The Blood Speaks
Pastor David T. Elms 3/30/2025
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Summary
Pastor David T. Elms explores how the blood of Jesus speaks a message of hope and redemption that surpasses the cry of Abel, encouraging believers to move beyond selfishness and emotionalism toward a life anchored in the Word of God.
Key points
- •The root of human sin is selfishness, which offers a short-lived bliss but ultimately destroys hope and joy.
- •Faith should be built on the 'Re-bible' (returning to the Word) rather than shifting emotionalism or personal opinions.
- •While Abel's blood initially represented a primal scream of injustice, the New Testament (Hebrews 12:24) reveals that through Christ, the blood speaks better things, transforming a story of fatality into one of faithfulness.
- •Nothing is lost in God's kingdom; the speaker offers a pastoral assurance that even lives cut short by tragedy or loss are held in eternity by a redeeming God.
- •True deliverance comes from replacing the 'slavery of the soul' and fear with a personal connection to Jesus Christ, rather than relying on religion as a checklist.
Scripture
Redemption
The Word of God
Overcoming Fear
Hope in Loss
Life application
This week, identify a 'primal scream' of past pain or injustice in your life and intentionally take it to the Lord in prayer, asking Him to transform that cry into a testimony of His faithfulness.
Reflection questions
- In what areas of your life have you been building on 'emotionalism' rather than the stable foundation of Scripture?
- When God asks you questions like He asked Cain (knowing the answer already), do you respond with honesty or do you find yourself playing 'dodgeball' with the truth?
- How does the promise that the blood of Jesus 'speaks better things' specifically change the way you view your past mistakes or the wrongs done to you?
- Is your current worship more like a 'checked box' or an internal 'forensic look' at the heart?
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Full transcript
0:00I'm so thankful that he's
0:00back. My subject today is the blood
0:04speaks. You know, the Bible tells us
0:06that we are not to be ignorant of his
0:08devices. speaking of the
0:11devil. But the tricks of the devil have
0:13always been built on
0:16selfishness. Selfishness is a
0:19short-lived
0:21bliss. And every parent that has any
0:24child, it is your duty to teach that
0:27child that there will never be joy
0:30through
0:31selfishness. Every child has
0:33selfishness.
0:35Doesn't matter if they were a perfect
0:37child like my
0:38Austin or an imperfect child like my
0:44Ethan. I had no imperfect children, but
0:47I also had no perfect
0:48children. And then of course the girls,
0:51they both think they're just
0:52extravagantly fantastic.
0:55And to their daddy they are.
0:58That's right.
1:00But you know, selfishness is a
1:03short-lived joy. It produces no hope and
1:08it doesn't produce any resounding effect
1:11that brings you
1:14happiness. And of course, the devil is
1:16always trying to cause people to be
1:19selfish.
1:21And yet he will give them the cloaks of
1:24selflessness. But underneath that
1:27cloak, they know and God knows there's
1:30selfishness attached. Now all of us are
1:33a little bit selfish. Well, I won't
1:35speak for you. Let me speak for me.
1:38I have been selfish in my life. And I
1:43have sought the Lord to forgive me over
1:44it. And he has. So don't come to me
1:47after church tell me what you saw.
1:53But it is a continual pursuit to try to
1:57validate what is true and what is good
2:00and as what is good report. If there's
2:03virtue in it, if there's godly praise in
2:06it, these are the things I want to build
2:08my life
2:09around. And the only way I can really
2:12discern as I go through
2:142025 is to try to filter the stuff that
2:18comes our way through the Bible.
2:20the Bible uh is a lamp unto our feet and
2:24a light unto our pathway. Now, that's a
2:26good verse, but it's also more powerful
2:28than just a verse because if you want to
2:31have clarity on how to respond to the
2:33things that you're facing, it is good
2:35for you to put it through the filter of
2:39scripture. And so, the answer to revival
2:44within us many times is rebible.
2:47If you will get more attached to the
2:50word of
2:51God, it might shock you how much
2:56emotionalism and the highs and lows of
2:58emotionalism and I am an emotional
3:00creature. But if you build your life on
3:03emotionalism, if we built this church on
3:05emot emotionalism and you felt emotion
3:08this morning, in fact, you might have
3:10even heard through your mind's eye,
3:12these people are playing emotional
3:14games. Well, we're being emotional, but
3:17we're not playing emotional games
3:19because those those go away. They fade.
3:22You you you don't have a happy home and
3:25a happy marriage and a happy children by
3:28building your life on emotion. I had one
3:32of those very abusive set of mom and
3:34dad. Uh, they told me when I was having
3:37a boring day and I wasn't getting things
3:40done like I wanted, they told me it
3:43wasn't their job to make me happy. It
3:45was my job to get happy. And that's the
3:48kind of abuse I was raised with.
3:53So, you don't have joy, go find some.
3:56That's on you. That's not on us.
3:59Now, I know this is a different day, so
4:01I'm probably going to be stifled on my
4:03YouTube views because of this this
4:06objective, but it still works. And so, I
4:12know that the only way I'm going to find
4:14joy is to rebible
4:17because in this is the road map and the
4:20pathway to the Bible. Now, we know
4:23there's a lot of people who take this
4:24Bible and they say it out there in all
4:26kinds of confusing manners. And my
4:28prayer is that I try to make it as
4:31simple simple as I can because Jesus was
4:36simple. But Peter warned us of people
4:39who would take the Bible and he said
4:42they take statements that are hard to be
4:44understood which an illaught and
4:47unprincipled people will
4:51pervert just as they do the rest of the
4:54scriptures to their own ruin. And so I'm
4:59holding in my hand a book that people
5:02have turned and bent and repositioned to
5:06make it look like the most cruel
5:07instrument in the world, to make it look
5:10like the most out of balance instrument
5:12in the world. But intellectual honesty,
5:15just being honest with the man or the
5:17woman in the mirror, demands that you
5:19understand. This is a book that's handed
5:21to us to help us know what is our next
5:25best step. We don't need a Bible
5:29rewritten. We need a Bible reread.
5:33There are a lot of people who say,
5:35"Well, you give me the right edition."
5:37Even Thomas Edison had an addition and
5:40Thomas Jefferson had an addition where
5:42he removed all the words apparently or a
5:45lot of them other than the red words,
5:47the words of
5:48Jesus. But you've got to bring this
5:50Bible as it was sacred and sanctified
5:53and handed down by miraculous means. And
5:56I don't have to tell you to the time to
5:58tell you how much of a miracle
6:01I hold in my hand. But if you have any
6:03historian in you, this is a miracle.
6:07That's right. I know we take it for
6:10granted and I do as much as you do. So I
6:11don't want to act like I maybe not, but
6:14who knows? I might take it more for
6:15granted than you do. My point is is that
6:18this is a miracle that's been handed
6:20down through
6:21generations for me to hold. Knowing more
6:25about the Bible should not make us
6:27believe less of the Bible. Just because
6:31people can quote more verses doesn't
6:34mean they should be able to
6:36disengage some of the verses. And I had
6:39a professor like that at North Carolina
6:41State who believed the Bible was the
6:43most unbelievable work of literature
6:45that he made it his profession to be the
6:46Bible professor. But he did not believe
6:49it. He just looked at it as a miraculous
6:53work of literature.
6:55I don't want this Bible to be a formula
6:58that's handed to me so I can check the
7:00boxes and go my way. And many people
7:03want religion to be come on, let us
7:05check the box of praise. Let us check
7:08the box of giving. Let us check the box
7:10of prayer and then let us go our way
7:12instead of letting God do a
7:16forensic
7:18internal look at your soul and consider
7:23I'm using some computer language right
7:24now. Okay, I'm about to impress you. You
7:26ready for a buck 50 word? To consider
7:29the algorithms of your heart.
7:33Elms don't use that word anymore.
7:35You just lost half the church.
7:40But I know they're starting to use
7:41algorithm out there. I figured I'd throw
7:43it out there to make you think I think
7:44something.
7:49One of the most telling verses about
7:50Jesus is when he talks about the
7:54multitudes and it's found in two of the
7:57gospels, Matthew and Mark. And it was a
8:00description about Jesus. It said,
8:02"Without a parable spake he not unto
8:05them." him. Now that's King James words
8:07to say he did not talk to the crowds
8:10without a simple
8:12story. Now that is stunning because when
8:16you get to the book of Mark, it goes
8:19along and says when he got the disciples
8:22alone, he expounded unto them all
8:26things. So the disciples had the
8:29breakdown, but the multitudes got the
8:33story.
8:34Now you are here on a Sunday morning. It
8:36tells me automatically you're in Fort
8:38Lauderdale. You want the breakdown.
8:42This is not the multitude. I know you
8:44may think you're in the multitudes. I
8:46may I know you may imagine you're part
8:47of the multitudes, but Ultra is in
8:50Miami.
8:52That's the
8:54multitudes. We're in church. Just the
8:57fact you came to church tells me
8:59something spectacular about you. because
9:03you decided it was valuable on this
9:06first day of the week to get in this
9:08house.
9:09So, you don't just want the story, you
9:12want the breakdown. But the concept was
9:17the Lord always gave a story that
9:20everybody could
9:21say, man, he just doesn't make sense.
9:26It's always just a little beyond me. You
9:28know, he's all the talking about seeds
9:30and
9:32plows. Did you hear him today? He talked
9:36about a treasure in the
9:38field. Good night. Why don't he just be
9:41more plain than that? Can you hear it? I
9:43hope you don't hear your own
9:45voice because this is the way people
9:48come to church and dance right out of
9:50those doors without letting it land a
9:53blow on them because they listen to
9:56their own conscience of
9:59dodgeball and say to themselves, "H, you
10:03know, that really didn't fit me
10:05today." There no real connection. I wish
10:08he'd make a connection. He's over there
10:10talking about birds in a tree.
10:12He's talking about fish in a net.
10:16The difference is hunger.
10:19Are you hungry enough
10:22to take that next step and not just be
10:26the one who goes and plays dodgeball
10:28with the message and says,
10:32"Miss, that wasn't for me today. That
10:34was for them.
10:37No, I got you with my water balloon and
10:39I'm going to baptize you today.
10:47The Bible is a great book and it does
10:50not tell us when or how the world was
10:53made. I know you've met some Christians
10:55that'll sit down and argue with you all
10:57day long. The Bible says how it was
10:59made. I'm not getting in an argument
11:02right now. The Bible is about telling us
11:05who made it. Whether it took one literal
11:09day or if every day was a thousand years
11:13or if every biblical space known of as a
11:15day took a trillion years. That isn't a
11:18heel I'm going to die on.
11:21I hope you won't. But I know a lot of
11:24Christians that'll fuss on that
11:26mountain.
11:27But the Bible isn't clear. How do we
11:29even know what a day means? Well,
11:31everybody knows what a day means. There
11:33wasn't even a
11:35sun. A day means the sun's gone around
11:38once. Is that the same world you and I
11:42live in? Is that what a day means? How
11:44do we know what a day is when this
11:46there's not even a
11:48sun? So instead of chasing that rabbit
11:51and chasing these confusing things,
11:54people who are really not trying to deal
11:55with the person in the mirror will
11:57always have a tango to get out of the
12:01way of the word. The Bible doesn't tell
12:04us how man was created. It tells us who
12:07created him and why he was
12:11created. Galileo expressed that the
12:14Bible was not given to us to teach us
12:16how the heavens
12:17go, but how to go to heaven.
12:22His exact quote was in his letter to the
12:24Grand Duchess
12:25Christina Christina in 1615. He said it
12:29like this. The intention of the Holy
12:31Ghost is to teach us how one goes to
12:34heaven, not how heaven
12:37goes. Anybody want to learn anything
12:39from Galileo? Is he anything impressive
12:41at all?
12:44And so we've got in the opening chapters
12:47and I I baby dedication was from Genesis
12:504. I mean Genesis 5, no, Genesis
12:544. Genesis 5 22 and 24. My sermon is out
13:00of Genesis
13:013. Genesis 3 is where Adam and Eve had
13:05children and they were born into or made
13:09into they weren't born chicken or the
13:12egg. They were made in the
13:16garden and this garden was perfect and
13:18every day God came in the cool of the
13:20day and walked with them. But a perfect
13:24garden did not keep sin or
13:30selfishness, its selfishness out of the
13:33garden. That's why a church will not
13:36keep you from falling.
13:39When people say, "Well, I can't go to
13:40church. There's a bunch of hypocrites
13:41there."
13:43You're exactly right. Isn't that
13:45amazing? I admit that. I'll admit that
13:48out loud from this pull pit. There are
13:51hypocrites here. Don't look
13:57around. I can see laser pointing coming
14:00out right
14:03now.
14:05No, it's not perfect. It's hypocrites.
14:08I've said it a hundred times. You can
14:10either come to church with the
14:11hypocrites or go to hell with
14:13hypocrites. What do you want to do?
14:16So you can't use the fraudulence of
14:19fallen people as an excuse to stay away
14:22from the God who gave you hope, life,
14:26and with whom your soul has to do.
14:30A perfect home will not keep sin out. A
14:33perfect marriage will not keep falling
14:36away. A perfect garden did not make for
14:39si a sinless existence. Those people
14:42say, "Well, if we just change
14:43environment, boy, it'll be so much
14:45better for people." I want improved
14:47environments. I want every day to have a
14:50better environment for my wife. I mean,
14:52she gave me a to-do list this week, and
14:54uh I'm trying to get her environment
14:56better.
14:59Uh tomorrow's my 36th
15:09anniversary. And so I can rest, we will
15:12not be sleeping in my
15:15house. Because the moment she wakes up
15:18is the moment she sees something that
15:20needs to be done.
15:24See these hands? She thinks they're the
15:26hands of a handyman.
15:44So, Adam knew Eve, his wife, and they
15:48had children. First child was Cain,
15:51second child was
15:53Abel. And
15:55ultimately, they began to do something.
15:58This is the first record of a sacrifice
16:00or offering made unto God. very first
16:02offering recognized. I believe Adam and
16:06Eve probably made offerings. I I would
16:08imagine that they saw this modeled
16:10somewhere, but there's no biblical
16:12record that it was done by Adam and Eve.
16:14We know that the Lord took an animal and
16:16slew it. So by by so doing, he modeled
16:20the cost of something to take away
16:23sin. And so there was this offering.
16:27Their parents were givers. They were
16:29givers. And so they offered this
16:31sacrificial offering. Thank you, sir.
16:34This sacrificial offering. I like the
16:36way I said that.
16:37Sacrificial. Don't say it like that,
16:40Alex. Uh sacrificial offering. And um
16:44here we have the first
16:47murder in the
16:49world. And it was made because of how
16:53one worships.
16:55Isn't it curious how people are still
16:57killing people about how they worship?
17:01Happened then, happens now. So, and you
17:04run into people say, "Religion has
17:05caused all of the wars in the world."
17:07So you're
17:09right. It's
17:11people. And so, it's a people problem.
17:14It's not a religion
17:15problem. And so, we've got this murder
17:18that happens. And there's a lot of
17:20planning that goes into it. Cain, the
17:22Bible says, takes his brother to a
17:24field, takes him far away and decides
17:29what he's going to do to his brother.
17:31And the the problem is is that he's
17:34already been addressed by God because
17:36his his visage is wroth. I'll give you
17:41what that is. He is upset and his face
17:45shows it. And the Lord said unto him,
17:48why art thou
17:51wroth? W R O T, Sister Els, Why art thou
17:56wroth? And then the Bible said, God
18:00said, you don't have to be this way. You
18:03can offer an acceptable sacrifice. Now,
18:06I know some have said, well, it was,
18:08they've speculated why Abel's sacrifice
18:12was accepted and Cain's wasn't. I'm not
18:15sure it was because one was grain and
18:17one was an animal. I'm not sure of that.
18:20That's been postulated by many preachers
18:22throughout my life. But that's not
18:23clearly spoken in the Bible. What is
18:26clearly spoken was the disposition and
18:29the approach of a Cain was not
18:33honorable. It was not upright. The Bible
18:36said that the Lord had no respect.
18:40In other words, he's something about the
18:43approach, something about the way he
18:45gave gives it, the cost of Abel's
18:48offering, the way he makes it and
18:50prepares it, and the cost he gives it
18:52with, and the manner he carries it, and
18:54he delivers this offering with a
18:56devotion. And when you compare the
18:58approach of Abel, with the approach of
19:01Cain, that brings an offering as well.
19:04But somewhere it did not rise to the
19:06level of God saying, "Uh, that's from
19:10your
19:12heart. That's from your
19:14soul." No, there was no respect for God
19:18and this offering. There's a diligence
19:21about Abel's rep approach and a
19:23submission in his dispensation or
19:26disposition. The how we do this matters.
19:31So that's the reason when we pray we
19:33have emotion. It's when our when we
19:35worship we have emotion. That's the
19:38reason when I'm praying just a little
19:39bit we're going to have emotion in this
19:41house. Why? Because how matters. It's
19:45not that I'm saying words. It's how I'm
19:47saying them. And the how isn't for
19:49others to see. It's for me to know. How
19:52seriously am I digging into my spirit
19:54and asking me myself the hard questions
19:56of saying was this for me and where or
19:58not was it but where is this for me and
20:01how can it adjust who I am or are you
20:04just checking the box knowing it's 9:28
20:07I mean not 9 11:28 and preacher is
20:10supposed to be done pretty quick here
20:12and move on so I can say a few words and
20:14be gone. How I don't know your how. You
20:17do. Come on.
20:20You know whether or not right now you're
20:22just counting the ch seconds or you're
20:25saying I got to deal with God one day
20:28and I may be 18 and have my whole life
20:30in front of me and living on the top and
20:33I'm smarter than both my parents put
20:35together and you wait till you see the
20:37money. I'm going to make it 25.
20:41Been
20:42there. until life shows up and now you
20:46got to be honorable with
20:49yourself. So Cain reveals something
20:51that's very frightening when God gave
20:54him the option to reconfigure and
20:58recalibrate his offering instead of
21:01saying, "Lord, I got to take a look at
21:03me." Here's what the spirit of Cain
21:06does. He says, "I know how to be the
21:08tallest tree in the forest.
21:11I just get around
21:13people that don't look make me look so
21:17bad. I look good with these
21:20friends. I'm doing pretty good over
21:23here. But it's much more sinister than
21:25that because he kills his brother,
21:29murders him. Now, here's part of this
21:33story. God asked Cain like God didn't
21:36know.
21:38Where is your
21:40brother? God
21:43knew. Sometimes the question God asks
21:46you, he already knows the answer
21:48to, but he's looking to see what kind of
21:50answer you're going to give.
21:53And I don't need a print out of what you
21:55pray. You need a print out of what you
21:57pray
21:59because you better be honest with
22:01yourself with whom your God is and who
22:04with whom you have to do. You don't get
22:06to vote the gods in like we do a
22:08president or vote them
22:10out. One
22:12God and father above all who is in all,
22:17above all, and through all. That God I'm
22:21going to return to. Am I being honest
22:24with him? And so here comes the question
22:28that God says, "Where are your brother?"
22:30And the answer is, am I my brother's
22:36keeper?
22:38Oh, what a question. You ask me a
22:42question. We all know this trick. You
22:44see it on the talking heads all the
22:47time. You answer the
22:50question with a
22:52question. You dance and get out of the
22:56way. And so now is when we know God
23:00said, "But but the blood of your brother
23:03cries to me."
23:07We don't just hear about Cain here in
23:09Genesis. He's not widely spoken of
23:11through the Bible very many places, but
23:14he is spoken of in the book of Hebrews.
23:18And the Bible tells us in Hebrews
23:2012:24 that the blood of Christ speaketh
23:24better things than the blood of Abel.
23:28And all of our life, at least mine, I
23:31have heard that the blood of Abel spoke
23:34vengeance. It spoke avenge me. Avenge me
23:37of my
23:38adversary. But I want to propose to you
23:41something different to consider. And
23:44that is when you look at the original
23:46word in the book of Heb in the book of
23:48Genesis when it says his brother his
23:50blood cries unto me. It's a primal
23:55scream. It is a cry of I was just
23:59murdered.
24:01But by the time the disposition or the
24:04words of Cain make it to the New
24:07Testament, the descriptive word of
24:10Cain's cry has moved from a primal
24:14scream to an
24:16articulated
24:18message. It's no longer
24:22help. It's turned to something that
24:25speaks about the things of his life. And
24:30that is not just the echoes of a crime
24:33scene, but the voice of Abel is a voice
24:38of devotion and praise. It's not a cry
24:42for vengeance, but a message for virtue.
24:46It's not a dead end, but it's a living
24:48way. It's changed because Jesus has
24:52come. And the blood of Abel now speaks
24:55things that are differently than a
24:58primal scream of it's not fair. It now
25:02has a message to speak. The blood of
25:05Jesus still is better than the blood of
25:08Abel. But the message of Abel is not one
25:11of fatality, but it has turned into a
25:14message of faithfulness. It's not a
25:16story of one stuck in the soil. It's now
25:19the message of a one who has
25:22hope and joy and delight. It's a voice
25:26that my sacrifice meant something. It
25:29was a voice that was saying my praise
25:32mattered. It was a voice that's saying,
25:34"You thought I was forgotten, but I'm
25:38still talking." It was a message that
25:41said, "You thought I was silenced, but
25:43I'm still speaking. I was in Genesis,
25:48but I'm still here in the book of
25:51Hebrews. I'm still talking. The cross of
25:55Jesus Christ empowered the message of
26:00Abel to speak not just
26:03then but
26:05now because the blood of
26:08Jesus takes every
26:12murder. You know, I am
26:15anti-abortion. If you didn't know that,
26:17I want to let you know
26:18that. I'm against
26:21abortion. I also pastor many people who
26:24have had
26:25abortions. If I let some of them preach
26:28against abortion, they would be
26:33acid. They might even be mean in their
26:37message against
26:38abortion because they have had to live
26:41the pain of it.
26:44But my point is is that I
26:47believe every aborted
26:49baby goes straight to
26:53heaven. I'm not saying mom needs to send
26:55them straight
26:57there. But I believe the Bible tells us
27:00the streets of the city was full of
27:04children.
27:06And I am convinced though that child was
27:09not allowed to be born the moment that
27:13heart started ticking, life was moving.
27:17An unstoppable process had begun. And if
27:20they're removed from this world, I
27:22believe mamas are going to be able to go
27:25on home and see their baby. You say,
27:27"Brother Elms, you're just making that
27:29up." Well, let me go down a little
27:30different road that you might not think
27:32I'm making up. What about any mama that
27:34wanted that baby and the baby died in
27:37the womb? I don't think they lost that
27:40baby either. My wife and I lost one. The
27:43first one we she was pregnant with. So,
27:46I don't have just four children. When we
27:48get to heaven, you wait till you meet my
27:50fifth child.
27:52And I got some crazy ones living down
27:54here. But when winter meets her big
27:56brother,
27:58he's going to be hilarious. And all this
28:00time he will have been looking over you
28:03and just laughing at your jokes even
28:05more than I do.
28:07What am I saying? Am I creating fantasy
28:09land?
28:13Per Please forgive my passion for for
28:16this moment. Life is more than numbers
28:19in a bank account,
28:21clocking into a job, getting an updated
28:25set of tires on your truck. Life is more
28:28than just going through and laughing
28:30your way through a sitcom every night.
28:33Life exists of things that are divine
28:36and pure and holy and forever and it's
28:40not wiped out. And so when I read
28:45Bible, I realize my prayers will never
28:48die.
28:51I realize that my praise echoes on and
28:56on and on and on and on.
28:58I realize that faithfulness still
29:01matters.
29:03I realize that honesty still wins the
29:07day.
29:08I know that it seems like injustice is
29:11on the throne. But listen, ladies and
29:13gentlemen, you get in this word, truth
29:17wins.
29:18Yes. Gospel wins. The Lord wins. We're
29:23going to a place that's filled with joy
29:25unspeakable and full of glory. And so
29:29when I read through this story about the
29:31blood of Abel speaking, it's speaking
29:35great things, not just
29:37vengeance. Not in the he book of
29:40Hebrews, but it's also saying the blood
29:42of Jesus has given me hope for
29:46everything that I have to face.
29:50the blood of
29:51Jesus that we just sang about, the cross
29:55of Jesus that we're going to be
29:57celebrating here in just a few weeks.
30:00The story of a cross and a
30:03crucifixion, the story of a grave and an
30:06empty tomb. It's not the holiday of
30:10fantasy for you and me. It is the very
30:13reason why I don't need a
30:16show to serve him.
30:23made up my
30:25mind. I'm going to live for
30:28God. I literally have gotten to the
30:30place where if my mom and dad don't want
30:32to live for God, I will love them. But
30:35I'm living for God. Gotten to the place
30:38where my wife, I love her. If she won't
30:41live for God, I'm living for God.
30:44made it to the place where my children,
30:46they are now old enough to decide they
30:48won't live for God. I'm not following
30:51them. I'm living for God. I've gotten to
30:54the place now my grandchildren cause my
30:56heart to
30:57tremble. Am I getting this truth to them
31:01as an honest pop
31:04pup? Am I telling them that it's not
31:07just a style of living, it's a life
31:12worth living?
31:14And when I get the blood of Jesus over,
31:16no matter what happens, you say, "But
31:18you don't know how I was raised, sister.
31:20You don't know what I've been through.
31:21You don't know the marriage that fell
31:22apart. You don't know the betrayal I
31:24endured. You don't know. I know I don't
31:27know. Maybe I'm not supposed to
31:30know. But I know that life throws us
31:34proverbial
31:36curveballs. And when they do, I've got
31:39to have more than a session with the
31:41psychologist.
31:43With all due respect to psychiatrist and
31:46psychologist, ladies and gentlemen, I
31:48don't need a Xanax.
31:51I need a savior.
31:54I don't need a bottle of
31:56wine. I need a redeemer.
31:59I need a hope that lasts beyond the
32:02setting of the sun.
32:05I need something that turns the entire
32:08story around and takes hopelessness and
32:10reintroduces hope into my life.
32:15And uh not knowing me, knowing me won't
32:17do that for you. Being in this church
32:20will not do that for you. And I hope you
32:23I hope you love this church. We work
32:25hard to earn your appreciation. But
32:28ladies and gentlemen, that's not where
32:30your hope is at if you don't know Jesus
32:32Christ. and the Bible's truth about who
32:37he is for you. I can't do anything for
32:39you. I can shake your hand. I can love
32:42you. I can appreciate you as a citizen
32:44of the nation. But ladies and gentlemen,
32:46that's it. I've got to get out of the
32:49way and get your hand and reach up to
32:53heaven and get his hand and
32:59somehow.
33:01Hallelujah. In Jesus name. In Jesus
33:07name. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. In
33:13Jesus name.
33:15And when you
33:17get connected to
33:21him, everything else
33:24fades.
33:29Healing. There's
33:32deliverance.
33:34Deliverance. Not bound by the
33:37same
33:39slavery of the soul that has been
33:42taunting you.
33:45Fear is no longer your master. I'm
33:49talking to somebody right now. I know
33:52you're dressed up and you're looking
33:53real good, but the Holy Ghost would have
33:55me to tell you fear is too big to you.
34:00You need to find a power to deflate
34:02those fears and start walking with your
34:05head up again and your hopes out again
34:07and your dreams in color again and start
34:11realizing that it's not over just
34:12because a part of you has been
34:18murdered. And I don't think I overspoke
34:21when I just said
34:24that. Part of you has literally been
34:30slashed and you've had a primal screen
34:33that you've tried to cover with a
34:35thousand
34:37things. And this
34:40morning, the Lord is wanting to turn
34:43your
34:44primal
34:46screen into an
34:49articulation of hope and
34:52promise
34:54because it is
34:57well with the Lord. Shall we stand?
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