Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Do today's message.
Speaker 2: I just want to pray and then we'll get into
Speaker 2: the Word of God. Is that all right? Holy Spirit,
Speaker 2: give us our peace back. Amen.
Speaker 3: When you really need something you don't, you don't have
Speaker 3: a lot of Father God's.
Speaker 2: To get out.
Speaker 3: When you're desperate for something that you haven't had in
Speaker 3: a long time and you've been missing something, you got
Speaker 3: to get straight to the point.
Speaker 2: You don't have no time to be trying to be like.
Speaker 3: Oh, Father God, the creator of the entire universe, who
Speaker 3: birthed the stars from the very utterance of your voice. No,
Speaker 3: when you really get into a desperate place with God,
Speaker 3: you just start going help. I need you now, Please
Speaker 3: help me today. The series, the missing piece was birth
Speaker 3: from my own journey to find the peace that God
Speaker 3: had given us through his son Ya Shuah. He makes
Speaker 3: this plane. This is not something we have to search for.
Speaker 3: It is not inconspicuous. He is absolutely blatant with the
Speaker 3: way that he wants us.
Speaker 2: To have this peace.
Speaker 3: The Gospel according to John chapter number fourteen, verse number
Speaker 3: twenty seven, and the Tree of Life version of the Bible,
Speaker 3: Gesus speaks these words, Shalom, I leave you, should my
Speaker 3: shalom I give you get this, but not as the
Speaker 3: world gives, which means that the.
Speaker 2: World does have a version of peace. Before we think.
Speaker 3: That the enemy doesn't have a counterfeit to anything that
Speaker 3: God gives. The enemy does have a version of peace,
Speaker 3: but it is temporary. What your shoe is saying here
Speaker 3: is that I am leaving you a shalom that is eternal.
Speaker 2: I am leaving you a shalom that is going to last.
Speaker 3: It will not be contingent upon the day or how
Speaker 3: you feel how much money is in your bank account. Shaloam,
Speaker 3: I leave you my shalom I give to you, but
Speaker 3: not as the world gives. Then he says this, do
Speaker 3: not let your heart be troubled or afraid.
Speaker 2: Now this is what got me.
Speaker 3: There's no way that Jesus can make that last statement
Speaker 3: if he means to think for us to think that
Speaker 3: this peace has something to do with a feeling.
Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with chill.
Speaker 3: Bumps or Pastor Rowe sung your favorite song, or if
Speaker 3: the air conditioning settings are just right, or if you
Speaker 3: have enough money in the bank account, or if the
Speaker 3: person that you like likes you back, or if you
Speaker 3: got the promotion on the job, or if you have
Speaker 3: a job at all. He says, let not your heart
Speaker 3: be troubled or afraid. What he means then, is that
Speaker 3: I'm giving you something and leaving you something that you
Speaker 3: are going to need on.
Speaker 2: Your worst day.
Speaker 3: Out of all the things that your shore could have
Speaker 3: left us, he leaves us peace. How Come it's not wisdom.
Speaker 3: How Come it's not revelation we need that? How Come
Speaker 3: he doesn't leave us a great heaping deposit of resources
Speaker 3: out of all the things he could have left us,
Speaker 3: He said, here's the thing you're gonna need most when
Speaker 3: I leave. You're going to need peace. What's going to
Speaker 3: literally make you stand out from all of the other
Speaker 3: people that you're living with in your present day is
Speaker 3: that you are going to be calm while they are
Speaker 3: crashing out. Y'all are going to be going through the
Speaker 3: same exact experience, but you're going to be having different
Speaker 3: dispositions in the experience. So all of y'all could have
Speaker 3: gotten laid off from the job. But while they're panicking,
Speaker 3: you have peace. Everybody could have been going through relationship problems,
Speaker 3: but while they are crying, you have peace.
Speaker 2: The peace of God.
Speaker 3: Passes all understanding and guards your heart in your mind.
Speaker 2: Now, remember he left.
Speaker 3: It for us, and he literally says, I give it
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: Then how did we lose it? And I'm talking about
Speaker 2: like in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Right now, there are so many people who are not
Speaker 3: at peace. They have enough peace to get through the day,
Speaker 3: but if traffic is too heavy, somehow they lose their peace.
Speaker 2: They have enough peace to get through the day.
Speaker 3: But if they decide to scroll through their timeline and
Speaker 3: seeing a post that bothers them, they lose their peace.
Speaker 3: They had a good day at work, as soon as
Speaker 3: they walk in the door, they have somehow lost there.
Speaker 2: Why is it? How is it it's so easy to lose?
Speaker 2: How are we losing our peace?
Speaker 3: That quick over stuff that God is looking over the
Speaker 3: balcony of heaven and going what is that?
Speaker 2: I mean, can we just be honest for a moment.
Speaker 3: We live in a very good country.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: Pastor Amberley just got back from the other side of
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 2: She was in Africa for a month.
Speaker 3: There's some people on the continent of Africa going through
Speaker 3: things that we have not experienced on our worst day.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to dismiss your experience by showing you
Speaker 3: somebody on the other side of the world. I do
Speaker 3: just want you to compare for a moment, what we
Speaker 3: call a bad day and what we're losing our peace over.
Speaker 2: But I don't blame anyone.
Speaker 3: In this room, including myself, for the days that peace
Speaker 3: is hard to grasp, because.
Speaker 2: We are not the original ones that lost it.
Speaker 3: Peace wasn't just lost when you lost your job, or
Speaker 3: you got the divorce, or you got a bad doctor's notice,
Speaker 3: or you found out that you had something foreign in
Speaker 3: your body. It wasn't burst out of the disappointment that
Speaker 3: you've had with a child, or a situation that's going
Speaker 3: on at your job, the wrestlings that you're having, the
Speaker 3: inner turmoil, the wrestle that you might be having with
Speaker 3: God in this moment, still trying to hold onto your
Speaker 3: faith even though you are fighting disbelief on every side.
Speaker 2: You didn't just lose it. You're not the first to
Speaker 2: have to go search for it. No, this started way
Speaker 2: before you.
Speaker 3: This started way before me. This goes all the way
Speaker 3: back to the book of Genesis. We lost this in
Speaker 3: the garden. Therefore, we have to go back to the
Speaker 3: garden to figure out why we lost it in the
Speaker 3: first place. If you're taking notes on this message, this
Speaker 3: first message in this six week series is entitled What's.
Speaker 2: Really going on? And I feel churchy today, So just.
Speaker 3: Look at your neighbor and just tell them what's really
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 2: What's really going on?
Speaker 3: I know there's seven introverts in here, like please God, No,
Speaker 3: I don't want to look at my neighbor. I don't
Speaker 3: have a neighbor to my left or my rights. I
Speaker 3: sat in the back on purpose. Look at your other neighbor.
Speaker 3: Look at your other neighbors, say other neighbor, thank you
Speaker 3: for brushing your teeth that way when you say Hallelujah.
Speaker 3: That does not torture me.
Speaker 2: God, bless you. Thank you. Look at your other neighbor,
Speaker 2: say other neighbor.
Speaker 4: What's really going on?
Speaker 2: That's the question we got to answer.
Speaker 3: We have to answer the question of what's really going on. Genesis,
Speaker 3: chapter number two, verse number twenty five is the crescendo
Speaker 3: of God's creation he has spent six days creating the
Speaker 3: heavens and the earth. He has separated land from water,
Speaker 3: he has separated light from darkness. He has separated air
Speaker 3: and space. He has made galaxies and cosmos and terrain
Speaker 3: and birds, and I mean, just a show off. God
Speaker 3: is an absolute show off. When you look at his creation,
Speaker 3: he's just showing off. His creative power was so magnanimous
Speaker 3: that the stuff that he created, he just got bored
Speaker 3: and it just started looking ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Have you seen an octopus? After all them beautiful.
Speaker 3: Fish he made, he was just like, just put eight
Speaker 3: legs on it and give it some tentacles and let
Speaker 3: it be able to squeeze.
Speaker 2: Into a water bottle. I don't care. I'm just do
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: We're still finding stuff he created and looking at.
Speaker 2: It and going what is this?
Speaker 3: We still finding variations of frogs and monkeys and cats,
Speaker 3: And if you go deep enough into the sea, you
Speaker 3: seeing stuff that's never seen light the first time you
Speaker 3: put a.
Speaker 2: Light on this, looking back at you like what are
Speaker 2: you doing down here? And you're like, he.
Speaker 3: Made everything, and his crescendo was a man out of dirt.
Speaker 3: The crescendo of his creation was to put the pull
Speaker 3: man out of dirt and breathe into this man the
Speaker 3: breadth of living life, and the man became a living soul.
Speaker 3: He named everything that was on the earth at the time,
Speaker 3: but he found no suitable help meet for himself. It
Speaker 3: was God who said it is not good for this
Speaker 3: man to be alone. It was not Adam's decision. It
Speaker 3: was not Adam's recognition. It was God's. God was the
Speaker 3: one who said it is not good for this man
Speaker 3: to be alone. Now there's a lot of people that
Speaker 3: think that this is merely a marital statement, but it's
Speaker 3: not just a marital statement.
Speaker 2: It's a relational statement.
Speaker 3: None of us were created to live life alone. I
Speaker 3: know you think you're a loner. I know you want
Speaker 3: to be left alone. I know you think you need
Speaker 3: to be left alone. But here's what happens to people
Speaker 3: who are left alone. They go crazy. Do you know,
Speaker 3: even in the prison system, where you're already locked down
Speaker 3: for the rest of your life or for how many
Speaker 3: years you have to serve, even if you're on lockdown
Speaker 3: twenty three hours a day, they let you out for
Speaker 3: an hour. But even in the prison system, if you
Speaker 3: decide to do the worst thing of the worst already
Speaker 3: in the prison system. They have another punishment for you,
Speaker 3: and it's called solitary confinement, and they put you in
Speaker 3: solitary confinement as the ultimate punishment because they know what happens.
Speaker 2: When you're alone.
Speaker 3: At first, it seems tranquil, speaking as an introvert, I
Speaker 3: love to be left alone.
Speaker 2: I love quiet time. I love to be by myself.
Speaker 2: But after a while, I need other people. Now you
Speaker 2: might be thinking, yes, Tim, you need your wife, and
Speaker 2: you need your kids. I need huber eats. You're thinking
Speaker 2: two d this is very shallow.
Speaker 4: I need other people.
Speaker 5: Because I'm not leaving my house, so I need some
Speaker 5: other people to help me stay in my house.
Speaker 2: So please bring this burrito to my house. Please please
Speaker 2: bring the nachos.
Speaker 4: To my house.
Speaker 2: It is not good for man to be alone.
Speaker 3: She puts the man to sleep. Scripture says that he
Speaker 3: removes a rib. Most Messianic Jewish believers say that he
Speaker 3: was torn in half, and from what remained he formed
Speaker 3: the woman. And he presented the woman to the man,
Speaker 3: and the man looked at the woman and said, finally,
Speaker 3: that's what happens when a man finds the woman that
Speaker 3: he wants to be with for the rest of his Finally, girl,
Speaker 3: where you been been out here naming horses.
Speaker 2: And donkeys and.
Speaker 4: Birds, roaches, mice?
Speaker 2: Where was you?
Speaker 3: Finally, this is bone of my bone, This is flesh
Speaker 3: of my flesh. This is me outside of me, looking
Speaker 3: back at me, talking to me about me.
Speaker 2: This is me. Genesis two twenty five says, Now.
Speaker 3: Both of them were naked, the man and his wife,
Speaker 3: and they were not.
Speaker 2: A shame.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you what peace looked like in the garden.
Speaker 3: Peace looked like absolute wholeness. Peace looked like the absence
Speaker 3: of shame. Peace looked like absolute content. We're not just
Speaker 3: talking about how you feel on the inside. We're talking
Speaker 3: about your entire environment being at peace. There was no
Speaker 3: threat coming to you.
Speaker 2: They were naked and they were not shamed.
Speaker 3: I love how TV introduces Genesis chapter number three and
Speaker 3: verse number one. But the serpent was shrewder than any
Speaker 3: animal of the field that out of night lo he made.
Speaker 3: So it said to the woman, Did God really say
Speaker 3: you must not eat from all the trees of the garden?
Speaker 2: Did he not really say?
Speaker 3: The woman said to the serpent, of the fruit of
Speaker 3: the trees, we may eat but of the fruits of
Speaker 3: the tree which is in the middle of the garden.
Speaker 3: God said, you must not eat of it, and you
Speaker 3: must not touch it, or you will die. The serpent
Speaker 3: says to the woman, you most assurely won't die, for
Speaker 3: God knows that when you eat of it the eyes
Speaker 3: your eyes will be open, and you will be like God,
Speaker 3: knowing good and evil. A woman saw that the tree
Speaker 3: was good for food, and that it was a thing
Speaker 3: of lust for the eyes, and that the tree was
Speaker 3: desirable for imparting wisdom. So she took of his fruit,
Speaker 3: and she ate. She also gave to her husband, who
Speaker 3: was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of
Speaker 3: both of them were open, and they knew that they
Speaker 3: were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made
Speaker 3: for themselves loin coverings. And they said, and they heard
Speaker 3: the sound of adenai Eloheim going to and fro in
Speaker 3: the garden in the wind of the day. So the
Speaker 3: man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of
Speaker 3: adenai Eloheim in the midst of the tree of the garden.
Speaker 3: Then adonai Eloheim called to the man and said to him,
Speaker 3: where are you. Then he said, your sound, I heard
Speaker 3: it in the garden, and I was afraid because I
Speaker 3: am naked. I hid myself And he said, who told you.
Speaker 2: That you were naked?
Speaker 3: Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded
Speaker 3: you not to eat? Then the man said, the woman
Speaker 3: whom you gave to be with me, she gave me
Speaker 3: of the tree, and I ate at Anielaheim said to
Speaker 3: the woman, what did you do? The woman said the
Speaker 3: serpent to save me, and I ate. I want you
Speaker 3: to imagine for a moment that you have been experiencing
Speaker 3: the incredible peace of God in such a way that
Speaker 3: you can be completely naked.
Speaker 2: And not even know you naked. This is the same
Speaker 2: This is the same posture that babies have.
Speaker 3: Because babies are born in innocence, They are born without shame.
Speaker 2: They have no idea what is right and wrong.
Speaker 3: It's the closest thing to Eden that you can get
Speaker 3: is when you birth the baby, and the first six, seven, eight,
Speaker 3: nine months, the first year, two years, they are living
Speaker 3: in what Eden was always supposed to be.
Speaker 2: You can't get a baby to have shame.
Speaker 3: If you paid them, babies would just walk out in
Speaker 3: front of your company.
Speaker 2: Len Mama, Mama, I ma'ma hungry boy.
Speaker 4: Put some clothes on.
Speaker 2: They don't know, and it's equal between the little boys
Speaker 2: and the little girls. The little girls come out my back,
Speaker 2: my back.
Speaker 4: Why they have no shame.
Speaker 3: Now, imagine if you had that type of unashamnness as
Speaker 3: an adult.
Speaker 2: In the presence of God, there was no shame.
Speaker 3: They can look at each other's nekedness and behold the
Speaker 3: beauty of it without even thinking. They had no foreign
Speaker 3: thoughts in their mind. They were at complete peace. And
Speaker 3: Satan hates peace.
Speaker 2: Satan hates peace so much that he started to observe
Speaker 2: where Eve was going. He started to observe Eve's behavior.
Speaker 3: He noticed something before he said something. This is what
Speaker 3: the enemy does with all of us. He starts to
Speaker 3: study our behavioral patterns.
Speaker 2: Ooh, they going over near that.
Speaker 4: Tree a lot.
Speaker 2: I wonder why they liked that tree so much. I
Speaker 2: wonder what I get. Ooh, that's the tree that he
Speaker 2: told him not to touch.
Speaker 1: She over there a lot.
Speaker 2: She's not touching it, she's not eating of it, but
Speaker 2: she sure is close.
Speaker 3: What is it about us that, even when we have
Speaker 3: all the peace, and even when God has blessed us
Speaker 3: with so much, we want the thing he told us?
Speaker 2: We can't have anybody beside me, can admit that.
Speaker 3: That God has blessed me with a lot, and still
Speaker 3: there's something on the inside of me that wants to
Speaker 3: go near the thing that he told me I.
Speaker 2: Should not touch anybody beside me.
Speaker 3: Ever, being in that season of life where you got everything,
Speaker 3: if somebody would have ask.
Speaker 2: You, man, why are you over here by that tree?
Speaker 2: Don't you have enough?
Speaker 3: And you like, yeah, I do, then mang goals is hidden.
Speaker 3: I like the mangoals, and I like I like the apples,
Speaker 3: and and and and the pairs.
Speaker 2: They're nice. I love me a plum. But this one movie.
Speaker 3: Eve never said anything out of her mouth to confirm
Speaker 3: the desire, but her body.
Speaker 2: Was telling on her. Her location was telling on her.
Speaker 3: Even though she wasn't saying she wanted it, her body
Speaker 3: was showing by proximity. There's something about this that I'm
Speaker 3: so intrigued by that even though I have all these
Speaker 3: other options, I've disregarded them because I.
Speaker 2: Want that one.
Speaker 3: So the enemy scripture says, who is the shrewdest of
Speaker 3: all the creatures that God had made?
Speaker 2: Comes out of nowhere? And here's the thing.
Speaker 3: If you go back to Genesis three to one. Here's
Speaker 3: the thing that I don't like about Satan at all.
Speaker 3: He's I know that he's a liar, he's the father
Speaker 3: of lies.
Speaker 2: I know he's a deceiver. He says, discord among the brethren.
Speaker 2: I know all of that. But I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 2: what else I don't like about this fool.
Speaker 3: He is rude, completely impolite, who starts off a conversation
Speaker 3: like this.
Speaker 2: But the serpent was.
Speaker 3: Shrewder than any animal of the field that Ada nih
Speaker 3: Eloheem made. So he said to the woman, this is
Speaker 3: your first interaction with this woman. It is not Hello,
Speaker 3: how are you good to meet you?
Speaker 2: My name is? It is did God really say?
Speaker 3: We've never talked before, We've never had a prior discussion.
Speaker 3: I want you to imagine if you were in our
Speaker 3: seven trying to choose between sour dough or like multi grain.
Speaker 3: My brother said he hates like Ezekiel bread because he said,
Speaker 3: why is there so much cereal on top of that bread?
Speaker 3: When I tell you I was weak when he said
Speaker 3: that I don't like that bread it got a bunch
Speaker 3: of cereal on top of it, I said, boy.
Speaker 2: If you shut up, I want you if you imagine
Speaker 2: if you if you you were by yourself, ain't nobody
Speaker 2: around you?
Speaker 3: And you're trying to decide between sour though or or
Speaker 3: or Ezekiel bread and and and and somebody just walks
Speaker 3: up behind you and says, did God say you cannot
Speaker 3: have any bread?
Speaker 4: First of all, who are you?
Speaker 2: Who are you talking to?
Speaker 3: He gets them the question did God really say you
Speaker 3: must not eat.
Speaker 2: From all the trees of the garden? He asked a
Speaker 2: question to raise a doubt.
Speaker 3: See, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we start losing
Speaker 3: our peace when we start questioning stuff that God has
Speaker 3: already told us that.
Speaker 2: We should not eat. We start losing our peace when
Speaker 2: we want.
Speaker 3: To party make of things that God has already set
Speaker 3: a boundary around, because He knows better than us what
Speaker 3: we need and what we don't. Do you not know?
Speaker 3: I gotta I'm so glad I got six weeks because
Speaker 3: I ain't gotta like rush and be done.
Speaker 2: Oh, ladies and gentlemen, do you not know that you
Speaker 2: were never supposed to learn by experience?
Speaker 3: I know we've all heard that experience is the best teacher,
Speaker 3: But I need you to know from the beginning we
Speaker 3: were never supposed to learn from experience.
Speaker 2: We were always supposed to learn by faith.
Speaker 3: We were never supposed to touch the stove to know
Speaker 3: that it was hot. We were supposed to believe the
Speaker 3: one that knew the stove was hot, and never.
Speaker 2: Touch the stove trying to help somebody.
Speaker 3: We were always supposed to learn by faith the stove
Speaker 3: is hot.
Speaker 2: Well, how do you know if you never touched it?
Speaker 2: Because my daddy told me so. Well, Uh, that fruit
Speaker 2: is delicious, you should eat it. Well, I can't eat it. Well,
Speaker 2: why don't you eat it?
Speaker 3: Because my daddy told me that I would lose something
Speaker 3: if I ate that fruit.
Speaker 2: Well, how do you know if you've never ate it?
Speaker 2: Because I believe what he told me. We were never
Speaker 2: supposed to learn from experience. We were supposed to learn
Speaker 2: by faith.
Speaker 3: Faith is the substance of things, hope for the evidence
Speaker 3: of things not seen. We should walk by faith and
Speaker 3: not by The woman said to the serpent, of the
Speaker 3: fruit of the trees, we may eat, yes, But the
Speaker 3: fruit of the tree, which is in the middle of
Speaker 3: the garden, God said, get this.
Speaker 2: You must not eat of it, and you must not
Speaker 2: touch it, or you will die.
Speaker 3: This is how Satan knew that Eve was ripe for
Speaker 3: disobedience because she added something to God's word.
Speaker 2: At a night.
Speaker 3: Elohem said, the day that you eat thereof you will
Speaker 3: surely die. When Eve repeats to the serpent, what add
Speaker 3: a night? Eloheim says she added something to it. He said,
Speaker 3: we should not eat it, and we shouldn't even touch it.
Speaker 2: The enemy's waiting to know if you know God's word
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 3: He wants to know if you add something to it
Speaker 3: or take something away from it. Because in the moment
Speaker 3: that he knows, oh I got them to add something
Speaker 3: to it, or I got something to take away from it,
Speaker 3: he knows that you can compromise because you don't know what.
Speaker 4: He actually said. You're starting to add stuff to it.
Speaker 3: She was never gonna die if she walked past it
Speaker 3: and picked it up and threw.
Speaker 2: It in the bushes.
Speaker 3: She was only gonna die if she took part of
Speaker 3: it and ate it. But the moment she added something
Speaker 3: to God's word, he knew, Oh I got her. She
Speaker 3: thinks she knows her book. This is why we need
Speaker 3: a generation that's biblically literate. This is why before you
Speaker 3: get anything, you need to get the word of God.
Speaker 3: And this is why I read you the word of God,
Speaker 3: because only the word of God is what you have
Speaker 3: to stand on on the nights that you need to
Speaker 3: know if He is real or not. You don't need
Speaker 3: a motivational speech. You don't need no inspirational word. You
Speaker 3: need to stand on God's word because God's.
Speaker 4: Word is the only thing that will not fail.
Speaker 2: But if you only.
Speaker 3: Heard the word, but you didn't read the word, that's
Speaker 3: when you start messing up the word.
Speaker 2: He never said you don't have to touch it, He said,
Speaker 2: don't need it.
Speaker 3: Because she didn't know her word, he started to mess
Speaker 3: with the words. Hear me, because she didn't know the word,
Speaker 3: he started to mess with the words.
Speaker 2: Here's what he said.
Speaker 3: The serpent said to the woman, you most assuredly won't die.
Speaker 3: And this is what makes him a deceiver in this moment,
Speaker 3: and not a liar. There was a difference between deception
Speaker 3: and a lie. A lie is absence of truth. Deception
Speaker 3: has a little shred of truth in it. She was
Speaker 3: absolutely right. The serpent was absolutely right, you won't assuredly die.
Speaker 3: What she was thinking was I was just gonna drop dead.
Speaker 3: What she didn't understand is that she was gonna start dying.
Speaker 3: Who has a cell phone in this room? Pull it
Speaker 3: out real quick, pull it out, pull it out, pull
Speaker 3: it on, Put your cell phone out, put it up
Speaker 3: in the air. I don't care if you Android the Apple.
Speaker 2: I don't care. Nobody's gonna get rebuked for investing in
Speaker 2: a green robot. I don't care. I don't care.
Speaker 3: Okay, right now you hold it up with confidence. Huh,
Speaker 3: your phone is dying right now. Your phone is dying
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Some of you all are like, I'm not nine or
Speaker 3: nine percent. Bless God, phone ain't dying. I can watch
Speaker 3: a hale all day. Why did I say that like that?
Speaker 2: I felt it. That's what it was. I've been I
Speaker 2: can watch a whole movie right now. I got nine
Speaker 2: to nine percent.
Speaker 4: I can listen to my whole playlist thrice.
Speaker 2: But there's somebody else in here that's.
Speaker 3: That that that that has fifteen percent, And you like,
Speaker 3: I'm conserving my battery. I'm only taking important phone calls.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I won't even text message you right now. I got
Speaker 3: an older model. It'll dream my battery if I text
Speaker 3: back to you that I'm only at fifteen percent. My
Speaker 3: chargers in the car. I need some time. Some of
Speaker 3: y'all are real confident because you got a whole battery
Speaker 3: pack connected to your phone. You like I got plenty
Speaker 3: of charge. It's still dying, and it's dying because it's
Speaker 3: not connected to the source. The moment you disconnected from
Speaker 3: the source, it starts dying. So the enemy deceived her
Speaker 3: into thinking that she would not surely die. Yes, he
Speaker 3: was writing that she wouldn't drop dead, but she did
Speaker 3: start dying because her disconnection.
Speaker 2: Was her disobedience. He says to herd for God.
Speaker 3: Knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will
Speaker 3: be open and you will be like God, knowing good
Speaker 3: and evil. Here's where the enemy made them lose their peace.
Speaker 3: He made them lose their peace by convincing them that
Speaker 3: God was.
Speaker 2: Holding out on them.
Speaker 3: He gave you this entire garden, but he's reserved something.
Speaker 3: Why won't he let you have that? He doesn't want
Speaker 3: you to have that because you'll be like him. Wait
Speaker 3: a minute. I was created in his image in Genesis
Speaker 3: chapter number one, involuntarily.
Speaker 2: We weren't even.
Speaker 3: There to say pick me, pick me. He said, let
Speaker 3: us make man in our image. He's the one that
Speaker 3: gave them dominion over the earth that he created, He
Speaker 3: had already blessed him with everything that they ever needed.
Speaker 2: But the enemy is so.
Speaker 3: Good of convincing us that God is holding out on us,
Speaker 3: that He's given you a lot, but he held.
Speaker 2: Something else back, and you need to go get that.
Speaker 2: He's robbing you.
Speaker 3: He's given you something, but you need some more, and
Speaker 3: he wants you to have some more. Anybody beside me
Speaker 3: ever overextended yourself past God's grace.
Speaker 2: I love an honest church.
Speaker 3: Anybody you had everything God gave you, but then you
Speaker 3: were like, I think he wants me to have a
Speaker 3: little bit more.
Speaker 2: And then you got what you wanted, and now you
Speaker 2: don't want what you got now.
Speaker 3: Now the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
Speaker 3: and that it was a thing of lust for the eyes,
Speaker 3: and that the tree was desirable for imparting wisdom. This
Speaker 3: is a less of the flesh, lust of the eyes,
Speaker 3: and the pride of life right here. If you want
Speaker 3: to know why the why we needed a second man, Adam,
Speaker 3: is because the first man Adam did this. Now the
Speaker 3: woman saw that the tree was good for food, and
Speaker 3: that it was a thing of lust for the eyes,
Speaker 3: and that the tree was desirable for imparting wisdom. So
Speaker 3: she took of his fruit and she ate. She also
Speaker 3: gave her husband, who was with her, and he ate.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Adam, ooh, Adam, child, let me tell
Speaker 3: you something. If they in heaven when I die, I'm
Speaker 3: telling you all right now, after I worship God for
Speaker 3: a millennia, I'm going the first thousand years is the
Speaker 3: first fruits for the rest of eternity. For a thousand years,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do nothing but praise his name. But on
Speaker 3: the thousandth year and one day, if they made it
Speaker 3: to heaven, I'm gonna ask Jesus where they at. I
Speaker 3: had to spend my whole life with clothes on because
Speaker 3: of y'all. It could have been a balmy sixty eight
Speaker 3: degrees all over the world. I could have been rioting
Speaker 3: bareback on the back of a lion, but them jokers
Speaker 3: could maul me because of you.
Speaker 6: You had all this fruit in the garden. You watched
Speaker 6: your wife look take eat and pass it to you,
Speaker 6: and you didn't slap it out of her hand. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna tell you what should have happened. What should have
Speaker 6: happened is she looks, she took she ate, and when
Speaker 6: she went.
Speaker 3: Like that, he should have said, girl, what in the
Speaker 3: world do you think you do it? Instead of because
Speaker 3: he understood what the penalty was. He knew the penalty
Speaker 3: was death. But instead of the first man, Adam dying for.
Speaker 2: His wife, he died with his wife.
Speaker 3: And that's why we needed a second man at him,
Speaker 3: because we needed the atom that would die for us and.
Speaker 2: Not die with us.
Speaker 3: Then the eyes of both of them were open, and
Speaker 3: they knew that they were naked. Wait a minute, they
Speaker 3: had already been naked. See, we were unashamed, and that's
Speaker 3: where peace is. But the moment we disobeyed, shame came in.
Speaker 3: The first fracture of our piece is shame the disobedience
Speaker 3: that caused it. But the first felt experience. It's not lust,
Speaker 3: it's not anger, it's not murder, it's not bitterness, it's
Speaker 3: not jealousy, it's not pettiness. The first action and experience
Speaker 3: of our disobedience was shame.
Speaker 2: We know we're naked, and now we don't know what
Speaker 2: to do with it. And get this, they're not ashamed
Speaker 2: of each other's nakedness, they're ashamed of their own.
Speaker 3: They don't know what to make sense of each other
Speaker 3: because they can't make sense of themselves. So they sewed
Speaker 3: fig leaves together and made for themselves loin coverings.
Speaker 2: They go from the little two year old Mama that
Speaker 2: ain't hey.
Speaker 3: Two okay, I can't let nobody see me like this.
Speaker 3: And they heard the sound of Ada ni Elohim going
Speaker 3: to and fro in the garden in the wind of
Speaker 3: the day. So the man and his wife hid themselves
Speaker 3: from the presence of Ada ni Elohim in the missis
Speaker 3: of the tree of the garden.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine.
Speaker 3: Being so full of shame that when you hear God's
Speaker 3: presence show up, you hide from the one that created you.
Speaker 3: Can Can I tell you how Genesis three should have
Speaker 3: played out, even after they sin. After Adam bit that
Speaker 3: fruit and recognize his neckedness.
Speaker 2: He should have went streaking through the garden at the
Speaker 2: top of his lungs.
Speaker 4: Da dad, I I'm not God?
Speaker 2: What this sit got those? What is this? Tell me?
Speaker 3: Shame will make you run from the person that created you.
Speaker 3: Shame will make you run from the person that created it.
Speaker 3: I never want to be so full of shame that
Speaker 3: I run from God's presence. I want to be able
Speaker 3: to run into God's presence even on my worst day. God,
Speaker 3: here I am again. I'm so sorry. I know. This
Speaker 3: is my thirteenth time. I told you I wouldn't do
Speaker 3: it the last time. This is number thirteen. But I'm
Speaker 3: back in your presence again because where else.
Speaker 4: Can I go?
Speaker 3: If I make my bed in heaven, you will be there.
Speaker 3: If I make my bed in hell, you will be there.
Speaker 3: There's no place that I can run from your presence.
Speaker 3: So it's me again, Oh Lord, standing.
Speaker 2: In the need of prayer.
Speaker 3: And they heard the sound of that of night elo
Speaker 3: Him going to and fro in the garden the wind
Speaker 3: to day, so they hid themselves. Okay, next one, first,
Speaker 3: number nine. Then Adam night Eloheen called to the man
Speaker 3: and said to him, where are you?
Speaker 2: This is the question.
Speaker 3: That brings us to where we need to be today,
Speaker 3: because I love that Ada night Eloheim showed up. His
Speaker 3: first question was not what have you done? His first
Speaker 3: statement was not I can't believe you. He does not
Speaker 3: step in with a judgmental tone, talking about see, this
Speaker 3: is why I can't give y'all nothing. Only been two
Speaker 3: chapters and you found your way to mess it up.
Speaker 3: Because I don't know how much time has been so
Speaker 3: I can only go by the chair. I'm so sorry
Speaker 3: the way the text reads, I don't know how am
Speaker 3: I supposed to know?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Gave you all these mangos, all these grapes?
Speaker 2: All right? Only the parents can identify with me that
Speaker 2: got teenagers.
Speaker 5: I bought them groceries yesterday. How you go through fourteen
Speaker 5: gallons of punch in a day? YopE, has to be
Speaker 5: high fruit toast, corn syrup.
Speaker 2: What is wrong with you?
Speaker 4: Drink some water? Oh is thirsty?
Speaker 3: You cannot drink Hawaiian punch. I'm not going back to
Speaker 3: Costco until next month. I'm not going back to Sam's Club.
Speaker 2: You done ate?
Speaker 4: Fourteen bags are romen in two and a half days?
Speaker 2: You noodle you. He did not shame them. This is
Speaker 2: very important.
Speaker 3: They were already full of shame. They already felt shame.
Speaker 3: So when Adam and I Eloheem shows up, he does
Speaker 3: not show up to shame. He doesn't show up to
Speaker 3: do anything but ask a question, where are you? And
Speaker 3: this is a beautiful question that God asked. Because God's
Speaker 3: not asking the question because he's looking for Adam.
Speaker 2: He knows where Adam is. Adam and I.
Speaker 3: Elohem asked this question to see if Adam knows where
Speaker 3: Adam is? Do you know where you are today? If
Speaker 3: God were to ask you the question where are you?
Speaker 3: Could you properly ask the question? Or would you let your.
Speaker 2: Shame become so immense that you shifted to blame? Where
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 3: It's a very direct question. He's talking to Adam, where
Speaker 3: are you? And here is Adam's response, your sound.
Speaker 2: I heard you, I got afraid. I hid because I'm naked.
Speaker 2: And then God asked the second question, who told you that?
Speaker 2: I mean I made you.
Speaker 3: Fearfully and wonderfully made you. You were so pristine you
Speaker 3: didn't need to be covered up with anything. I wanted
Speaker 3: you exposed. I wanted you vulnerable. I wanted you on display.
Speaker 3: Who told you you were naked? This is a very
Speaker 3: important question because if I didn't tell you, where are
Speaker 3: you getting your narrative from. I know there's some people
Speaker 3: in here that have started going to therapy, God bless you.
Speaker 3: I know there's some people in here that are still reserving.
Speaker 2: I ain't going to therapy. My therapist is God, and
Speaker 2: I don't need nobody with Jesus, and I.
Speaker 3: Would say you are right, and you are wrong, because
Speaker 3: God is the first therapist. The first two questions he
Speaker 3: asked humanity are the first two questions that a therapist
Speaker 3: asked you in your first session.
Speaker 2: Where are you? Thank you for booking this time with me?
Speaker 2: Where are you right now? Where are you in your life? Well?
Speaker 2: I'm here and i'm here, and you know I'm kind
Speaker 2: of crazy. And who told you that? Well, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm real defensive because where are you getting your narrative from?
Speaker 3: Because your inner narrative is actually dictating how you show
Speaker 3: up in life?
Speaker 4: So who told you that?
Speaker 3: Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten
Speaker 3: from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?
Speaker 2: Now? Remember this is the same Adam who looked at
Speaker 2: his bride and said, you are me girl. You all
Speaker 2: that right there?
Speaker 3: You me. He was so connected with her he didn't
Speaker 3: even give her a name, except to say, you are
Speaker 3: me with a womb.
Speaker 2: If I am man, you are a man with a womb,
Speaker 2: and we're.
Speaker 3: So connected, I don't even need to call you because
Speaker 3: you're right by my side.
Speaker 2: It goes from that to the woman whom you gave
Speaker 2: to be with me. She gave me of the tree
Speaker 2: and I ate. So then he goes to ask the woman, Okay,
Speaker 2: what did you do? And she said, the serpent deceived me,
Speaker 2: and I ate. We lose our peace when we are
Speaker 2: convinced that God is holding out on us.
Speaker 3: We lose our peace when we allow the enemy to
Speaker 3: make us think that God has put something off to
Speaker 3: the side that he don't want you to have, but
Speaker 3: he wants you to go get.
Speaker 2: So instead of being in a.
Speaker 3: Posture to receive from God, we are in a posture
Speaker 3: where we think we have to go get something from God.
Speaker 3: And when we turn from receivers to getters, we wind
Speaker 3: up going past the boundaries that God set for our lives.
Speaker 3: You got to remember the posture was Adam and Eve
Speaker 3: around on day one? Hello, We're they around on day two?
Speaker 3: Were they around on day three? Were they around on
Speaker 3: day four? Were they around on day five? They came
Speaker 3: on day six to something that was already built out
Speaker 3: for them. All they had to do was manage it.
Speaker 3: They didn't have to go get it. They received it.
Speaker 3: When we turn from receivers to getters, we go past
Speaker 3: boundaries that God has established. And I want to be
Speaker 3: in a position as a giver a giver of the
Speaker 3: things that I have received from him. So on this
Speaker 3: first week what's really going on is that some of
Speaker 3: us have been hiding in the bushes. The disruption of
Speaker 3: our peace has made us hide. It's made us cover
Speaker 3: up the stuff that he wants to leave uncovered. It's
Speaker 3: made us hide the things that he wants us to
Speaker 3: bring into the light. And we cannot be healed from
Speaker 3: what we do not reveal. You cannot get God to
Speaker 3: treat a thing that you won't bring into the light.
Speaker 3: And so on this first weekend, since we got so
Speaker 3: much time to be with each other over the next
Speaker 3: six weeks, I just want to call some people out
Speaker 3: of hiding, but asking the same exact question that Ada
Speaker 3: night Eloheim asked.
Speaker 2: In the garden today. Where are you? Where are you? Remember,
Speaker 2: He's not looking for you.
Speaker 3: He wants to know if you can locate yourself and
Speaker 3: be honest enough to say, I'm hiding something right now.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid for my spouse to see it. I'm afraid
Speaker 3: for my friends to know it. I'm afraid for my
Speaker 3: family to ever see me as something other than strong,
Speaker 3: something other than right. I'm a shamed My peers won't
Speaker 3: look at me the same. I'm a little bit nervous
Speaker 3: that they'll treat me differently if I were to come
Speaker 3: into the light, and if I were to let them
Speaker 3: see what I've been hiding, I don't know if they'll
Speaker 3: accept me. I don't want you to worry about none
Speaker 3: of them today. What matters today is your reconnection with God,
Speaker 3: Thank your Holy Ghost, even if it disconnects you from
Speaker 3: everybody else. There's some people in this room at the
Speaker 3: expense of being connected to God, you've disconnected to Him,
Speaker 3: so you could be connected to everybody else.
Speaker 2: And I'm here to tell you you want to switch
Speaker 2: that around.
Speaker 3: I'd I'd rather lose every relationship I have right now
Speaker 3: to be reconnected with God than to keep relationships.
Speaker 2: That are based on what I'm hiding and not what
Speaker 2: I'm showing. So in a moment we're about to pray,
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask the off.
Speaker 3: The team to come up at this time because I
Speaker 3: believe some people are about to come out of hiding.
Speaker 3: I believe there's some people that are come about to
Speaker 3: come out of the shrubs. There's some people that are
Speaker 3: but to come out of the bushes because they don't
Speaker 3: want to be held in bondage anymore. They want to shake, shake, shake,
Speaker 3: that they can break, break, break.
Speaker 2: On the other side of this hide is where you heal.
Speaker 2: On the other side of where you hide is where
Speaker 2: you heal.
Speaker 3: So Holy Spirit, I pray right now that you would
Speaker 3: not let shame arrest Adam and Eve any longer. I
Speaker 3: pray for every Adam and Eve in this room, and
Speaker 3: I thank you, Holy Spirit, that you are calling them
Speaker 3: back to relationship with you. Come out, Come out wherever
Speaker 3: you are at a night, Elohem wants to give you
Speaker 3: the covering that you truly need. The leaves.
Speaker 2: Thank your Holy Ghost. Leave the leaves. He's got a
Speaker 2: greater covering for you.
Speaker 3: The reason why Jesus could promise his peace because he
Speaker 3: shed his blood.
Speaker 2: And the only covering you'll ever need is the blood.
Speaker 2: It's the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: Draw your people, not for any man's credit, but all
Speaker 3: for your glory in Jesus' name. Hey man, if you're
Speaker 3: ready to come out from where you are, I just
Speaker 3: want you to meet me at the altar right now,
Speaker 3: from wherever you are.
Speaker 2: You're saying I need to come out from wherever you are.
Speaker 2: Just want you to come. I just want you to come.
Speaker 3: No clapping, no clapping, no clapping, because there was no
Speaker 3: clapping in the garden, there was no round of applause
Speaker 3: to give the person that decided to be seen decided
Speaker 3: to be heard. And so in the sacred space of
Speaker 3: this moment, we just want to let people come. I
Speaker 3: want you to come from wherever you are. I want
Speaker 3: you to come.
Speaker 2: I don't want you hiding anymore.
Speaker 3: I wish we could hard reset and be back to
Speaker 3: the place where we're naked and not ashamed. We cannot
Speaker 3: do that physically, but we can do that emotionally. We
Speaker 3: can do that relationally.
Speaker 2: We can do that spiritually.
Speaker 3: I no longer have to hide who I am in
Speaker 3: the presence of the Lord who made me. I get
Speaker 3: to be who he called me to be. And I
Speaker 3: want to be seen. I want to be heard. I
Speaker 3: want to be known, and I want to be loved.
Speaker 3: Even if I'm not agreed with I want to be seen.
Speaker 3: I want to be heard. I want to be known,
Speaker 3: and I want.
Speaker 2: To be loved.
Speaker 3: I'm not supposed to be in these bushes. I'm not
Speaker 3: supposed to be in these bush I'm meant to be out,
Speaker 3: but I keep acting like I'm supposed to be in.
Speaker 3: I'm coming out today. I'm coming out today. I'm coming
Speaker 3: out today. I'm coming out today. Come on, I'm coming
Speaker 3: out today. I'm not gonna stay where I am. I'm
Speaker 3: coming out today. I'm not gonna stay where I am.
Speaker 3: I'm coming out today. I don't care what relationship I
Speaker 3: have to lose. I gotta come out. I don't care
Speaker 3: who judges me. I have to come out. I cannot
Speaker 3: stay in the place, in the position that I have
Speaker 3: been in. I must come out. I must come out.
Speaker 3: I must come.
Speaker 2: Out. I must come out. Oh, I'm so proud of
Speaker 2: y'all for being this brave.
Speaker 3: You have no idea how happy I am for you.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I know what it is. I'll only
Speaker 3: preach stuff that I know. I only preach stuff that
Speaker 3: I've been through. And I'm telling you, I know what
Speaker 3: it is to be hiding things so ashamed that I
Speaker 3: think I need to hide, and God is saying no,
Speaker 3: you can just you can just put that out there.
Speaker 2: I can handle it. I can handle your nakedness because
Speaker 2: I'm the one.
Speaker 3: That created you naked. I know you don't want them
Speaker 3: to know, but please understand, I can know. I already
Speaker 3: know the question I'm asking you today is.
Speaker 2: Do you know where are you?
Speaker 4: Where are you?
Speaker 1: Where are.
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 3: You're gonna find yourself today, the real you. You're gonna
Speaker 3: find yourself, not the fake you, but the real you.
Speaker 3: You're gonna find yourself. You're gonna find yourself. You're gonna
Speaker 3: find yourself. You're gonna find yourself. You're gonna like who
Speaker 3: you become after this series. You're gonna like who you
Speaker 3: become after this You're gonna find yourself.
Speaker 2: You're gonna find yourself.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask everyone else that's here to just stand
Speaker 3: to your feet. Let's start praying for these people that
Speaker 3: are at this altar.
Speaker 2: Gonna ask the worship team to come.
Speaker 3: There may be somebody in this room you have not
Speaker 3: given your life to Jesus. You've been hiding since you
Speaker 3: were born. We were all born in sin. We were
Speaker 3: all shaping and iniquity. We came in having to be
Speaker 3: covered up. We came in disconnected from God, not because
Speaker 3: of anything that we did, just because of the fact.
Speaker 2: That we were born.
Speaker 3: We were born into sin, we were shaping in iniquity.
Speaker 3: But today might be the that you want to give
Speaker 3: your life to Jesus. Today might be that day that
Speaker 3: you want to reconnect to the Father that made you.
Speaker 3: And if that's you, we are so happy that you
Speaker 3: would choose today as your spiritual birthday. So if there's
Speaker 3: anybody in this room that you have never given your
Speaker 3: life to Jesus and you want to make today that day,
Speaker 3: I just want you to raise your hand. If that's you,
Speaker 3: I want to give my life to Jesus today. I
Speaker 3: see you, I see you, I see you. I want
Speaker 3: to give my life to Jesus today. You have no
Speaker 3: idea how easy salvation is. You have no idea how
Speaker 3: easy God made salvation. He made it so easy that
Speaker 3: he simply says that if you confess with your mouth
Speaker 3: that Jesus Lord, and.
Speaker 2: Believe in your heart that you will be saved. Believe
Speaker 2: in your.
Speaker 3: Heart that God raised him from the dead, you will
Speaker 3: be saved Romans ten nine. Father, God, I pray for
Speaker 3: every person who is given their life to Jesus. If
Speaker 3: you're watching online, I pray for every single person that's
Speaker 3: given their life to Jesus. God, I thank you that
Speaker 3: they find themselves in You today as they accept Jesus
Speaker 3: into their hearts. God, I pray right now in Jesus'
Speaker 3: name that their lives will never be the same as
Speaker 3: they repent, change their minds about the way that being thinking. God,
Speaker 3: I pray that their lives will never be the same
Speaker 3: in Jesus' name. If you've accepted Jesus, I just want
Speaker 3: you to pray this prayer with us. Let's do it
Speaker 3: as a family, shall we, Dear God, I admit I've
Speaker 3: been made. I admit I've made mistakes. I admit I
Speaker 3: need a savior. I asked that you change my heart
Speaker 3: to change my motives. I believe you lived, died, and
Speaker 3: rose again just for me. Please change me, renew me,
Speaker 3: and transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' names. Amen, Listen, listen.
Speaker 3: Adam and Eves getting free today. Some Adam and Eves
Speaker 3: getting free today. If you prayed that prayer, I just
Speaker 3: want you to text save to eighty two eighty two
Speaker 3: eighty two.
Speaker 2: And I want you to know that we're on a
Speaker 2: journey to find our missing peace.
Speaker 3: By the time this series is over, we are going
Speaker 3: to be the most calm regulated people that our families
Speaker 3: and friends.
Speaker 2: Have ever met in our lives. Because freedom is ours
Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. Amen,