WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome. Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.439 of inspiring, heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and speakers 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.480 all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast finds 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:22.960 you in good shit. And now here's your message. He's 5 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:32.119 gonna come up and let it red, brother, Rick. You 6 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:36.799 guys are a brave crowd. Amen. You guys are ready tonight. 7 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:42.799 We're excited to be here, right amen. Man, that worship 8 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:46.159 tonight was awesome. Right, come on, let's bless the Lord 9 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:50.880 for that right there. I love that. I love those 10 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:56.520 times of worship when suddenly it seems as though the 11 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.960 presence of the Lord fills the room and suddenly nothing 12 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.640 else matter. It's like I don't care who's speaking, I 13 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:06.239 don't care who's doing what. It's just good to be 14 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:09.840 in the presence of the Lord. Amen, Andrew, that was awesome, man, 15 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:13.239 Thank you so much. Thank you guys. And what's the 16 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:19.000 lady's name? That's sam huh, Amanda, whore's Amanda? Well this 17 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:23.040 she is over there. It's awesome, Amanda. Thank you. And 18 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:29.120 you know, many times we fail to adequately express our 19 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:33.439 appreciation that we should express to those people that weekend 20 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:37.840 service in service out give of themselves to lead us 21 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.519 into the presence of the Lord. And we just thank 22 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:44.000 you guys so much for that. And we're excited to 23 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:47.400 be in here tonight. And my wife is already up 24 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.680 in northern Kentucky with her mom, like Pastor Mark mentioned 25 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:54.599 a moment ago, So I'm here by myself tonight, and 26 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:58.319 that's kind of a scary thing, Amen, but we're glad 27 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:02.719 that she is there in her is just just is 28 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:07.040 in the process. Our mother's in final stages of of 29 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:13.800 uh of liver disease, and uh she's just really really 30 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:17.080 very ill. So we appreciate your prayer for her. And 31 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:20.719 and uh I miss Jennifer tonight. So uh uh here 32 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:24.039 we are. And so tonight we're gonna jump into this. 33 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:26.960 Uh here's what we're gonna do tonight. Kind of give 34 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.759 you a little outline so you can kind of keep 35 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:33.120 up with this process. Is that all right? And tonight 36 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.319 we're gonna begin by sharing with you a couple of stories. 37 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:39.080 We're gonna begin with a couple of stories. Then we're 38 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:41.599 gonna move into a scripture reference and I want to 39 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.800 give to you out of Jeremiah, and then we're gonna 40 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:48.439 come back and tell a couple more stories. Amen, on 41 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:51.879 Monday night. This is the eve of maybe one of 42 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:57.439 America's most significant elections, and tonight, I know we've worshiped 43 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:03.120 and we prayed, but right now, let's just intentionally target 44 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:08.319 this election and ask Holy Spirit to move in this 45 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:13.280 moment of time and shift this nation for the glory 46 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:18.919 of God. We're not looking for either candidate who tomorrow night, 47 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:22.439 if all goes well, one of them is going to 48 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.719 end up being our president elect. But we know tonight 49 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.800 that it's the glory of God. It's the manifest glory 50 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:31.360 of God that we need that's going to turn our 51 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:34.280 nation around. And so we just want to really pray. 52 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.960 So just join with me a minute, and let's just 53 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.840 target this thing right here. Come on, intercessors in the house, 54 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:45.759 just begin to release, right now, Just begin to release 55 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:49.400 right now in this room. Father, we just ask you tonight, 56 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.919 Oh God, be merciful to America. Be merciful, Oh God, 57 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:58.960 to America. Again. God, let thy grace shine upon this nation. 58 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:06.120 See to see. Release the manifest glory of your presence. 59 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:12.240 Release the manifest glory of your presence. Release that, Oh God, tonight, 60 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:18.120 release it. Father, I pray tonight that this room, on 61 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:28.959 this Monday night, would be a room for encounters. Come on, 62 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.480 let's just stay engaged right there a minute in prayer. Father, 63 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:38.920 we just pray right now for encounters of the Holy Spirit. Father, 64 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.480 I pray that you would teach us God, how to 65 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:47.480 steward the things that you've deposited into our lives. Teach 66 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:53.680 us how to steward them. Teach us how to steward them. Father, 67 00:04:53.759 --> 00:05:00.759 we pray tonight for all over this nation. Father, tonight, 68 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:03.600 I know that there are people that have been meeting 69 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:08.240 in the nation's capital for three days. Think of it. 70 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:11.000 I know a group of leaders who have been meeting 71 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:16.319 in the nation's capital for three days, praying and interceding 72 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:19.879 coming into this election. I saw them the other night 73 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:25.360 as they were posting pictures off of the speaker's balcony 74 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:30.920 at the nation's capital, interceding over the nation. So, Father, 75 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:35.360 we come into agreement with every intercessor and pastor and 76 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:39.519 leader in our nation. Father that's crying out for God 77 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:44.120 to be merciful to America. God forgive us for abortion. 78 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:52.319 Forgive us, God forgive us for the shedding of innocent blood. God, 79 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:57.480 would you released upon us tonight, Father, the hope of 80 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:02.879 an encounter, the hop hop of an encounter. And Father, tonight, 81 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:06.240 I pray that as we minister tonight, as we as 82 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:10.240 we share some stories tonight and encourage the people, I 83 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.600 pray Father that somehow that we would all begin to 84 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:18.240 realize that it's time we take our play. That Father, 85 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:22.160 an encounter is not for a few, but Lord, you 86 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:26.399 have designed an encounter for every person in this room. 87 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:31.240 That we might encounter the manifest glory of the presence 88 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.920 of God, and our lives will be radically changed as 89 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:39.279 a consequence of our encountering you. Come on, just stay 90 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:43.040 engage here for a moment. Father. We pray that you 91 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.439 would allow us to learn from history, allow us to 92 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:52.600 learn from those who have gone before us. God, we 93 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:56.279 pray for those in our memory. We thank you for 94 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.759 those who have gone before us, and Lord, we thank 95 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:03.920 you for those who are coming after us. And Lord, 96 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.639 do we ask you tonight, Father, that you would somehow 97 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:11.040 let us be the bridge between what was and what 98 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:19.000 will be. Step into this moment of time and show us, Father, 99 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.879 what it is that you would have us do. God, 100 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:30.120 reveal your glory. Father, release miracles in this room. Release 101 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:36.480 healings in this room. Father, Come on, somebody. Father, we're 102 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:39.399 asking you tonight, Father, not for the touch of the 103 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:43.040 hand of man. We're asking you for a touch from heaven. Tonight. 104 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:50.160 We're asking you, Father for that. Release that in this room. 105 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:54.800 Release that in this room. Come on, let's pray for 106 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:58.720 Kentucky right now. I know we've got pastors in this room. 107 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:02.839 Leaders in this room. We thank you Father. We thank 108 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:06.000 you Father. For those that are here from Corvin and 109 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:11.399 Manchester and Barberville and Glasgow and others surrounding areas, we 110 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:16.560 thank you for them, Father, And we pray tonight for Kentucky. 111 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:23.519 We prayed for Kentucky. Turn the heart of the commonwealth. 112 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:34.519 Let Kentucky become a play of encounters. Let Kentucky become 113 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:39.879 a play of revivals and moves of the spirit. Let 114 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:44.000 Kentucky become a play where the harvest is being one. 115 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.320 We bind a spirit of drug addiction, We bind a 116 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.879 spirit of alcoholism, we bind a spirit of abuse. Off 117 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:59.159 of this off of this state. In the name of Jesus, Father, 118 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:04.639 released the fire of your holy Spirit, Release the fire 119 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:05.759 of your olation. 120 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:29.759 H m hmm, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. 121 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:43.399 H Okay, here we go you all ready, here we 122 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.600 go tonight. I want to begin by telling you a 123 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.600 couple of stories. Uh, tonight. The purpose for telling the 124 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:54.879 stories that I'm being, that I'm telling to you is 125 00:09:54.919 --> 00:10:01.960 to bring you to a hopeful conclusion. The intent tonight 126 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:06.679 of this message is to bring us to the place, 127 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:11.679 every one of us, to the place of a single 128 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:20.360 hopeful conclusion, and that is that we can encounter him. 129 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:27.399 He wants to encounter us, that our lives will be 130 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:31.840 radically changed, and that we will no longer be the same. 131 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:38.919 We are living in critical pivotal days, not just of 132 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:47.840 national history, but of global history. Nations tonight arerielling in 133 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:54.519 a spirit of chaos and compromise and confusion, and people 134 00:10:54.639 --> 00:11:01.120 all over the world tonight are hungry to encounter the 135 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:07.519 Holy living Sovereign of the universe. I was raised in 136 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:09.639 the church, been in the church all of my life. 137 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.240 I was raised in the Church of the Nazarene. My 138 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.360 father was an alcoholic. My father was a drug addict. 139 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.919 My father died at the age of forty. My father 140 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:26.759 was hugely abusive to my mother. I've got four brothers. 141 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.320 There were five of us, and my father never heard 142 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.159 any of us as far as I know, but the 143 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.240 things that I saw him do to my mother were 144 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:41.919 absolutely unconscionable. I began to realize that in my home 145 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:47.000 two worlds were being lived out before me. My mother 146 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:50.759 kept my brothers and Eye in church, and she would 147 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:53.440 tell us. And my mother was one of those mothers 148 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:56.879 like many other of you whose mother may have been 149 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:01.240 the same as mine. My mother knew that she must 150 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:06.159 keep us boys in church because it's not just about 151 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:09.519 going to church and getting the Sunday school pen that 152 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:12.759 we used to have in Sunday school, her faithful attendance, 153 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.240 But it's because in the place of worship and in 154 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.559 the place of celebration, in the place of the ecclesia, 155 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:26.840 it is the most most ripe place to encounter the 156 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:32.159 Holy Sovereign of the universe. Now, my brothers and I, 157 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.919 I grew up with a horrific fear of my father 158 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:40.279 all of my life. I would grow when I was 159 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:45.720 growing up, my teeth would chatter so bad because I 160 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:49.120 was afraid all the time of him. If you look 161 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:51.120 at pictures at me when I was a little boy, 162 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:56.360 my teeth were literally chiseled down to knobs in my 163 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:01.759 mouth because my teeth were always chattering just like this. 164 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:06.759 At night, when my father would come home, my mother 165 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:10.200 would rescue the five of us boys. She would take 166 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:13.519 us out our bedroom window. She would take us across 167 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:17.039 the street and down two houses, where she would pull 168 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:20.879 us like a mother. Hen would pull her brooding chicks 169 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.279 up under the bushes of a neighbor's house. And we 170 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.639 would sleep under the bushes of the neighbor's house, and 171 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:31.159 they never knew we were there. My mother kept a 172 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:34.799 quilt that my grandmother made. It's the same grandmother that 173 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:39.039 pastored her and my grandfather, my mama, and my papall 174 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.600 pastored here. He's the only man that ever had as 175 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:45.399 a little boy who would take his big old hands. 176 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.600 He was a painter by day and a preacher on 177 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:51.519 the weekend, but he would take his big old hands 178 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:55.399 and he would crown my head and pray that God 179 00:13:55.679 --> 00:14:00.200 would move in my life. My mother would pull us 180 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.320 out the bedroom window. We would go under the bushes 181 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.919 of the neighbor's house. She kept a quilt beside the 182 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:10.399 bush that was that was my grandmother made for us. 183 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.039 She made the quilt and quote and hands stitched on it. 184 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:17.639 Bible verses on this old quilt. My mother would pull 185 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.240 it out and she would throw this quilt out over 186 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:27.519 her five sons. She would say to us things like this, boys, 187 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:33.799 God knows where we are, and where we are we 188 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:40.440 will not always be. She would tell us ridiculous thing. 189 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.440 She would tell us that God is alive, He's not dead. 190 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:47.759 She would tell us that God is not red words 191 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:50.919 on white paper, he's not black words on white paper. 192 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:55.240 But he's the living, breathing, smelling God. And he will 193 00:14:55.279 --> 00:15:00.440 come and he will rescue us. Mother. Always he took 194 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:03.720 us to church. My mother was faithful to her church. 195 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:11.840 Praise God. Amen. Faithful. For my mother meant if the 196 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:18.799 doors were open, Honey, we were there. Amen, it's okay 197 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:21.679 to still say that. Right, That's the way she was. 198 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:25.080 And we would sit in that pew and I would 199 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:31.679 hear my pastor, a man from Breathfatt County, Kentucky, would 200 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:34.480 stand in the pulpit and he would begin to preach 201 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:38.039 to us the word of the Lord. There's a little boy. 202 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:40.320 I'd sit in the chair. I would hear him tell 203 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.360 the stories of the Bible, and I would begin to say, 204 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.360 if God is so big, why doesn't he keep my 205 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:51.679 mother from getting beaten up. My mother was the pianist 206 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:55.720 of my church from the time I was born, and 207 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:00.279 she's still the pianist in the very same church. She 208 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.879 sat on the pew, and she sat on that piano 209 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:09.399 bench all of my life. And I saw her many 210 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.320 Sunday mornings, get up on the keyboard, get up on 211 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.759 the piano, and she would begin to play the piano 212 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.159 on a Sunday morning with two black eyes she had 213 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.120 just gotten the night before. And my pastor wouldn't get 214 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.840 up and preach about the power of God, and I 215 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:28.480 would begin to say, if God is so powerful, why 216 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:33.279 can't he keep my mother from getting beaten us. I 217 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:36.480 saw my mother. I saw my father take his fist 218 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:39.080 and knock her to the floor like a full grown man. 219 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:44.559 I saw much more in my life that I have 220 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.679 the courage to share with you tonight. But the bottom 221 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:51.559 line is my mother infused in us a hope that 222 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.639 God is bigger than the church. We love the church, 223 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:58.600 but we must encounter him. The church should be a 224 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:02.639 place of encounter, should be a place where we come 225 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:06.720 and we know with expectant hearts, God is going to 226 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:10.680 meet with us. And when he comes, no telling what 227 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:16.240 might happen when he comes, no telling what might happen. 228 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:20.119 I've had a thousand men laid their hands on me, 229 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:24.200 and some things never change. But I've had him touch 230 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.799 to me in a moment and everything changed. 231 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:29.359 Huh. 232 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:33.480 And my mother would say, God coming, he's coming, boys, 233 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:37.960 he's coming, He's coming. We go to church. Church people 234 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:41.799 sometimes can say the dumbest things in the world. Amen, 235 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:43.440 go ahead and say it. Brother. They say, Amen, it's 236 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:46.839 all right. They just can't my mother come to church. 237 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.279 And you know what, my Daddy. I only saw my 238 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:54.319 father ever give my mother one gift. One year, one Christmas, 239 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:56.960 he gave her a gift. Christmas was a big deal 240 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.519 at our house because Daddy tried to make up and 241 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:05.480 sixty five days in one day. Christmas was amazing at 242 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:09.119 our house, except the year he gave my mother the 243 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:11.680 only gift I ever saw him give her. And the 244 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.200 gift that he gave her was a beautifully wrapped gold 245 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:21.599 foil boss with an amazing red red bow on top 246 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.200 of it that we knew. 247 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:26.599 He didn't tie that it was beautiful. 248 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:31.880 We couldn't wait, My brothers and I waited for all 249 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:37.960 of Christmas to see my mother open one box when 250 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.319 she did. The insight of the box was a picture 251 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:45.839 of him and his girlfriend and a little boy that 252 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.519 they had born to him that year, and I saw 253 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.720 my mother's heart melt like wax again on the floor. 254 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:58.759 My mother would say, lois, listen to me. God's book come, 255 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:03.160 God's book comes, God's gonna come. Listen to me. My 256 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:06.000 mother many wonderful things she did in my life, but 257 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:08.079 one of the things that she tried to infuse in 258 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.160 us is a love for him, greater gonna love for 259 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.759 the church. Hello, he love the church. She's there all 260 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.640 the time, you understand. But but the church is a 261 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:23.000 place of encounter. And my mother said, boys, God's coming. 262 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.359 He knows where we are, don't you worry. The whole 263 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:29.359 time we were kids, I was like, where is he? Why? 264 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:31.960 If God can speak, why don't he have anything to 265 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:35.680 say about what I'm going through? And maybe there's been 266 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:40.359 somebody here, Donna, y'all right, now, y'all look like you 267 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:43.240 ain't never been through anything in your whole life. I 268 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:45.240 don't even know why I'm telling this story right here, 269 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.759 but it's just like from my mother, say, boy, God's 270 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.079 gonna come. And the whole time my teeth were chattering. 271 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:54.799 I was literally beating my teeth out of my head 272 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:57.920 because I had so much fear. I never will forget 273 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.839 today that my mother was standing in the kitchen sink. 274 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:02.799 It was a little bit of the old kitchen sink. 275 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:06.079 We lived in a house that was one bedroom. It 276 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:09.000 was probably about eight hundred square feet. We could stand 277 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:11.440 in our kitchen. As teenage boys, we could stand in 278 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.799 our kitchen and touch from wall to wall in the kitchen, 279 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:16.839 and it was just a little bit of the old house. 280 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:20.079 I never had a friend. I never had a friend 281 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.279 that knew the house that I really grew up in. 282 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:24.799 I had a house out in the set division picked 283 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:28.319 out my kids would take my friends would take me home. 284 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:30.720 I'd have them take me to that house, and then 285 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:32.480 I'd tell them, you'd better drop me off at the 286 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:35.440 end of this big, long, winding driveway. My daddy don't 287 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:37.880 like company, so y'all just let me out there here 288 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:40.799 and I'll walk on us the driveway. So they'd leave 289 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:43.200 me out. I'd let them get outside and i'd be 290 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:45.480 out of that neighborhood. But they caught me ben somewhere. 291 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.759 I wasn't supposed to be amen. Y'all y'all all right. No, 292 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:50.799 I don't know whether y'all or not all right or 293 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.680 not right. And so, but one day my mother was 294 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:55.359 standing in the sink. There was a little bit of 295 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:58.240 the old kitchen sink. Man. She's standing there. My father 296 00:20:58.359 --> 00:21:00.920 comes to the front door behind her. He never sees 297 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.720 her when he comes through the door. His five sons 298 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:06.279 were in the living room. We immediately saw him come 299 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:09.880 in with everyone without saying a word, just begin to 300 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:12.759 back up against the wall, and we all five of 301 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:17.079 us froze up against the wall when he walked in. 302 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:22.000 He walked past his five sons, never acknowledging any of 303 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:24.759 us was there. He walked up to my mother in 304 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.640 the kitchen. He pulled out he had a hawk bill knife, 305 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:31.480 which is an electricians knife, in his left hand, and 306 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:34.000 he had a thirty eight revolver in his right hand. 307 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:37.000 And he walked up to my mother and he stood 308 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.200 there and he lowered that revolver down at the base 309 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:43.160 of the skull of her head, and he began to 310 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:45.920 call her by name, and he began to call her 311 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:52.319 some names. She is not. He began to say, you blanked, 312 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:55.200 he blanked six, said make nine tens because I want 313 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:58.720 to testing church. You blinked blank six said make nine tens. 314 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:02.640 I'm gonna kill you. My mother never knew he was 315 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:06.480 there until he began to scream with her. My brothers 316 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:09.319 and I were just watching like this. We had seen 317 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:13.039 similar scenes unfold, I don't know how many times, but 318 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:16.279 we were just watching them again as an unfold. The 319 00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:19.599 only sound among us was the teeth that were clattering 320 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:23.319 in my head. My brothers today still talk about and 321 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:25.920 make fun of me because the clattering of the teeth 322 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:29.400 in my head. And we were sitting there and my 323 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:32.680 mother he put that gun on the base of her neck, 324 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:35.279 and then all of a sudden, I'd never seen her 325 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:38.079 good before, and I've never seen her good since she 326 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:41.640 was a little video Nazarene lady. She still is and 327 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:46.799 and she don't play around with stuff. But she laid 328 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:49.880 her dish rag across the edge of the thing, and 329 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:52.720 she spun around to my father and she put her 330 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:55.720 finger on the tip of his nose, and she called 331 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:58.480 him by name. I heard her do something that night. 332 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:02.519 I've never seen hurt her do before, nor sense, but 333 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:06.039 it changed my life in a moment. It changed my life. 334 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:09.640 In a moment, she turned she put his finger her 335 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:12.720 finger on the tip of his nose, and she said, Harry, 336 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:15.720 I reduced you in the name of the Lord Jesus 337 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:19.440 Christ of Nadath. You cannot hurt me, and you will 338 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:25.200 not hurt my boy. When she said that, he hit 339 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:29.160 the floor like I did in this I'm telling you, 340 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:32.440 if I had an armful of bricks and dropped them 341 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:35.880 right now, he would not have hit the floor any harder. 342 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:38.599 And when he hit the floor, I can't explain it. 343 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:41.400 But when he hit the floor, he was cold, sober, 344 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:44.680 and he was paralyzed, and he couldn't move a muscle, 345 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:47.839 and he began to beg, my mother, take this fell 346 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:52.119 off of me? What have you done to me? I 347 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:57.759 can't move. Here's Ricky over on the wall. I looked 348 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:00.920 to my brothers this way, and I looked at my 349 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:04.559 brothers that way, and I was like, cool, right therefore, 350 00:24:05.319 --> 00:24:09.559 that was bad right there. Ricky liked some of that 351 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:14.119 right there. You may understand it and you may not, 352 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:17.519 But all five of my brothers we came off the 353 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:21.160 wall and we started dancing in that little kitchen for 354 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:24.359 the first time in our lives. God was no longer 355 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:28.200 a Sunday school lesson. God was no longer a preacher 356 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:32.680 a sermon, but God was a living, breathing, smelling sovereign 357 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:36.160 of the universe. And He had come to my home 358 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:42.960 to encounter us, that we might encounter him in a 359 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:48.599 moment of revelation that might sum up in a moment 360 00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:54.880 what my pastor had taught to me all of my life. 361 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:59.799 He may not come when you want him, but he 362 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:08.880 will come. Nonetheless, He's coming. He's coming. He's coming. People 363 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:11.440 at the church, you said, tell my mother, you know 364 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:14.079 some of your boys are gonna end up just like 365 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:21.000 their daddy. Don't you why that's worth going to church? Forward? 366 00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:25.799 Right there? Whoa get there and tell you your boy. 367 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:28.279 You know you boys gonna end up a drunk, don't you. 368 00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:30.440 You know you boys gonna end up a horrormonger. Right? 369 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:32.799 You know, you boy's gonna end up on drugs, right, 370 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:37.000 you know that's gonna happen. My father, my grandfather, was 371 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.759 the sheriff of Madison County. My father was a deputy. 372 00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:45.400 Remember one Father's Day, he was in the Madison County 373 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.480 jail with my brothers and I made him a great 374 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:51.160 biggld birthday card and we stood outside of the Madison 375 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:56.359 count of jail, walking up to the streets hoping he 376 00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:59.480 can see the Father's Day card that we made for him. 377 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:02.799 His life was messed up. Man. He was a good man. 378 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:05.039 When he was sober, he'd give you the shirt off 379 00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:07.759 of his back, but when he was drunkard ripping off 380 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:12.440 of you and anything else you had. But my point 381 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:17.880 is this God lapped out of the book, and for 382 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:20.480 the first time in my life, I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 383 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.400 This thing just went to a whole nother level right there. 384 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:30.200 This thing just went to a whole other level. You want. 385 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:36.799 From that day till tonight, I know my hunger to 386 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:41.759 encounter him has been the greatest hunger of my life, 387 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:44.799 my hunger for My mother said to me the other day, 388 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:46.880 she said, when we was talking about revival, I shared 389 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:48.839 it with you the other morning when when my mother 390 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:51.839 said to me, she said, Ricky, you have desired to 391 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:57.279 encounter God all of your life. I was like, that's 392 00:26:57.319 --> 00:27:01.279 what I want, that one encounter, that moment begin to 393 00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:05.759 shift my entire life. By the way, by the way, 394 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:10.640 my father died at age forty, my breath at County 395 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:14.519 Pastor read into the Lord two weeks before before he died. 396 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.319 I believe my dad is in heaven. To that though, 397 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.680 that's really hard for me to say. It's really hard 398 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:25.480 for me to say, really hard for me to say, 399 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:31.359 But I believe it. I believe that God saved it. 400 00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:34.519 Isn't that amazing God forgave him of all of his sin? 401 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:40.000