whenever
there is a transition of power people
tend to be attached to the gift set of
the predecessor see it went when Joshua
took over after Moses that was a tough
job because Joshua wasn’t good at what
Moses did Moses as rod was turned him
into serpents and he was doing all of
this Magnus make difference of the
resume and her skills or talent I will
buy a day of your life for $200
that’s what he just sold me a day of his
life his skills his talents is no longer
his own because he took the money I
bought a day that he will never have
again I’m out a day that he could never
create again I’m bout a day that it
doesn’t matter how you feel what you
were gonna do what you had in mind
whether you woke up in a bad mood the
fact that you took that money means our
own bad day
johani and belongs to me for that day
cuz you took the money now if he is
selling something selling that phone for
$200 you just give him the money
take the phone you just sacrifice a day
of your life for the phone
[Applause]
come on Sam ban the value of the phone
is determined by sacrifice you worked
you sweat it
you gave up your time your labor to get
the $200 now you gave him the sacrifice
of the day you said I’ll pay a day for a
phone that’s why you ought to be careful
what you buy because you are trading
your life from merchandise let me go
deeper you are giving up the intangible
for the tangible you just gave up a day
in your life for something that’s only
going to be valuable for a short period
of time and they’re gonna upgrade and
you don’t have to give up another day of
your life to give the next one be sure
you want it bad enough because you just
sold yourself for the flower okay you
give me this phone that you give him the
the illustration is now over
everybody got what they had to start
with you understand this just an illness
right I’ve just teach it without
thought business when you think about it
that way it changes how you spend money
because when you spend money you are
spending life that’s why some people pay
you about the hour when they say $60 an
hour they are trading an hour you will
that’s why if you take the money and
don’t provide the service you robbed me
you have robbed me wearing have we
robbed me unconscious robbery to take
the blessing and not not give the
can I go deeper I’m going to read you a
Bible story our first Kings chapter 3
verse 16 through 28 and and and Solomon
is gonna do a better job of explaining
this then I will so I’m gonna tell you
about it this season my wife is gonna
read it to you and and so Solomon is the
new king over Israel and and and he is
servicing he is functioning most of the
king and as a judge leaders have to make
tough decisions okay and and and Solomon
comes to reign after the order of the
David who was an impressive King and
Solomon’s gifts are different whenever
there is a transition of power people
tend to be attached to the gift set of
the predecessor see when Joshua took
over after Moses that was a tough job
because Joshua wasn’t good at what Moses
did Moses as rod was turning into
serpents and he was doing all of this
Magnus magnificent stuff and Joshua was
a fighter
okay any time you come in behind
somebody else’s greatness people are
addicted to their giftings you’ve got
the same position but not the same
giftings there is an adaptable period
where people have to transition to what
you have to offer because they what
they’re gonna say is when so-and-so was
here
if I died right now and you became the
pastor the first thing they were saying
within a that’s not how this had did it
when you can’t do it the way Bishop did
it because you bring a different
skillset into it one of the things that
Solomon did have that David didn’t have
is that he was wise he was incredibly
wise he was wiser in some ways and David
David was strong he could fight he could
war he was passionate he could lead but
don’t make me elaborate every gift has a
people see the gift
but they don’t see the weakness every
gift has a weakness and so if you are
gifted you carry the gift intention
intention with the weakness
just because I’m good at this doesn’t
mean I’m good at that
just because I can sing that mean I can
manage money just because I’m good at
preaching doesn’t mean I’m good at home
the fact that you see people who are
good at one thing doesn’t mean that
they’re good at everything that’s why
this the online dating thing is it’s
gonna get you in trouble because people
advertise what they’re good at and you
discover what they’re not and with the
absence of a dating period to get to
understand what level of weakness you
are living with you said I do to the
gift but you live with the weakness at
least Damon gave you a hint just a clue
or what you my dear for anyway the
Solomons thing was he was wise wise
above his years he was so wise and when
the Queen of Sheba came to see him and
she saw his order he go your wisdom is
shown in your order she saw the order of
the people under him the structure the
way he would the way he set up his
bureaucracy and the way he had built his
kingdom what you bill is an out flexion
of your internal when you can live in a
messy messy messy messy house and be
comfortable is because the disorder on
the outside is a reflection of the
I’m gonna go deeper I just killed 30,000
people just thinking supposing they died
they just fell out start chewing their
tongue one of the things they do with
people who have mental and emotional
disorders is they put them in an orderly
atmosphere because the rebuilding of
order on the outside helps you to
arrange issues on the inside
chaos anywhere often means chaos
everywhere so when the Queen of Sheba
came to see Solomon his wisdom was not a
and there was no breath left in her
because his life reflected the way he
thought as a man thinketh in his heart
so is he
your life is a reflection of what you
think and what you value who can I take
some time with this my wife and I were
going in this house one time we were
looking at the house as a possibility
too bad and the homeowner was was
showing us through the house and we were
walking all through the house and and
and and when we got through walking
through the house I told my wife I said
her husband doesn’t love her I never met
him I walked through the house and I
knew what he did for a living and I saw
the house I said he doesn’t love her mom
I said what would you say that I said
because a man puts his money where his
heart is
[Applause]
what whatever we like we invest in and
if you have the money and you don’t put
it in where she dwells is that you don’t
ascribe your happiness come home
somebody a man will buy what makes him
happy
if a man loves clothes he’ll buy clothes
if he doesn’t care about clothes he
won’t buy clothes if he loves the
building of Babel I don’t have a boat
cuz I don’t love the boat I get on him
for the times I love the boat I can fall
but my brother has a boat cuz he loves a
boat and so every time I turn around he
tell me I was out on the boat I just
came in from the boat the all you need
to come right on the boat I was on the
boat and I caught a fish because he’s
enjoying it he will sacrifice for what
I knew he didn’t love her cuz he made
enough money to fix it up but he didn’t
fix it up which meant that that was not
a lion will fix up his lair he will lay
the environment for what’s important to
him if you love music you got music I
don’t care if you’re sleeping on a
beanbag you got the music you will have
a sound system you remember how we would
have the raggedy cars but we would have
the expensive sound system and the car
door was about to fall off and you had
to kick it before it open but when you
turned on the music you would have
surround sound value is determined by
sacrifice what do you value determines
what you will sacrifice are you killing
something that’s more important to win
something that’s less important let me
give you an example are you so angry at
your ex-husband
that you won’t let him near your child
because you want to show him how bad he
hurts you winning becomes more important
than the damage you’re doing to the
child because you’re so engrossed to get
me even with him that you don’t care how
you beat up the kid as long as you show
him oh yeah you see you young you don’t
know what pain is
you don’t walk around with tears in your
eyes because I never noticing that you
are killing the channel
what do you value what do you value
determines the decisions you make see
most people when they teach it they act
like the other one I didn’t have any
values she did her value was a women
how dare my brother say I have no values
because I have no boat and it’s just
that I don’t value what he values not if
two people get married and they don’t
value the same things it becomes
difficult to have a relationship with
somebody who doesn’t vote for you value
as tying together for him value is
working if you don’t have the same value
he said I’m a good man you on the phone
talking about girl let me tell you it’s
not that you don’t have the same faith
or the same ethnicity or the same
background or like the same music you
you want to be connected with people who
value what you value because when you do
your idea of happy and my dear happy
becomes the same thing but when your
idea happy is one thing and my dear
happy is the same thing and we’re trying
to make each other happy though we’re
really trying to make each other happy
we have a tendency to give each other
what we value rather than what they
value see some people like it when you
shout I like it when you get quiet
because when you get real quiet I know
you’re thinking about stuff you didn’t
have the same values you value going to
church he values getting high you used
to value getting high now you value
going to church he’s mad at you going to
church because I’m talking to anybody
because when he got with you you had the
same value so he misses who you used to
be somebody got their head was that for
you give God a praise whoever that was
for I just opened up something in your
head it’s not that he doesn’t like you
he doesn’t like your values it’s not
that he doesn’t like Church Church has
become the other man and he feels like
you’re cheating on him and the only way
to maintain the relationship is to give
him enough of what he values time with
him that he doesn’t feel robbed by your
faith but when you come home talking
about one another man said
[Applause]
you come in a little time let me tell
you what Bishop priest today instead of
coming in that we don’t talk about I
went to church but I’ll miss you I was
thinking about you I had a good time but
I’m glad to be back where you are and
then you might mention something he
wants to know
am I still important to you Solomon
looks at what the two women value and
determines who the mother is
keep-away I didn’t forget where I was
there’s another sentence tile in there
Solomon said don’t kill the baby then he
pointed to the first woman she is his
real mother give the baby to her he gave
the baby to the woman who was going to
give the baby away because he knew that
she valued the baby so much that she
would rather ate the rest of her life
than to hurt the baby
see when you really love you really
sacrifice I rather be hurt myself didn’t
hurt you
I’d rather cry myself than to watch
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good god of mine and you walking around
with your save self talk about I don’t
feel loved how can you say that love
says if one of us got to hurt I’d rather
it be me than you this is what I decided
when my mother was that I told God I
would rather bear the pain of losing her
then enjoy the pleasure of having her
and watch her reared in pain sometimes
love requires loosen
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if the choice is keep her here in pain
so I can say I have her or let her rest
in peace and let me bear the pain of
losing her I would rather be in pain
without her than to have her in pain
just so I can go visit her love is
self-sacrificing what is real before I
would hurt you I’d rather be unhappy and
see you don’t hear that today because
today everything is about what makes you
happy
but when you really love something you
would rather be unhappy than to hurt
what you love there is a difference
between lust and love she’s not in love
with you she’s in lust with you love
that’s why in Corinthians Paul says love
seeketh not her own is not puffed up
love says hurt me not the baby Solomon
says that’s a real mother I’ve never
seen real love
real law will break the race it’ll break
through culture it’ll break through
circumstances real love a break through
hard times adversity and trouble because
real love is never selfish it may feel
selfish it may want to be selfish but
when real love looks at how that is
hurting you real law says that’s okay
let her have the baby I’d rather go home
excrete my milk for a baby I don’t have
and know that my baby is alive there for
you to cut my baby in two and Solomon
says this is the real mother and the
Texas goes on to say all of Israel was
amazed at his wisdom because he knew
that value is determined by sacrifice
anybody getting anything out of this I’m
gonna go I’m gonna go go go too good in
your Bible to Romans 12 awhile I’m
almost finished call Rita car somebody
go get a breakthrough today
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glory to God roaming 12:01 then you have
it’s a man okay I’m gonna quote it out
of my head I might miss something oh he
got it up there
I beseech you therefore brethren foot
wait I’m gonna take it slow
IBC I beseech the word beseech leads to
beg it means I plead I crawl I cry I
will I beg you therefore brethren so the
fact that Paul calls it brethren we know
that they are disciples because that
determines Brotherhood by the mercies of
God by the very mercies of God by
everything the hinge of my salvation
hinges on the mercies of God I beg you
buy everything that connected me to God
that’s a lot to bring you back that you
present your if you got a Bible most
y’all looking at the phone but if you
got a Bible underline ye present your
bodies because this ye present your
bodies is an interesting concept if you
understand the Bible because normally
the priests presents a sacrifice the
priest presents a lamb a boat above a
peace offering a drink offering the
priest now is presenting himself
I beg you brethren by the mercies of God
that you present your your yourselves
wait your your this this is this is this
is if my wife were talking about it this
is your ring this is your watch this is
your jacket this is this is yourself I
want you to present your your ownership
yourself in the open in the old church
gained and grew up in the little old
storefront Church and the old mothers
would tell us in church if you did
something and you did it in a fleshly
carnal way they would say you were in
self and when they said you were in self
it meant that you were being carnal or
you were selfish and that you weren’t
spiritual they were saying you were in
yourself he says I want you to print and
present yourself your feelings your
temper your mood your attitude your body
yourselves your body a living sacrifice
now watch this living sacrifice that is
weird because most sacrifices you would
think I would be dead but he said I want
you to present yourselves a living
sacrifice I want you to live on
sacrifice I want you to live on such I
want you to live giving I want you to
live give it I want you to live
unselfishly I want you to live giving I
want you to live putting yourself in the
uncomfortable place I want you to live
on sacrifice you’ll get my shot was that
if I was saying I want you to live on
success you would not need out but in
the kingdom success is based on
sacrifice you can’t have success without
sacrifice what I am Telling You is to
live on sacrifice but I’m telling you
how much what I’m telling you to live on
success but when I say little sacrifice
I’m telling you what success scoffs you
can’t have success without sacrifice you
can’t have the baby mama without
sacrifice Lucy was the real mama because
she paid the price
without sacrifice you want a good
marriage but you want to do your own
thing you want a great business but you
want free time you want to be knowledge
and recognize but you don’t want to be
committed you want a title but you don’t
want to do the work you want to be
honored but you don’t want to be
sacrificial he said I’m glad you don’t
take the phone if you’re not gonna give
me the money
don’t take the cheque if you’re not
gonna do the job don’t sign up for the
blessings if you’re not gonna have the
discipline if you really want to be
successful sacrifice God is successful
because he I’m paid to be where I am I
gave up to be where you can’t take the
position you can’t be a mama and do your
own thing you can’t really and never
sacrifice because you have to love it
whatever you love more than you love
yourself you will succeed at if you
gotta have rest you will be a successful
sleeper if you gotta have friends you
will be successful in having trees
whatever you value you sacrifice for I
tell my wife of them don’t side their
friendship because friendships are
expensive and I know you you’re not
gonna want to be answering the phone and
dealing with all the very issues to
don’t start there I already know you
don’t value that enough to sacrifice for
it
you are only successful in the areas of
your sacrifice I beg you brethren by the
mercies of God that you pay the costs to
be where you are present your body a
living sacrifice put it up holy holy
holy pure completely sacrifices holy
holy not carnal holy what are you
willing to give up your attitude for
your proclivities for what are you
willing to put on pause to get to the
next level you can’t get to the next
level because you dance last Sunday
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hold it P or consecrate it holy
acceptable under God because God don’t
see that brother wanted your phone he
offered you some money but you didn’t
have to accept it you could have not
deemed the money valuable enough for the
value of yourself just because you offer
it to God that meanies go take it I’m
almost where I want to be holy and
acceptable unto God I love to teach the
word
I flew back home to teach this message I
got in yesterday at two o’clock in the
morning and got into bed at 4:00 a.m.
because I love what I do and anything
you don’t hear what I’m saying it would
have been much more convenient to stay
in California but for the joy that was
set before me a sacrifice to be where I
am you see the success but God I never
have to worry about my haters because my
haters are hating on me for my success
but they’re not willing to make my
sacrifice and if you don’t suffer with
me I feel the Holy Ghost tickity
somebody give him five minutes of crazy
let me say let me say something about to
break in here I don’t know who I’m
preaching to but God is getting you
ready for what’s about to happen next in
your life let me say some went out to
the show I knew it was gonna be
sacrificed where I didn’t know how much
I knew it would take some time I just
didn’t know how much but I know that you
only succeed to the level of your
sacrifice stop letting people advertise
success without you understanding
sacrifice because value is determined by
sacrifice I heard the brother making
rounds on the organ up there do it again
do what you do that’s so wrong
I saw one daughter here
but I can’t play as well as him I don’t
know why you listen I play better than
you the reason we have your level of
success
my level of success due to game and his
level of success they find us sit there
in rehearsal all of us I could play like
he plays but I can’t get that kind of
[Applause]
love you hear the success but God
so let me wrap this up don’t does again
dick if I feel something happening in
here somes about to break loose in here
you’ve been praying for success in an
area and God needed for you to hear this
message cuz he wanted you to know that
value is determined by sacrifice you’re
attracted to the success but you’re
repelled by the sacrifice you can’t have
success until you’re willing to have the
sacrifice by the masses of God that you
present your body a living sacrifice let
me show you what I’m saying I grew up
reading my Bible I didn’t read it
because I was holy I really because I
was hurting I read it because I was
confused I read it because my father was
dying I read it because my family was in
trouble I read it because their marriage
was in trouble I read it because I was
an illicit and trying to figure out
something hold on to to stabilize my
life while other people were playing
basketball I was reading my Bible I
still get embarrassed today because I
don’t understand sports like I
understand scriptures the reason I don’t
understand sports is because I didn’t
[Applause]
whatever you give yourself to it will
give itself back to you Kratz down
I am only as good a musician as I was a
sacrifice the reason I can quote Sacha’s
Ana the Bible it’s not because of some
divine Holy Ghost impartation but what
you are hearing is be being successful
in the areas of my sacrifice now you’re
trying to do in one year what it took me
40 years to give value is determined my
sacrifice I must say this nominal close
he says and I said VCC therefore
brethren by the mercies of God the to
visit your body a living sacrifice holy
and acceptable to God this is what I
wanted you which is your reasonable he’s
reasonable he says this makes sense what
wisdom makes sense Solomon made sense
come on here with me an appraisal makes
sense reasonable means it makes sense
how does this make sense
he’s asking me to give up on what I want
to do for what God wants to do
and then he says it is reasonable see he
sold the phone to him at a price that he
thought was reasonable
he thought what I am giving is worth
what I am giving so the transaction is
reasonable I had a reason to value what
I value
are you following I’m almost there Paul
says if you’re gonna communicate with
the God who determines success by
sacrifice not by quoting scriptures not
by dancing not by coming to church on
Sunday not by swimming around three
times at Howard Jesus you have to speak
in the language of the God you’re
connected with you saw it about marriage
that you have to value what I value if
you’re gonna walk with me you can’t be
married today on Saunders and not like
football you cannot be married to Tiger
Woods and not like golf you can’t be
married to Magic Johnson and not
understand basketball because you have
to speak to me in the language that I
value if I can be my brother’s brother
and not ride on the boat but I can’t be
my brother’s wife and not ride on the
boat because if I do that it’s gonna
separate us I have to value what he
values he’s saying that your God value
sacrifice and if you are going to
connect with your God it is not just
about what you say with your mouth it is
not just because you came to church on
Sunday you have a God who value
you are praying for success that God is
looking for sacrifice Abraham built an
altar and offered up a sacrifice and God
blessed him when Elijah was being fought
by 450 prophets of Bale
he said I’ll show you who the real God
is he didn’t get on top of Mount Carmel
and start dancing
he’d been good on top of Mount Carmel
and raised his hands at Washington he
got on the top of Mount Carmel and
offered up a sacrifice when he offer out
the sacrifice the fire fell from heaven
and hid the sacrifice nor took his eight
children and got on the ark and lived in
the ark for forty days as soon as the
waters receded before he built a house
he built an altar and offered up a
sacrifice because he said if I’m gonna
build a house I want God to bless me and
God will always bless a sacrifice this
is how much I honor God before I build
my stuff I will build your stuff jesus
she’ll be added unto you because when
God got ready to show you what he loved
he showed you what he loved about what
he sacrificed I told my wife he done
love her because the guy who was in that
house I saw no sacrifice and where there
is no sacrifice no love the mother so
loved the child that she said I’d rather
sacrifice being with him and him be
alive than to win the fight with you and
lose my child you are asking God for
success God is asking you for sacrifice
Paul says this is your reasonable
standing your feet
I am living off of our sacrifice shag
double oh sure I am living off a
massacre off ice
I am only successful in the areas of my
sacrifice I can remember being a 7 year
old boy sitting in a truck with my daddy
a red truck with a black fender and I
was sitting on the passenger side riding
at 7 years old I was writing my sister
has letters I wrote to her when I was 9
and 10 years old I was writing then and
I’m writing now part of the scripts you
see on my show I wrote them the letter
then I quoted to Oprah I wrote on the
side of the bed the books that sold
millions of copies I wrote them
scratched him labor over their sin all
kinds of the more I put me in the book
the better the book sales I am being
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show me your sacrifice and God will
answer with success thank you Lord the
Lord told me he said you forgot
something
you forgot something I told you to tell
him and he just wanted back to me he’s
so good cuz I’d hate to be on the plane
with regret he said remember I told you
to tell them that from the beginning I
follow me he says I’m going to show you
how to succeed the devil is going to
fight me and I’m going to show you how
to win I could have called ten thousand
angels but that’s not how you win I am
the Lion of tribe of Judah but that’s
not how you win I’m strong enough that
when they came to get me the first
soldiers who came to get him got
swallowed up in the earth backed up and
fell dead so I had never lost control
but the way to win I’m gonna show you he
became obedient unto death even the
death of the cross
and he went as a lamb to his Shearer’s
not as a lion of the tribe of Judah but
as a lamb he paid the ultimate sacrifice
but here’s my question that he reminded
me I must ask you if Jesus said to take
up your cross and follow me and his
pulse was so heavy that a brother had to
come help you carry the cross if we are
really his disciples where is your cross
I looked at Saul you come in this
morning I saw your pocketbooks in the
addresses in your handsomeness oops
idiot ass push the cross because if
Jesus said take up your cross and follow
me and you didn’t come in here with the
the invitation they imitate you’ll see
we do all kind of even taste it
come on to the Lord he will make you
rich come on to the Lord you gonna be
happily married
come on to the Lord and your children
gonna grow up in trees come on to the
Lord and you don’t get Beauty faster
come on to the Lord
and experience the joy that’s not the
kind of the called Jesus made Jesus said
if you’re gonna follow me take up your
cross to be like Jesus to be like Jay oh
how I long to be like him if you want to
be like Jesus race across I don’t see
maybe it wasn’t talking about wood
sometimes your cross is standing a
sometimes your cost is working at a job
for you you’re not even getting the pay
that you do but because you believe in
what you’re going sometimes your cross
is loving somebody who don’t love you
back and you keep giving and giving and
giving and they keep taking and taking
and taking and every time you think
about it you believe whatever makes you
believe it so cross if you had a child
that can’t read or can’t walk or can’t
sit up in the bed and God couldn’t trust
nobody to love that child but you and
every time you love him you love him and
you hurt and you hurt and you love when
you go home and hold him that’s your
that’s across you keep showing me that
you’re a Christian about what works in
your life I’m telling you you’re a
Christian about what doesn’t work your
faith is proven by your sacrifice
because you believe in it and it is
killing you but for a higher purpose you
whatever kills your pride whatever makes
you challenge your deepest fear and it
it is your reasonable service
I preached 10 years of a church that
never broke 100 passionately ministering
in the back woods West Virginia a man
that will speak to nations spent years
being faithful in a storefront you see
I don’t care what they say they make all
kinds of accusations you do it for the
money you do it for the frame you do it
for the power you do it for this you do
it for that you can say whatever you
want to because you’re looking at the
success but God sees me driving a 1967
valiant with the floorboard rusted out
going to preach the gospel and God sees
me thumbing up to Montgomery comes to my
table broke down in the middle of the
world
[Applause]
you see the house I’m living in now and
God sees me preaching when the lights
were altered my house and I had to go to
my mama’s house the water and I was
still preaching the gospel I don’t care
what you say I don’t care what you think
and I don’t care what you write because
value real value is determined by
sacrificing I just want to take a better
than thinking he keeps me badges were
thinking minimally thinking I just need
to take a bit even thinking then he
ordered my sacrifice then our sacrifice
when I was young so I could walk in my
success when I got older and I just want
to thank you in front of everybody that
you did not forget my labor of love
and the true art of the days that I was
nailed to a cross I honor you it was my
[Applause]
I was preaching faith when my phone was
off and I used to go to missing a boy’s
house to get the phone and make a phone
call and I was preaching the gospel I
was preaching the gospel when I only
have one suit and we can send it to the
cleaners or Serena washed it into the
land it come out of it and I come home
treats of the God excuse me I’m sorry
I’m just lost little bit I want to thank
where is your cross where is your cross
where is your faithfulness of your
consistency go ahead take job stuff job
or do it with no house he’ll do it with
no kids he’ll do with everybody talking
about it he’ll do it with balls all over
his body until you have a cross you have
no right to demand the crown how dare
you ask for cloud join hands with
somebody somewhere in their life there
is a cross it’s not made out of wood but
there’s something that they endure for
greater good they see all of their
friends getting stuff that they can’t
have and doing stuff that they can’t do
and the devil’s trying to talk them down
off the cross but God sent this word to
Joseph though he slay me yet your lot
trusted you gave up what you could have
had where you couldn’t live what you
could have drove because you believed in
something bigger than yourself you could
have walked away from them kids but you
stayed there raised uh but what I love
the women were running around looking
for me and he was going home and helping
yo kids homework if you look stupid but
God’s got honor your sacrifice it may
not come with your water but hang on in
that I did it for years when it looked
like it didn’t work I did it for years
and years and years and I apparently
forgot me but God does not forget
sacrifice I don’t know whether he
remembers dance it or not but God does
not forget sacrifice
I’ll say God is not unjust to forget
your labor of love in that you have
sacrificed and you served squeeze that
hand you over he will not come down from
the cross just to save himself you think
you’re a Christian because you’re
watching me on TV and you think you’re a
Christian because you’re streaming on
this broadcast or you think you’re a
Christian because you came to church are
you sing in the choir that’s not what
makes you a Christian you’re a Christian
because you’ve got a cross
you’re a Christian because you’re a
living sacrifice your nail to something
that makes you squirm your nail to
something that you pain and your nail to
something that makes you bleed and you
still praise God and you still serve God
and just
lift ahead and you steal watch of him if
you’re still holding on and you’ve been
faithful though you’ve been hurting and
you’ve been faithful though you’ve been
bleeding yeah you’ve been faithful
though you were scared you face your
fears and did it anyway that’s what
makes you a Christian
they laughed at me they told jokes about
me they called me the boy preacher and
said I’d never be nothing they thought I
was nothing cuz I didn’t have no success
to show all I had was sacrifice but if
you sacrifice long enough if you build
an altar before you build your house if
you seek you first the kingdom of God
and all of this righteousness there will
come a day that God will open up the
windows of heaven and pour you out a
blessing you don’t have room enough to
let us not be weary in well-doing here
for ye shall reap in due season if
you’re faint not squeeze that hand the
hand you’re holding it’s carrying across
you don’t even see the hand you’re
holding is enduring some things that you
don’t know anything about the hand
you’re holding it’s given when it hurts
servant when it’s not convenient or the
hand you’re holding needs to be and
they’re called to me and they’re
convicted because they’ve been too
selfish too long too focused on your
flesh now I beseech you therefore
brethren by the mercies of God that he
presents yourself your body a living
sacrifice why are you doing everything
you big enough to do and one God to
bless you anyway God is waiting on you
to sacrifice I don’t like it and it
gives me pain and I don’t like it it’s
not me I don’t like it again
I gotta be myself shut up go to your
cross it’s reasonable if he went to his
cross it’s reasonable that you would go
to your squeeze that hand and whispered
prayer because it’s not easy to be a living sacrifice