The Beloved Community: Love, Truth, and Resurrection

``You know, that that I'm still thinking about that song. I I'm gonna get to preach in a minute, but that song said, I stayed in that grave too long. I stayed in there too long. Come on now. I was waiting for somebody to come set me free. I was waiting for somebody to come lift me up. I stayed in there too long. When all I had to do was walk out. All I had to do was walk out. All I had to do was listen to the call and walk out of my sickness, walk out of my pain, walk out of my situation. It's time out for waiting for somebody else to rescue you. [00:37:39] (57 seconds)  #WalkOutNow

I was waiting for somebody to come set me free. I was waiting for somebody to come lift me up. I stayed in there too long. When all I had to do was walk out. All I had to do was walk out. All I had to do was listen to the call and walk out of my sickness, walk out of my pain, walk out of my situation. [00:37:58] (30 seconds)  #AnswerTheCall

The lord was showing me about when he says, acknowledge me. He was saying to me one day, he said, that means I want you to turn your attention to me. And he was telling me this because I was having I was struggling, you know, with the coughing and and everything and and and nervous kind of things. I I call them nervous things. Yeah. Just like that. And the lord was showing me. He was saying he was saying, whenever you feel that, it means your soul is hungry. [00:43:50] (38 seconds)  #SoulIsHungry

It's important to know where you're going, where you're coming from. It's important to know what truth is because without that, you start to get weary going back and forth, back and forth, tossed to and fro all the time. But when you know truth and you keep your eyes on truth, then you can be strong no matter what winds are blowing. [00:48:29] (29 seconds)  #KeepEyesOnTruth

You know, he has he has really deal with me a lot because, you know, I I don't do it alright. And so what I tend to do is when I have a good day, I go celebrate. Amen. And when I celebrate, I don't read. I don't pray. I just kinda like, I think I'm gonna celebrate. I'm a watch a movie. Next thing I know, I'm in a mess. Because I've turned my attention away from him in order to celebrate. You see what's there's something he's trying to teach me. There's something wrong with that. Come on. We celebrate god's victory by turning away from god. There's something wrong. There's something wrong with that. Okay. [00:50:13] (46 seconds)  #CelebrateWithGod

So that word is truth. And we're talking about my truth and your truth. And the problem is because when because we have an adversary, eventually, the adversary will get me, watch this, to turn my truth into a justification for whatever I want to do. Because I can call whatever I want to do truth. And that's the most dangerous thing. [00:51:00] (35 seconds)  #TruthNotJustification

See, when your truth becomes justification for whatever you want to do, then there's no restriction to the evil that you may be involved in. And this is listen, this is the time to stay real close to god. This is the time to stay in the truth. This is a time whenever you have a decision to make to start seeking God. Learn to seek God for every decision, for every every need, every situation. Learn to go to God, and you'll stay on the right path. [00:53:44] (48 seconds)  #SeekGodEveryDecision

A few weeks ago, when I was talking to you, I called it I called it a new race from Ephesians chapter two. Doctor King called it the beloved community. A world where god is empowering people to resist their flesh and love one another. You have to resist your flesh in order to keep loving people. Because your flesh wants what it wants. Amen. And and your you know, if you get in the flesh, you can actually use scripture to justify doing what you wanna do. Come on now. Y'all looking at me like that. [00:56:05] (54 seconds)  #BelovedCommunity